NABHAKA
KANWA
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1. To Fire I give laud, the possessor
of the illumined word, to worship the Fire with the speech of revelation;
let the Fire reveal the gods to us, for he is the seer who goes on his
embassy between the two worlds in the knowledge, — let all that are hostile
be rent asunder.
2. O Fire, destroy with a new word
the expression of these within in the bodies, destroy within us the beings
hostile to those who give thee, let all the enemy forces, the hostile
spirits depart from here who would do hurt to us, — let all that are hostile
be rent asunder.
3. O Fire, to thee I offer my thoughts as
if an offering of light1 cast into thy mouth; so do thou awake to
knowledge in the gods, for thou art the ancient and benign messenger of the
Sun, —let all that are alien be rent asunder.
4. He founds growth upon growth of the
being even as one2 desires; offered the oblation of offered
energy for every call to the gods he founds both the peace and the movement
of the Shining Ones, he founds the bliss, — let all that are
¹Ghṛtam,
clarified butter or light.
²Or,
he
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alien be rent asunder.
5. He awakes to knowledge by his forceful
and many-sided works; he is the Priest of the call of many powers surrounded
by lights of discernment and he takes possession of all that faces him, —
let all that are alien be rent asunder.
6. The Fire knows the births of the
gods and the secret thing of mortals; this is the Fire that gives the
treasures, the Fire when there is cast into him as offering that is new
uncovers the hidden doors, — let all that are alien be rent asunder.
7. Fire is the companion dwelling in the
gods, dwelling in the beings who are masters of sacrifice; he increases by
his rapture many seer-wisdoms, even as all that is large, he is a god in
the gods and a lord of sacrifice, — let all that are alien be rent asunder.
8. Fire is the sevenfold human, he is
lodged in all the rivers; to him we have come, the dweller in the triple
abode, the Fire of the thinker, slayer of the Destroyers, ancient and
supreme in the sacrifices, — let all that are alien be rent asunder.
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9. Fire is the seer who takes up his
dwelling in his three abodes . of knowledge of three kinds; may he sacrifice
to the Three and Thirty and satisfy us, perfected, the illumined thinker and
messenger, — let all that are alien be rent asunder.
10. O ancient and supreme Fire, thou art in
us who are mortals, thou in the gods, one and sole thou rulest over the
Treasures; around thee the wide-flowing waters go each with its own bridge,
— let all that are alien be rent asunder.
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1. O Indra, O Fire, forceful you give
to us the treasure by which we shall overcome in our battles even all that
is firm and strong, as Fire the trees in a wind, — let all that are alien be
rent asunder.
2. May we not shut you away from us, then
may we truly worship Indra with sacrifice, the god most potent of the gods;
may he sometime come to us with the war-horse, may he come to us for the
winning of the plenitudes, for the winning of the purity,¹ — let
all that are alien be rent asunder.
¹Or,
for the getting of sacrifices,
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3. For they, Indra and Fire, dwell in
the midst of mellays; gods, seers, questioned, they by their seerhood gain for
one who seeks their friendship the knowledge won by the thought, — let all that
are alien be rent asunder.
4. To Indra and the Fire sing the
illumined chant even as Nabhaka, doing them homage with sacrifice and speech,
whose is all this world and this heaven and great earth bear for them in their
lap the treasures, — let all that are alien be rent asunder.
5. Even as Nabhaka direct towards
Indra and Fire the Words who uncovered the sea of the seven foundations with its
dim¹ doors, — even Indra ruling all by his might, — let all that are
alien be rent asunder.
6. Even as of old cleave like
clustering mass of a creeper, crush the might of the demon; that wealth amassed
by him may we by Indra share, — let all that are alien be rent asunder.
7. When, O Indra, O Fire, these who
are here call you with speech and act, may we overcome by our men those who
battle against us, may we conquer those who would conquer us, — let all that are
alien be rent asunder.
¹Or,
oblique
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8. White gods are they who from below
ascend to the heavens by their lights; according to the law of the working of
Indra and Fire, flowing move the Rivers whom they loosed from bondage to every
side, — let all that are alien be rent asunder.
9. O Indra, O thou of the bright horses, O
begetter of the shining hero, the shooter who strikes into his mark, many are
thy measurings of things, many thy expressions of the truth which accomplish¹
our thoughts, — let all that are alien be rent asunder.
10. Intensify him by your purifications,
the brilliant warrior with the illumined word, even him who with might breaks
the serpent-eggs of Shushna, may he conquer the waters that bear the light of
the Sun-world, — let all that are alien be rent asunder.
11. Intensify him who is perfect in the
rite of the path, the true warrior who follows the law of the Truth; it is he
who observes, who breaks the serpent-eggs of Shushna, conquers the waters that
bear the light of the Sun-world, — let all that are alien be rent asunder.
¹Or
bring to perfection
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12. So has the new word been spoken
to Indra and to Fire, even as by my father, by Mandhata, by the Angiras; protect
us with triple peace, may we be masters of the riches.
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VIRUPA ANGIRASA
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1. Him pray our words, even these
lauds of Fire, the illumined seer, the creator, invincible in his sacrifice.
2. Such art thou for whom I bring to
birth perfect laud and glad is thy response, O seeing Fire, O knower of all
things born!
3. Oh, like jets of light thy keen
energies of flame devour with their teeth the woods.
4. Bright, with smoke for their flag
against heaven, urged by the winds, labour separate thy fires.
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5. These are those separate fires of
thine that kindled are seen , like rays of the Dawns.
6. Black is the dust under his feet in the
march of the knower of all things born when Fire sprouts upon the earth.
7. Making his foundation, consuming the
herbs Fire wearies not but goes even to the young shoots.
8. Oh, laying all low with his tongues of
flame, flashing out with his ray Fire shines in the woodlands.
9. In the waters, O Fire, is thy
seat,¹ thou besiegest the plants; thou becomest a child in the womb
and art born again.
10. O Fire, that ray of thine fed
with the oblation rises up shining from the offering of light,²
licking the mouth of the ladle.
¹Or,
goal,
²Or,
clarified butter,
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11. May we ordain sacrifice with the lauds
to Fire, the ordainer of things. Fire who makes the ox and the cow his food and
he bears on his back the Soma-wine.
12. O Fire, we come to thee with
prostration and with the fuel, O Priest of the call, O supreme will!
13. O pure Flame, fed with offerings
we call thee as did Bhrigu, as did Manu, as did Angiras.
14. For thou art kindled, O Fire, by the
fire, thou who art the illumined seer art kindled by one who is illumined, as a
comrade thou art kindled by thy comrade.
15. So do thou to the illumined who
gives to thee give the thousandfold wealth and the hero-force.
16. O Fire, my brother, created by my
force, drawn by thy red horses, pure in the law of thy workings, take pleasure
in this laud of mine.
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17. My lauds reach thee, O Fire, as
to the calf lowing in glad response the cows reach their stall.
18. For thee, O most luminous Angiras, all
those worlds of happy dwelling, each in its separate power, labour for thy
desire, O Flame.
19. In thinkers the wise, the
illumined seers urged by their thoughts the Fire to dwell in their house.
20. So thee as the horse in its
gallopings performing the pilgrim-sacrifice, O Fire, they desire as the carrier
of the offering and the Priest of the call.
21. Thou art the lord who looks with equal
eyes on all the peoples in many lands; we call to thee in our battles.
22. Pray the Fire who fed with the
pouring of the clarities blazed wide; may he hear this our call.
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23. Such art thou whom we call. Fire, the
knower of all things born who hears our cry and smites away from us the foe.
24. I pray this Fire, the marvellous king
of the peoples who presides over the laws of their action, may he hear.
25. Fire who illumines the universal
life like a male horse urged to its gallop, we speed like a racer to the goal.
26. Smiting away the foes and things
that hurt, burning the Rakshasas, on every side, O Fire, shine out with thy keen
flame.
27. Thou whom men kindle as the human
thinker,¹ O most luminous Angiras, O Fire, become aware of my word.
28. Because, O Fire, created by our force
thou art the flame born in heaven, or the flame born in the waters, as such we
call thee with our words.
¹Or,
like Manu,
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29. To thee, verily, these beings
born and these worlds of a happy dwelling each separately in its place, lay a
foundation where thou canst devour thy food.¹
30. O Fire, may we be those who have the
right thought and the divine vision, and through all the days, pass safe beyond
the danger.
31. We seek with rapturous hearts
Fire, the rapturous, in whom are many things that are dear to us, —Fire with his
intense and purifying light.
32. O Fire, shining with thy light,
loosing forth thy lustre like the sun with its rays, thou puttest forth thy
force and slayest the darknesses.
33. We seek from thee, O forceful
Fire, that gift of thine, — the desirable wealth which never fails.
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¹Or,
cast nourishment for thy eating.
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1. Set to his action by the fuel,
awaken the guest by the offerings of the clarities; cast in him the offerings.
2. O Fire, take pleasure in my laud,
grow by this thought; let thy joy respond to our utterances.
3. I set in front Fire, the
messenger, and speak to the carrier of the offerings; may he bring to their
session here the gods.
4. O luminous Fire, vast and bright thy
rays upwards ascend as thou art kindled high.
5. O joyful Flame, to thee may my
ladles go bright with the clarities; O Fire, take pleasure in our offerings.
6. I pray the Fire, the rapturous
Priest of the call, the sacrificant, shining with his light, rich in his lustres,
may he hear.
7. The ancient Priest of the call, desirable and accepted. Fire the seer-will,
joiner of the pilgrim-rites.
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8. O most luminous Angiras, taking
pleasure in these offerings lead the sacrifice uninterruptedly in the way of the
Truth,¹ O Fire.
9. High-kindled, O Right and True, O
brilliant light, awakened to knowledge bring here the divine people.
10. The illumined seer and Priest of
the call, free from harms, shining with light, carrying his banner of smoke, him
we seek, the ray of intuition of the sacrifices.
11. O Fire, made by our force,
protect us against the doers of harm, pierce the hostile power.
12. Fire by the ancient thought
making beautiful his own body, a seer, grows by each illumined sage.
13. I call to me the Child of Energy,
Fire of the purifying light in this sacrifice which is perfect rite of the path.
¹Or,
according to the rule of the rites,
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14. So do thou, O Fire, O friendly
light, with thy brilliant flame sit with the gods on the sacred grass.
15. The mortal who serves the divine Fire
in the house of the body, to him he gives the Riches.
16. Fire is the head and peak of
heaven and lord of earth and he sets moving the waters.
17. O Fire, upward dart blazing thy
pure and brilliant tongues; make to shine out thy lights.
18. Thou art the lord of the Sun-world, O
Fire, and hast power for the gifts desirable; may I who laud thee abide in thy
peace.
19. Thee, O Fire, the thinkers urge on thy
road, thee by their perceivings of knowledge; may our words increase thee.
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20. We choose the comradeship of the
Fire inviolate in the law of his. nature, the ever-chanting messenger.
21. Most pure in his workings is the
Fire, he is the pure illumined sage, the pure seer of Truth; pure he shines out
fed by our offerings.
22. So thee may my thinkings and my words
increase always; . O Fire, awake to the comradeship between us.
23. O Fire, if I wert thou and thou wert I,
then would thy longings here become true.
24. O Fire, thou art the shining one,
shining with thy lustres, lord of the shining riches; may we abide in thy right
thinking.¹
25. O Fire, to thee holding firmly the law
of thy workings, move my words like lowing cattle, as rivers move towards the
sea.
¹
Or, thy grace.
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26. Fire the youth, the lord of the
peoples, the seer, the all-consuming, Fire of the many illuminations I glorify
with my thoughts.
27. May we strive towards the Fire by
our lauds, the charioteer of the sacrifices. Fire with his solid strength, his
sharp tusks of flame.
28. May this thy worshipper, O Fire,
abide in thee; on him have grace, O Right and True, O purifying Flame.
29. For thou art the wise thinker
seated in the house, like an illumined sage ever awake; O Fire, thou shinest out
in heaven.
30. Before the stumblings come, O
Fire, before the spoilers arrive, O seer, carry forward our life, O Shining One.
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1. Come, O Fire, with thy fires, we
choose thee as the Priest of the call, may the ladles extended, full of the
offering anoint thee, strongest for sacrifice when thou sittest on the
sacrificial seat.
2. For, towards thee, O Son of force,
O Angiras, the ladles move in the rite of the path; we seek the child of Energy
with his hair of light, the supreme fire in the sacrifices.
3. O Fire, thou art the seer and the
ordainer, the Priest of the call, the purifier to whom must be given sacrifice,
rapturous, strong for sacrifice, one to be prayed in the pilgrim-rites with
illumined thoughts, O brilliant Flame!
4. Bring to me who betray not, O
youngest, O unceasing Flame, the gods that desire for the advent; come to our
well-founded pleasant things, O shining One, rejoice established by our
thinkings.
5. O Fire, O deliverer, thou art very
wide, the true, the seer, thou who shinest out, O high-kindled Fire, thee the
sages, the ordainers illumine.
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6.
Flame out, O most luminous Flame, shine out for man, give to him who lauds thee
the bliss, for thou art great; may my luminous seers abide in the peace of the
gods, high in fire may they overcome the foe.
7.
As, O Fire, thou consumest old dry wood on the earth so bum, O friendly Light,
whosoever comes with evil mind, our hurter.
8.
Deliver us not to the mortal foe, to the demoniac, to him who gives expression
to evil; guard us with thy unfailing and benignant, guardian and rescuer fires,
O ever-youthful Flame!
9.
Guard, O Fire, with the single word, guard with the second, guard with the words
that are three, O master of Energies; O shining One, guard with the
fourth.
10.
Guard us from every hostile demon, protect us in the plenitudes ; for we come to
thee as the closest of the gods and our
ally for our increase.
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11.
O purifying Fire, bring to us and give a wealth that increases our growth, the
wealth that has to be expressed in us, O measurer of our formations, by thy
right leading a wealth full of many longed-for things and very great in its
self-glory, —
12.
by which we may conquer those who challenge us in our battles, breaking through
the designs of the foe; so do thou increase us with thy delight, O luminous in
might, speed on their way the thoughts that find the treasure.
13.
Fire is like a bull that sharpens its horns and tosses its head, his flaming
jaws are too bright and keen to gaze at; strong-tusked is the Son of
force.
14.
O Fire, O Bull, thy tusks of flame cannot be challenged by the gaze when thou
rangest abroad; so do thou, O Priest of the call, make that our offering is well
cast, conquer for us many desirable things.
15.
In the forest thou sleepest in the two mothers, mortals kindle thee into a
blaze; then sleepless thou carriest the offerings of the giver of the oblation
and now thou shinest in the gods.
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16.
Thee pray the seven priests of the call, thee the unhesitant, shooting well thy
shafts; thou breakest asunder the hill with thy heat and thy light: O Fire, go
forth beyond men.
17.
The Fire, the fire, let us call for you having placed the sacred grass and
placed the gifts of our pleasure, on day after day, Fire of the unseizable ray.
Priest of the call of seeing men.
18.
O Fire, to thee constant in the peace of a deep calm I come with the intuition
that awakes to knowledge; by our impulsion bring to us for our protection wealth
of many forms that is most close.
19.
O Fire, O god, for thy adorer thou art the lord of creatures, thou art the
master of his house who departs not from him, afflicting the demons; great art
thou, the guardian of heaven who comes to his gated home.
20.
O blazing light, let not the demon enter into us; let not the witchcraft of the
goblin sorcerers take possession; O Fire, push calamity and hunger far beyond
the pastures of our herds, ward the demon-possessed away from us.
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