Sukta 144

एति प्र होता व्रतमस्य माययोर्ध्वां दधानः शुचिपेशसं धियम्। अभि स्रुचः क्रमते दक्षिणावृतो या अस्य धाम प्रथमं ह निंसते॥

eti pra hotā vratamasya māyayordhvāṁ dadhānaḥ śucipeśasaṁ dhiyam | abhi srucaḥ kramate dakṣiṇāvṛto yā asya dhāma prathamaṁ ha niṁsate ||

THE Priest goes forth to sacrifice, with wondrous power sending aloft the hymn of glorious brilliancy. He moves to meet the ladles turning to the right, which are the first to kiss the place where he abides.

अभीमृतस्य दोहना अनूषत योनौ देवस्य सदने परीवृताः। अपामुपस्थे विभृतो यदावसदध स्वधा अधयद्याभिरीयते॥

abhīmṛtasya dohanā anūṣata yonau devasya sadane parīvṛtāḥ | apāmupasthe vibhṛto yadāvasadadha svadhā adhayadyābhirīyate ||

To him sang forth the flowing streams of Holy Law, encompassed in the home and birth-place of the God. He, when he dwelt extended in the waters' lap, absorbed those Godlike powers for which he is adored.

युयूषतः सवयसा तदिद्वपुः समानमर्थं वितरित्रता मिथः। आदीं भगो न हव्यः समस्मदा वोळ्हुर्न रश्मीन्समयंस्त सारथिः॥

yuyūṣataḥ savayasā tadidvapuḥ samānamarthaṁ vitaritratā mithaḥ | ādīṁ bhago na havyaḥ samasmadā voḻhurna raśmīnsamayaṁsta sārathiḥ ||

Seeking in course altern to reach the selfsame end the two copartners strive to win this beauteous form. Like Bhaga must he be duly invoked by us, as he who drives the car holds fast the horse's reins.

यमीं द्वा सवयसा सपर्यतः समाने योना मिथुना समोकसा। दिवा न नक्तं पलितो युवाजनि पुरू चरन्नजरो मानुषा युगा॥

yamīṁ dvā savayasā saparyataḥ samāne yonā mithunā samokasā | divā na naktaṁ palito yuvājani purū carannajaro mānuṣā yugā ||

He whom the two copartners with observance tend, the pair who dwell together in the same abode, By night as in the day the grey one was born young, passing untouched by eld through many an age of man.

तमीं हिन्वन्ति धीतयो दश व्रिशो देवं मर्तास ऊतये हवामहे। धनोरधि प्रवत आ स ऋण्वत्यभिव्रजद्भिर्वयुना नवाधित॥

tamīṁ hinvanti dhītayo daśa vriśo devaṁ martāsa ūtaye havāmahe | dhanoradhi pravata ā sa ṛṇvatyabhivrajadbhirvayunā navādhita ||

Him the ten fingers, the devotions. animate: we mortals call on him a God to give us help. He speeds over the sloping surface of the land: new deeds hath he performed with those who gird him round.

त्वं ह्यग्ने दिव्यस्य राजसि त्वं पार्थिवस्य पशुपा इव त्मना। एनी त एते बृहती अभिश्रिया हिरण्ययी वक्वरी बर्हिराशाते॥

tvaṁ hyagne divyasya rājasi tvaṁ pārthivasya paśupā iva tmanā | enī ta ete bṛhatī abhiśriyā hiraṇyayī vakvarī barhirāśāte ||

For, Agni, like a herdsman, thou by thine own might rulest o'er all that is in heaven and on the earth; And these two Mighty Ones, bright, golden closely joined, rolling them round are come unto thy sacred grass.

अग्ने जुषस्व प्रति हर्य तद्वचो मन्द्र स्वधाव ऋतजात सुक्रतो। यो विश्वतः प्रत्यङ्ङसि दर्शतो रण्वः संदृष्टौ पितुमाँ इव क्षयः॥

agne juṣasva prati harya tadvaco mandra svadhāva ṛtajāta sukrato | yo viśvataḥ pratyaṅṅasi darśato raṇvaḥ saṁdṛṣṭau pitumā iva kṣayaḥ ||

Agni, accept with joy, be glad in this our prayer, joy-giver, self-sustained, strong, born of Holy Law! For fair to see art thou turning to every side, pleasant to look on as a dwelling filled with food.