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1. Him,
messenger of earth and head of heaven, Agni Vaisvanara, born in holy Order,
The Sage, the King, the guest
of men, a vessel fit for their mouths, the Gods have generated.
2 Him have
they praised, mid-point of sacrifices, great cistern of libations, seat of
riches.
Vaisvanara, conveyer of
oblations, ensign of worship, have the Gods engendered.
3 From thee, O
Agni, springs the mighty singer, from thee come heroes who subdue the foeman.
O King, Vaisvanara, bestow thou
on us excellent treasures worthy to belonged fo r.
4 To thee,
Immortal! when to life thou springest, all the Gods sing for joy as to their
infant.
They by thy mental powers were
made immortal, Vaisvanara, when thou shonest from thy Parents.
5 Agni
Vaisvanara, no one hath ever resisted these thy mighty ordinances,
When thou, arising from thy
Parents' bosom, foundest the light for days' appointed courses.
6 The summits
of the heaven are traversed through and through by the Immortal's light,
Vaisvanara's brilliancy.
All creatures in existence rest
upon his head. The Seven swift-flowing Streams have grown like branches forth,
7 Vaisvanara,
who measured out the realms of air, Sage very wise who made the lucid spheres
of heaven,
The Undeceivable who spread out
all the worlds, keeper is he and guard of immortality.
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