SUTAMBHARA SUKTA 11 Fire the guardian of men has been born, wakeful and discerning for a new happy journey; luminous is his front and with his heaven-touching vast he shines out full of light and brilliant in his purity for the Bringers. Fire the supreme intuition of the sacrifice, the representative priest, men have kindled high in the triple world of his session; let him come in one chariot with Indra and the gods and take his seat on the sacred grass, the Priest of the call, strong in will to sacrifice. Page –222 Unoppressed thou art born brilliant-pure from the mothers twain, a rap

USHANAS KAVYA SUKTA 84 1. Your guest most beloved I laud who is like a beloved friend, Fire who is as if the chariot of our journey, the one whom we must know. Page – 368 2. He whom as the seer and thinker the gods have now set within twofold in mortals. 3. O thou ever-young, guard men who give, hear our words; protect the son by the Self. 4. O divine Fire, O Angiras, O child of energy, by what word, the laud, for thy supreme thinking? 5. By the mind of what master of sacrifice shall we give, O son of force; how shall I word this

CHITRAMAHAS VASISHTHA sukta 122 I voice the Shining One with its richly varied lights,² the fair and happy, the guest in whom is nothing hostile; Fire, the Priest of the call, the master of the house gives the healing forces that sustain the world, he gives us the hero-energy. O Fire, take pleasure in my word, let thy joy respond to it, for thou knowest all discoveries of knowledge, O strong will! Robed in light, put out a path for the Word, the gods have begotten all according to thy law of works.

MRIDIKA VASISHTHA sukta 150 Already kindled thou art kindled again for the gods, O carrier of the offering, come along with the sons of Aditi and with the Rudras and with the Shining Ones, come to us for grace. Accepting this sacrifice, this word come to us, we who are mortals call thee, O high-kindled Fire, we call thee for grace. Thee I voice with my thought, the knower of all things born, in whom are all desirable things, O Fire, bring to us the gods whose law of working is dear to

MANDALA SEVEN VASISHTHA MAITRAVARUNI SUKTA 1 Men have brought to birth from the two tinders by the handsʼ fall the Fire voiced by the light of their meditations;¹ Fire that sees afar the flaming master of the house. The Shining Ones² have set within in our dwelling-house closely regarding all to guard us from whatever side — that Fire which in his home sits eternal and all-discerning. Verily shine out in front of us, O Fire, with thy perpetual radiance; to thee continuous come plenitudes. Fires come blazing out supremely from thy Fires

VIRUPA ANGIRASA sukta 43 Him pray our words, even these lauds of Fire, the illumined seer, the creator, invincible in his sacrifice. 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! Oh, like jets of light thy keen energies of flame devour with their teeth the woods. Bright, with smoke for their flag against heaven, urged by the winds, labour separate thy fires. Page – 342 These are those separate fires of thine that kindled are

VISHWAWARA SUKTA 28 The Flame of Will burning high rises to his pure light in the heaven of mind; wide he extends his illumination and fronts the Dawn. She comes, moving upward, laden with all desirable things, seeking the gods with the oblation, luminous with the clarity. When thou bumest high thou art king of immortality and thou cleavest to the doer of sacrifice to give him that blissful state; he to whom thou comest to be his guest, holds in himself all substance and he sets thee within in his front. O Flame, put forth thy battling might for a vast enjoyment²

DEVAS AND AGNI SAUCHIKA sukta 51 Large was the covering and it was dense in which thou wert wrapped when thou didst enter into the waters; one was the god who saw thee but many and manifold were thy bodies which he saw, O Fire, O knower of all things born. Which of the gods was he who saw everywhere my bodies in many forms ? O Mitra and Varuna, where then dwell all the blazings of the Fire which are paths of the gods ? We desire thee, O Fire, O knower of all things born, when thou hast entered manifoldly into the growths of the earth an

gathina vishwamitra SUKTA 24 O Fire, overpower the hostile armies, hurl them from us; hard to pierce, pierce the enemy-powers, found thy splendour in him who carries through the sacrifice. O Fire, thou art kindled by the word of revelation, the immortal who comes to the offering, accept wholly our pilgrim-sacrifice. O Fire, ever-wakeful with thy light, O son of force, invoked sit on my seat of sacrifice. Page – 147 O Fire, with all thy divine fires greaten in our sacrifi