HAVIRDHANA ANGI sukta 11 Mighty from the mighty, strong and inviolable, he milked by the milking of heaven the streams of the Indivisible; Varuna knew all by his right thought. A lord of sacrifice, may he perform the order of the rites of the sacrifice. May the Gandharvi speak to me and the Woman born from the Waters, may her protection be around my mind midst the roar of the river; may the indivisible mother establish us in the heart of our desire: my brother the greatest¹ and first declares it to me. She the happy, and opulent and glorious, dawn has shone

ISHA SUKTA 7 O comrades, in you an integral force and complete laud to Fire the most powerful among the peoples, to the Page –215 mighty child of energy. Whom wheresoever they come into contact with, him men who have the power rapturously set alight in this house of man and all beings born strive to bring to birth. Whenso we win completely the impulsions of force, completely the offerings human beings must give, then he gathers to himself the Ray of the light and the might and the Truth. Yea, he creates the light of intuition even for one who is far off in the

PRAYASWATS SUKTA 20 Page –232 O Fire, O thou who art most strong to conquer the plenitudes, the wealth which thou boldest in mind that make full of inspiration by the words and set it to work in the gods as our ally. They have grown on thy forceful strength, O Fire, yet impel us not on the way, they fall away and cleave to the hostility, cleave to the crookedness of one who has a law alien to thine. Thee, O Fire, the ancient one, we choose in our sacrifices as the Priest of the call, one who accomplishes a discerning knowledge,

DHARUNA ANGIRASA SUKTA 15 I bring my word to the creator and seer, him whom we must know, the glorious, the ancient one; Fire the Mighty One seated in the light, full of bliss, the holder of the Treasure, the continent of the Riches. By the Truth they held the Truth that holds all, in the might of the sacrifice, in the supreme ether, they who reached the gods seated in the law that is the upholder of heaven, reached by the godheads born the unborn. They weave bodies that reject evil, they weave a vast expansion hard to cross for the ancient one; he new-born can Page –227

VATSAPRI BHALANDANA sukta 45 Above heaven was the first birth of the Fire, over us was his second birth as the knower of all things born, his third birth was in the waters, a god-mind; him continuously one kindles and with oneʼs thought perfectly fixed on him adores. O Fire, we know the triple three of thee, we know thy seats borne widely in many planes, we know thy supreme Name which is in the secrecy, we know that fount of things whence thou camest. He of the god-mind kindled thee in the Ocean, within the Waters, he of the divine vision kind

SUMITRA VADHRYASHWA sukta 69 Happy are the seeings of the Fire of the gelded Horse, pleasurable his guidance, delightful his approaches; when the friendly peoples set him ablaze in their front, fed with the oblations of the Light he flames up for his worshipper. The Light is the increasing of the Fire of the gelded Horse, Light is his food. Light is his fattening: fed with the oblation of the Light wide he spread; he shines as the Sun when there is poured on him its running stream. The force of flame which thinking man, which the fri

AGNISAUCHIKA OR VAISHWANARA OR SAPTI VAJAMBHARA sukta 79 I have seen the greatness of this great one, the Immortal in the mortal peoples. The jaws of this abundant eater, separate and held apart, are brought close together, devouring, insatiable. His head is in the secrecy, his eyes wide apart, insatiable he eats up the forest with his tongue of flame. They bring together his foods for him with the pacings of their feet, their hands of obeisance are outstretched in the peoples. Page – 412 Desi

VAVRI SUKTA 19 State upon state is born, covering upon covering has be- Page –231 come conscious and aware, in the lap of the mother he sees. Awaking to an entire knowledge they have called and guard a sleepless strength, they have entered the strong fortified city. Creatures born, men who people the earth have increased the luminosity of the son of the white mother; his neck wears the golden necklace, he has the utterance of the Vast, and with his honey-wine he is the seeker of the plenitude. He is as if the delightful and desirable milk of the mother, h

MANDALA THREE GATHINA VISHWAMITRA SUKTA 1 Bear me that I may be strong to hold the wine, O Fire, for thou hast made me a carrier flame of sacrifice in the getting of knowledge: I shine towards the gods, I put the stone to its work, I accomplish the labour;¹ O Fire, take delight in my body. We have made the sacrifice with its forward movement, may the word increase in us; with the fuel, with the obeisance they have set the Fire to its work. The heavens have declared the discoveries of knowledge of the seers and they have willed a path for the strong and wise.

KUMAR ATREYA OR VRISHA JANA SUKTA 2 Page –203 The young Mother carries the boy suppressed in the secret cavern and she gives him not to the father; his force is undiminished, men see him in front established inwardly in the movement. Who is this boy, O young mother, whom thou carriest in thyself when thou art compressed into form, but when thou art vast thou hast given him birth? Through many years grew the child in the womb, I saw him born when the mother brought him forth. I saw him in a distant field, one golden-tusked and pure-bright of hue shaping his weap