NODHAS GAUTAMA SUKTA 59 A HYMN OF THE UNIVERSAL DIVINE FORCE AND WILL Other flames are only branches of thy stock, O Fire. All the immortals take in thee their rapturous joy. O universal Godhead, thou art the navel-knot of the earths and their inhabitants; all men born thou controllest and supportest like a pillar. The Flame is the head of heaven and the navel of the earth and he is the power that moves at work in the two worlds. O Vaishwanara, the gods brought thee to birth a god to be a light to Aryan man. As the firm rays sit steadfast in the Sun, all

PURU SUKTA 16 Create by the illumining word a wide expansion for the Light, for the divine Fire, whom mortals by their proclaimings of him set in their front as Mitra the friend. He is menʼs priest of the call who by his illuminations carries in his two arms of the Understanding the offerings wholly in a continuous order; as Bhaga, the enjoyer, he Page –228 reaches our desirable good. In the lauding of this master of plenty, in his friendship as his light grows, for all things are in this Fire of the many voices, men have founded their strength in him, the Noble One.

MANDALA TWO GRITSAMADA BHARGAVA SUKTA 1 O Fire, thou art born with thy lights, flaming out on us in thy effulgence; thou art born from the waters and around the stone, thou art born from the forests and born from the plants of the earth. Pure art thou in thy birth, O Master of man and his race. O Fire, thine are the call and the offering, thine the purification and the order of the sacrifice, thine the lustration; thou art the fire-bringer for the seeker of the Truth. The annunciation is thine, thou becomest the pilgrim-rite:¹ thou art the priest of the Word and the master of th

SOBHARI KANWA SUKTA 103 He is seen, the great path-finder in whom they have founded the laws of our action; to the Fire well-born, increaser of the Aryan, go our words. Fire lit by the Servant of Heaven travels in his might towards the gods along our mother earth and on heavenʼs peak he takes his stand. Fire because of whom men doing the works that have to be done, grow luminous, him conqueror of the thousands as if in the winning of the purities they serve by the self,¹ by their thoughts. He whom thou willst to lead to the Riches, the mo

BHARADWAJA BARHASPATYA OR VITAHAVYA ANGIRASA SUKTA 15 Page – 271 Thou must crown with the word the guest who wakes from sleep with the dawn. Master of all these peoples. He is pure from his very birth and surely he comes to us from heaven in his time; long too, a child from the womb, he feeds on all that is unfallen. The Bhrigus set in the Tree the godhead of our aspiration with his high flame of light like a friend well-confirmed in his place. And now, O Wonderful, well-pleased in him who has cast to thee the offering, thou art ma

GOPAVANA ATREYA SUKTA 74 All kinds of beings replenish the guest domiciled in your house in whom are the many pleasant things; I laud him with my thoughts with the word of bliss. He to whom men bringing the offering pour the stream of the libation and by their words that give expression to him proclaim as the friend, — the wonderful,¹ the knower of all things born, who in the formation of the godheads sends up the offerings uplifted in heaven, — we have come to the Fire, strongest to slay the Coverers, eldest and ever new in whose f

SOBHARI KANWA sukta 19 Affirm that godhead of the sun-world, the gods set the divine traveller to his race, they brought the offering to the world of the gods. O illumined seer, pray the Fire opulent in his gifts, rich in his lustres; the guide of this Soma-sacrifice pray, O Sobhari, for the rite of the path, the Ancient One. We have chosen thee the mightiest for sacrifice, the divine in the divine, the immortal as the Priest of call of this sacrifice, the strong of will, — the

MANDALA TEN TRITA APTYA sukta 1 High and vast the Fire stood in front of the dawns; issuing out of the darkness he came with the Light: Fire, a perfect body of brilliant lustre, filled out at his very birth all the worlds. Thou art the child born from earth and heaven, the child beautiful carried in the growths of earth; an infant many-hued, thou goest forth crying aloud from the mothers around the nights and the darknesses. Vishnu knowing rightly the supreme plane of this Fire, born in his vastness

NABHAKA KANWA sukta 39 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. 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.

MEDHATITHI KANWA SUKTA 12 1. We choose Agni, the summoner, the all-knowing, the messenger, the will effective of this sacrifice. Page – 40 To the Lord of the creatures, the bearer of our offerings, the beloved of Many, to every flame the sacrificers ever call with hymns that summon the Gods, One in whom are many dear things. 3. O Fire, thou being born hither bear the Gods for the sacrificer who spreads the holy seat, thou art our desirable summoning priest. 4. O Fire, when thou goest as our envoy, awaken them up who desire our offerings. Take thy seat