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

DWITA MRIKTAWAHAS SUKTA 18 Let the Fire with his multitude of delightful things, the guest of man, receive the laud at dawn, he who is immortal in mortals and takes joy in all their offerings. Page –230 The plenitude of his own understanding for the twofold power that carries the purified offering; he holds uninterruptedly the moon-wine and he too who lauds thee, holds it, O immortal. I call him by the word who is the light of long-extended life for you the lords of plenty, you whose chariot goes abroad without hurt, O giver of the Horse, — in whom is the

thoughts, menʼs priest of the call,¹ who encircles all like heaven, the Male with hair of flaming-light whom may these peoples cherish for his urge. Many things illumining with his wide-shining energy he becomes one who cleaves through those who would hurt us, like a battle-axe he cleaves through those who would hurt us, he in whose shock even that which is strong falls asunder, even what is firmly fixed falls like trees; overwhelming with his force he toils on and goes not back, like warriors with the bow from the battle he goes not back. Even things strongly built they give to him as to one who k

PRAYOGA BHARGAVA SUKTA 102 1. Thou, O divine Fire, foundest a vast expansion for the giver, thou art the seer, the youth, the master of the house. 2. Do thou, O Fire of the wide light, who art awake to knowledge, go with our word of prayer and of works and call the gods. 3. With thee indeed as an ally, most strong in thy urge, we overcome for the conquest of the plenitude. Page – 370 4. Even as the Flame-Seer, Son of the Wideness, even as the Doer of Works I invoke the pure ocean-dwelling Fire. 5. I call the force which has the