MANDALA FOUR VAMADEVA GAUTAMA SUKTA 1 Thee, O Fire, ever with one passion the gods have sent inwards, the divine Traveller;¹ with the will they sent thee in; O master of sacrifice, they brought to birth the immortal in mortals, the divine who brings in the divinity, the conscious thinker, they brought to birth the universal who brings in the divinity, the conscious thinker. Then do thou, O Fire, turn towards the godheads with the right thinking Varuna, thy brother who delights in the sacrifice, the eldest who delights in the sacrifice, — even him who keeps the truth, son of

ARUNA VAITAHAVYA sukta 91 Adored by those who are wakeful, the dweller in the house is kindled in the house aspiring in the seat of revelation, the sacrificant of every offering, one Supreme,¹ wide of being, wide in light, a perfect friend to the man who seeks his friendship. In his visioned glory he lodges as the guest in every house, as a bird in forest and forest; he disdains not the peoples, universal he dwells in being and being, common to all he dwells in man and man. Thou art discerning in thy judgments, strong of will in thy workings of will, O Fire, an omnis

SASA SUKTA 21 As the human we set thee within us, as the human we kindle Page –233 thee; O Fire, O Angiras, as the human offer sacrifice to the gods for the seeker of the godheads. O Fire, thou art kindled in the human being and well-satisfied; unceasing ladles go to thee, O perfect in thy birth, O thou who receivest as oblation the stream of his clarities! Thee all the gods with one mind of acceptance made their envoy; men serving thee pray thee as the godhead in their sacrifices, O seer. Let mortal man with will to the divine sacrifice to you, pray to the d

MANDALA ONE MADHUCHCHHANDAS VAISHWAMITRA SUKTA 1 1. I adore the Flame, the vicar, the divine Ritwik of the Sacrifice, the summoner who most founds the ecstasy. 2. The Flame adorable by the ancient sages is adorable too by the new. He brings here the Gods. 3. By the Flame one enjoys a treasure that verily increases day by day, glorious, most full of hero-power. 4. O Flame! the pilgrim-sacrifice on every side of which thou art with the environing being, that truly goes among the Gods. 5. The Flame, the

VISHWASAMAN SUKTA 22 O thou of the universal peace, as the Atri sing the word of illumination to Fire of the purifying light who is to be prayed in the pilgrim-sacrifices, the Priest of the call, most rapturous in man. Page – 234 Set within you Fire, the knower of all things born, as the divine ordinant of the rite; let your sacrifice march forward today most strong to bring the epiphany of the gods. Mortals we fix our minds on thee the godhead who hast the mind of conscious knowledge for the protection as we journey, for the guardian supremely desirable.

VIMADA AINDRA OR PRAJATYA OR VASUKRIT VSUKRA SUKTA 20 Bring to us a happy mind. I pray the Fire, the friend who is irresistible in his own command, in whose law the white rays attend on the Sun-world, serve the teat of the mother. Page – 396 Fire whom face to face a home of light, one who brings the ray of intuition by his lustre they increase; he blazes with his row of flaming tusks. He comes to us as a noble path for men when he travels to the ends of heaven; he is the seer

make him grow increasing in his bulk by their toil,¹ the Flame well-born in their womb, in the abode of the Truth. He is as if a delightful thriving, he is like the earth our wide dwelling-place. He is enjoyable like a hill and bliss-giving like fast-running water. He is like a charger in the battle rushing to the gallop and like a flowing river;² who shall hedge in his course? He is the close comrade of the Rivers as is a brother of his sisters. He devours the earthʼs forests as a king his enemies. When driven by the breath of the wind he ranges around the forests, the Flame tears asunder the

GAYA SUKTA 9 Thee, O Fire, men bringing offerings pray, mortals the godhead; I meditate on thee as the knower of all things born and as such thou earnest our offerings without a break. Page –219 Fire is the priest of the call in the house of the giver who has plucked the grass for the seat of sacrifice and in him our sacrifices meet and our plenitudes of inspired knowledge. Verily, the two tinders have brought to birth as if a new-born infant Fire who does aright the pilgrim-sacrifice, to be the upholder of the human beings. Verily, thou art hard to seize lik

TRYARUNA TRAIVRISHNA, TRASADASYU PAURUKUTSA, ASHWAMEDHA BHARATA SUKTA 27 O Will, O Universal Power,¹ the mighty One supreme in vision, master of his being, lord of his plenitudes has given me his two cows of the Light that draw his wain. He of the triple dawn, son of the triple Bull,² has awakened to knowledge with the ten thousands³ of his plenitude. He gives to me the hundred and twenty4 of the cows of dawn; his two shining5 horses he gives, yoked to the car, that bear aright the yoke. O Will, O Universal Power, do thou rightly affi

GATHIN KAUSHIKA SUKTA 19 Fire I choose the Priest of the call in the sacrifice, the wise, the seer, the omniscient, free from ignorance: he shall do worship for us strong for sacrifice, in the formation of the godheads; for the wealth, for the plenitude he wins all kinds of amassings. ¹ Or, as long as I have the power, Page – 141 O Fire, I mission towards thee a power of giving bearing my oblation, luminous, full of lustres. May he come to the sacrifice with his givings, with his treasures turning round it and widening the formation of the godheads.