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

GAUPAYANAS OR LAUPAYANAS SUKTA 24 1-2. O Will, become our inmost inmate, become auspicious to us, become our deliverer and our armour of protection. Thou who art the lord of substance and who of that substance hast the divine knowledge, come towards us, give us its most luminous opulence. 3-4. Awake! hear our call! keep us far from all that seeks to turn us to evil. O shining One, O Flame of purest Light, Page –236 thee for our comrades we desire that even now they may have the bliss and peace. Page –237

VASUSHRUTA SUKTA 3 1. Thou art Varuna, O Fire, when thou art born, thou becomest Mitra when thou blazest high; in thee are all the gods, O son of Force, thou art Indra for the mortal giver. O holder of the self-law, thou becomest Aryaman when thou bearest the secret name of the Virgins; they reveal thee Page –206 with the Rays as Mitra firmly founded when thou makest of one mind the Lord of the house and the Spouse. For the glory of thee, O Rudra, the life-powers make bright thy birth into a richly manifold beauty. When that highest step¹ of Vishnu is founded within, thou gu

TRISHIRAS TWASHTRA sukta 8 The Fire journeys on with his vast ray of intuition, the Bull bellows to earth and heaven; he has reached up to the highest extremities of heaven, the mighty one has grown in the lap of the waters. The Bull of the heights,1 the new-born rejoiced, the unfailing child worker rejoiced and shouted aloud; in the formation of the gods he does his exalted works and comes the first in his own abodes. He who grasps the head of the father and mother they set within in the pilgrim-sacrifice, a sea from the Sun-world; in his path are the shining

SHYAVASHWA ATREYA sukta 38 1. You (two) are the ritual-priests of the sacrifice, conquerors in our plenitudes and our works; to this awake, O Indra, O Fire. 2. O smiters who journey in the chariot, slayers of the coverer, ever unconquered — to this awake, O Indra, O Fire. 3. Men have pressed out for you by the stones this rapturous honey-wine — to this awake, O Indra, O Fire. 4. Take pleasure in the sacrifice, for the sacrifice come to the Soma-wine pressed out, gods to whom rises the common laud, O Ind