MANDALA EIGHT VATSA KANWA sukta 11 O Fire, thou art the guardian of the law of all workings, thou art the divine in mortals; thou art one to be prayed in the sacrifices. O forceful one, it is thou who art to be expressed in the findings of knowledge; O Fire, thou art the charioteer of the pilgrim-sacrifices. So do thou remove away from us the enemies, O knower of all things born, even the undivine and hostile forces, O Fire. Even when it is near, O surely thou

SUPPLEMENT The following notes and studies found among Sri Aurobindoʼs early manuscripts, evidently unrevised, are printed here for their intrinsic value. The First Rik of the Rig-veda Madhuchchhandas Vaishwamitraʼs Hymn to Agni written in the Gayatri metre in which the first verse runs in the devabhāṣā, Agnimīḷe purohitam yajñasya devamṛtvijam, hotāram ratnadhātamam. and in English, “Agni I adore, who stands before the Lord, the god who seeth Truth, the warrior, strong disposer of delight.ˮ So the Rig-veda begins with an invocation to Agni, with the ado