MANDALA TEN
TRITA APTYA
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1. This is he in whose peace,¹
and in his approach to it grows by his guardings the worshipper of the Fire, who
encompasses all and is spread everywhere luminous with the largest lights of
the wise.²
2. Fire, who shines perpetual, possessor
of the Truth, luminous with divine lights, he who follows out the works of a
comrade for his comrades like a courser running straight to his goal.
3. He who has power for every advent of
godhead, who has power for the outbreak of the dawn and is the life of all, Fire
in whom our thinkings are cast as offerings, his chariot goes unhurt and he
supports all his strengths.
4. Increasing by his strengths, rejoicing
in his illuminations he goes a swift galloper towards the gods; he is the
rapturous Priest of the call, strong to sacrifice with his tongue of flame,
inseparable from the gods the Fire sheds on them his light.
¹Or,
house of refuge,
²Or,
with his largest lights for the wise.
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5. Him fashion for you with your words and
your obeisances as if Indra quivering at the dawn-ray, him whom illumined sages
voice with their thoughts, the knower of all things born, the overpowering
Flame.
6. Thou in whom all the Riches meet
together in the plenitude like horses by their gallopings in their speed towards
the goal, the protections most desired by Indra to us make close, O Fire.
7. Now, indeed, taking thy seat in thy
greatness, O Fire, in thy very birth thou hast become the one to whom we must
call;
the gods walked by the ray of thy
intuition, then they grew and were the first and supreme helpers.
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1. Found for us felicity of earth and
heaven and universal life that we may worship thee with sacrifice, O god; O doer
of works, may we keep close to thy perceptions of knowledge; guard us, O god,
with thy wide utterances.
2. For thee these thoughts are born, O
Fire, towards thee they voice our achievement of riches with its horses of power
and
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herds of light when the mortal upheld
by his thoughts following thee attains to thy enjoyment, O Fire, perfectly born,
O shining One.
3. I think of the Fire as my father, my
ally, my brother, ever my comrade; I serve the, force of vast Fire, his bright
and worshipped force of the Sun in heaven.
4. O Fire, effective in us are thy
thoughts and conquerors of our aims: he whom thou deliverest, thou the eternal
Priest of the call in the house, who art that driver of the red horses,
possessed of the Truth, possessor of the much store of riches, may happiness be
his through the shining days.
5. The Fire founded by the heavens¹
as our friend and the means for our works, the ancient Priest of the
pilgrim-rites, the lover men brought into being by the strength of their two
arms and seated within as the Priest of the call in beings.
6. Thyself sacrifice in heaven to the gods,
for what shall man immature in thought and unconscious of the knowledge do of
thy work ? Even as thou didst sacrifice in the order and times of the Truth, a
god to the gods, O perfectly born Fire, so sacrifice to thy body.
¹Or,
with his lights
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7. O Fire, become our guardian and
protector, become the creator of our growth and of our growth the upholder, O
mighty One, give to us what we shall give as offerings to the gods, and
unfailing our bodies deliver.
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TRISHIRAS
TWASHTRA
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1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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 rays that are the foundations of the Horse of Power and
they accept embodiment in the native seat of the Truth.
1Or,
the humped-Bull,
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4. O shining One, thou comest to the front
of dawn after dawn, thou hast become luminous in the Twins; thou boldest the
seven planes for the Truth bringing Mitra to birth for thy own body.
5. Thou becomest the eye of the vast Truth;
when thou journeyest to the Truth thou becomest Varuna, its guardian; thou
becomest the child of the waters, O knower of all things born, thou becomest the
messenger of the man in whose offering thou hast taken pleasure.
6. Thou art the leader of the
sacrifice and leader to the mid-world to which thou resortest constantly with
thy helpful team of mares; thou upholdest in heaven thy head that conquers the
Sun-world, thy tongue thou makest, O Fire, the carrier of our offerings.
7. By his will Trita in the secret
cave desiring by his movements the thinking of the supreme Father cherished in
the lap of the Father and Mother, speaking the companion-word, seeks his
weapons.
8. Trita Aptya discovered the weapons of
the Father and missioned by Indra went to the battle; he smote the Three-
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headed, the seven-rayed
and let loose the ray-cows of the son of Twashtri the form-maker.
9. Indra, the master of beings, broke that
great upstriving meditating force and cast it downward and making his own the
ray-cows of Twashtri's son of the universal forms he took away from him his
three heads.
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HAVIRDHANA ANGI
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1. Mighty from the mighty, strong and
inviolable, he milked by the milking of heaven the streams of the Indivisible;
Varuna knew all by his right thought. A lord of sacrifice, may he perform the
order of the rites of the sacrifice.
2. May the Gandharvi speak to me and
the Woman born from the Waters, may her protection be around my mind midst the
roar of the river; may the indivisible mother establish us in the heart of our
desire: my brother the greatest¹ and first declares it to me.
3. She the happy, and opulent and glorious,
dawn has shone
¹Or,
the eldest
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out for man bringing the
Sun-world with her. When they . gave birth to this Fire, an aspirant doing the
will of the aspirants for the discovery of knowledge.
4, Now the Bird, the missioned Hawk, has
brought the draught of the great and seeing wine to the pilgrim-sacrifice. When
the Aryan peoples chose the doer of works. Fire the Priest of the call, then the
thought was born.
5. Ever art thou delightful like
grasses to that which feeds on them, O Fire, doing well with thy voices of
invocation the pilgrim-sacrifice for man when thou givest utterance to the
plenitude of the word of the illumined sage, as one who has conquered, thou
comest with thy multitude.
6. Upward lift the Father and Mother;
the lover aspires to his enjoyment, rejoicing he obeys the urgings from his
heart: a bearer of the word he speaks and jocund longs for the good work, the
Mighty One puts forth his strength and is illumined by the Thought.
7. O Fire, O son of Force, the mortal
who attains to thy right thinking goes forward and hears the truth beyond;
holding the impelling force, borne by the horses of power, luminous and mighty
he seeks to possess the heavens.
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8. When, O Fire, takes place that sacrificial assembly,
O master of sacrifice, the assembly divine among the gods, when thou
distributes! the ecstasies, O lord of nature, an opulent portion bring to us
9. Hear us, O Fire, in thy house, in the hall of thy session,
yoke the galloping car of the Immortal; bring to us heaven and earth,
parents of the gods; let none of the gods be away from us and mayst thou be
here.
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1. Heaven and earth are
the first to hear and by the Truth become possessed of the true speech when
the god fashioning the mortal for the sacrificial act takes his seat as his
Priest of the call and turned towards its own force moves towards it.
2. A god encompassing the gods with the Truth, carry our
offering, the first to awake to the knowledge; erect, thy light rises by the
kindling with smoke for thy banner; thou art the rapturous eternal Priest of
the call strong by speech for the sacrifice.
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3. When perfectly achieved is the immortality of the godhead,
the immortality of the Light, men born in this world hold wide earth and
heaven; all the gods follow in the track of that sacrificial act1
of thine when the white cow is milked of her stream of divine Light.
4. O earth and heaven, I sing to you the word of illumination,
pouring your light make my work grow, may the two firmaments hear me; when
the days and the heavens have come by the guidance of the force, may the
Father and Mother quicken us here with the sweetness of the wine.
5. On something in us the king has laid hold; what have we
done that transgresses his law who can know ? Even if the Friend is dealing
crookedly with the gods there is as if a call to us as we go, there is upon
us a plenitude.
6. Hard to seize by the mind in this world is the name of the
immortal because he puts on features and becomes divergent forms; he who
grasps perfectly with his mind and his thought seizes its controlling law,
him, O Fire, O mighty One, undeviatingly protect.
7. The discovery of knowledge in which the gods find their
rapture they hold in the house of the radiant sun; they have
¹Or, sacrificial word
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set in the sun its light, in the moon its
rays and both circle unceasingly around its illumination.
8. The thought in which the gods meet together, when it is
occult we know not of it. May Mitra and the indivisible mother and the
godhead of the creative sun declare us sinless to Varuna.
9. Hear us, O Fire, in thy house, in the hall of thy session,
yoke the galloping car of the Immortal; bring to us heaven and earth,
parents of the gods; let none of the gods be away from us and mayst thou be
here.
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VIMADA AINDRA OR
PRAJATYA OR VASUKRIT VSUKRA
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1. Bring to us a happy mind.
2. 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.
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3. 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.
4. He comes to us as a noble path for men
when he travels to the ends of heaven; he is the seer and he lights up the
sky.1
5. Accepting the oblation of man he stands
high exalted in the sacrifice, a skilful craftsman; he goes in our front
building our home.
6. He is our secure foundation, he is our
offering, he is the sacrifice; his path goes swiftly to its goal: the gods
call Fire with its adze.
7. I desire from the Fire, powerful for
the sacrifice the work of the supreme bliss;2 they speak of him
as the living son of the stone.3
8. Whatever men are with us may they in all
ways abide in happiness making the Fire to grow by the offerings.
1Or,
the cloud. 2Or,
the work that brings the supreme bliss;
3Or,
of the Rock, or the Peak.
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9. Black is his movement and white and
luminous and crimson-red, it is large and straight and glorious; golden of
form the father brought into being.
10. So, O Fire, rapturous thou bearest thy
thinking mind, O son of energy, companioning the immortals, coming to us
thou bearest thy words and thy right thinkings, thou bringest impelling
force, energy, happy worlds of habitation, all.1
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1. By our self-purifications we elect
thee, the Fire as our Priest of the call, for the sacrifice where strewn is
the grass, — in the intoxication of your rapture, — intense with thy
purifying light of flame, — and thou growest to greatness.
2. Those who have achieved possession of
the Horse, are very close to thee and glorify thee; the ladle goes to thee,
— in the intoxication of your rapture, — direct, carrying the oblation, O
Fire, — and thou growest to greatness.
1Or,
Vimada, the rapturous one, coming carries to thee, O Fire, his thinking
mind, to thee his words and his right thinkings, brings etc.
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3. In thee the upholding laws reside;
sprinkling out their contents as with ladle black forms and white — in the
intoxication of your rapture — all glories thou boldest — and thou growest
to greatness.
4. O forceful and immortal Fire, whatever
wealth thou deemest fit, that for the winning of the plenitudes,. — in the
intoxication of your rapture, — bring to us a wealth of various lights in
the sacrifices, — and thou growest to greatness.
5. The Fire born from Atharvan knows all
seer-wisdoms, he becomes the messenger of the luminous sun, — in the
intoxication of your rapture, — dear and desirable to the lord of the law,
— and thou growest to greatness.
6. Thee they pray in the sacrifices, O
Fire, as the pilgrim-sacrifice goes on its way; all desirable treasures — in
the intoxication of your rapture — thou foundest for the giver, and thou
growest to greatness.
7. Thee as the Priest of the rite in the
sacrifices men have seated, O Fire, beautiful, luminous of front, — in the
intoxication of your rapture, —bright and, with thy eyes, most conscious of
knowledge, — and thou growest to greatness.
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8. O Fire, with thy bright light of flame
thou spreadest the wide Vast, clamouring thou becomest the bull, — in the
intoxication of your rapture, — and settest the child of the womb in the
sisters, — and thou growest to greatness.
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VATSAPRI
BHALANDANA
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1. 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 one's thought perfectly fixed on him adores.
2. 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
earnest.
3. He of the god-mind kindled thee in
the Ocean, within the Waters, he of the divine vision kindled thee, O
Fire, in the teat of heaven; the mighty ones made thee to grow where
thou stoodest in the third kingdom, in the lap of the waters.
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4. Fire cried aloud like heaven
thundering, he licked the earth - revealing its growths: when kindled
and born, at once he saw all this that is; he shines out with his light
between earth and heaven.
5. An exalter of glories, a holder of the
riches, a manifester of thinking mind, a guardian of the wine of
delight, a shining One, the son of force, the king in the Waters, he
grows luminous as he burns up in the front of the dawns.
6. The ray of intuition of the
universe, the child in the womb of the world, in his coming to birth he
filled earth and heaven; going beyond them he rent even the strong
mountain when the peoples of the five births sacrificed to the fire.
7. An aspirant and traveller and wise of
mind, a purifying flame, the Fire who is set within as the immortal in
mortals, he sends forth and carries a ruddy smoke striving with his
bright flame of light to reach heaven.
8. Visible, golden of light, widely he
shone; resplendent in his glory he is life hard to violate: the Fire by
his expandings became immortal when heaven with its strong seed had
brought him to birth.
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9. O god, O happy light, O Fire, he who has
prepared for thee the luminous honeycomb1 him lead forward
towards a more opulent state, O youthful godhead, even to the bliss
enjoyed by the gods.
10. O Fire, bestow on him his share
in the things of inspired knowledge, in word upon word as it is spoken:
he becomes dear to the sun, dear to Fire; upward he breaks with what is
born in him, upward with the things that are to be born
11. O Fire, men who sacrifice to thee
day after day hold in themselves all desirable riches; desiring the
treasure in thy companionship, aspiring, they burst open the covered pen
of the Ray-Cows.
12. The Fire has been affirmed in their
lauds by the sages, he who is full of bliss for men, the Universal
Godhead, guardian of the wine of delight. Let us invoke earth and heaven
free from hostile powers; found in us, O gods, a wealth full of
hero-mights.
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1. The great Priest of the call has been
born; the knower of the heavens, he who is seated in man, may he take
his seat in the lap of the waters: he who upholds us and who is held in
us, rules for thee his worshipper thy expandings and thy riches and is
the protector of thy body.
2. They worshipped him in the session
of the waters, as if the cow of vision lost they followed him by his
tracks; where he hid in the secret cavern, aspiring with obeisance the
Flame-Seers, the wise thinkers desired and found him.
3. Him greatly desiring Trita, son of
the master of wide riches,¹ found on the head of the light
unslayable; he is born the youth who increases the felicity in our
mansions and becomes the navel-centre of the luminous world.
4. In their aspiration they created him by
their obeisance and set him in men as the rapturous Priest of the call,
the sacrificer ever-moving forward, the leader of the
pilgrim-sacrifices, the traveller, the carrier of the offering, the
purifying Flame.
5. He has come into being and leading him
like a golden-maned war-horse, the great, the victorious, the founder of
the Light, men ignorant, one who is free from ignorance, the render
¹Trita the
triple born from the All-pervading Substance,
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of the cities, the child
of the forests, whose wealth is the illumined word¹ —they
established the thought.
6. May Trita in the homesteads
holding all firmly² take his session in his native seat
within and all-encompassing; thence, a dweller in man's home, taking all
into his grasp, by a wide law of his action, by unrestrained movements
he journeys to the gods.
7. His ageless and purifying fires are the
defenders of our homes, lifting their luminous smoke; white-flaming,
dwellers in the Tree, they are our strengtheners and supporters and like
winds and like wine.
8. Fire carries with his tongue the
illumination of wisdom, he carries in his consciousness earth's
discoveries of knowledge; him men hold the illuminating and purifying
rapturous Priest of the call most strong for sacrifice.
9. This is the Fire to whom earth and
heaven gave birth; and the waters, the form-maker and the Flame-Seers by
their strengths, and life that grows in the mother and the gods have
fashioned for man desirable, first and supreme, a master of sacrifice.
¹Or, the
illumination
²Or, setting
himself firmly
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10. Thou art he whom the gods have set as
the carrier of the offerings and men with their many desires as the lord
of sacrifice; so do thou, O Fire, found in thy journeying wide expansion
for him who lauds thee and making him divine gather in him many glorious
things.
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1. Large was the covering and it was dense
in which thou wert wrapped when thou didst enter into the waters; one
was the god who saw thee but many and manifold were thy bodies which he
saw, O Fire, O knower of all things born.
2. Which of the gods was he who saw
everywhere my bodies in many forms ? O Mitra and Varuna, where then
dwell all the blazings of the Fire which are paths of the gods ?
3. We desire thee, O Fire, O knower
of all things born, when thou hast entered manifoldly into the growths
of the earth and into the waters; there the lord of the law grew aware
of thee, O thou of the many diverse lights, shining luminous beyond the
ten inner dwelling-places.
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4. O Varuna, fearing the sacrificants'
office that so the gods might not yoke me to that work; so my bodies
entered manifoldly, for I, Fire, was not conscious of this goal of the
movement.
5. Come to us; the human being,
god-seeking, is desirous of sacrifice, he has made all ready but thou
dwellest in the darkness, O Fire. Make the paths of the journeying of
the gods easy to travel, let thy mind be at ease, carry the offerings.
6. The ancient brothers of the Fire chose
this goal to be reached as charioteers follow a path; therefore in fear
I came far away, O Varuna. I started back as a gaur from the bow-string
of the archer.
7. Since we make thy life imperishable, O
Fire, O knower of all things born, so that yoked with it thou shalt not
come to harm, then with thy mind at ease thou canst carry their share of
the offering to the gods, O high-born Fire.
8. Give me the absolutes that precede
and follow the sacrifice as my share of the oblation packed with the
energy; give me the light from the waters and the soul from the plants
and let there be long life for the Fire, O gods.
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9. Thine be the absolute precedents and
consequents of the sacrifice, the portions packed with energy of the
oblation; thine, O Fire, be all this sacrifice; may the four regions bow
down to thee.
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SUMITRA
VADHRYASHWA
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1. 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.
2. 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.
3. The force of flame which thinking man,
which the friendly one, set ablaze, this is that new force, O Fire; so
opulently shine, so accept our words, so take the plenitude by violence, so
found here the inspired knowledge.
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4. That flame of thine of old which
the gelded Horse, when prayed, set blazing high, O Fire who art that flame,
this too accept; as that flame, become the protector of our stable erections
and the protector of our bodies, guard this giving of thine which is here in
us.
5. Become full of light, O gelded
Horse, and become our protector, let not the assault of men pierce thee;
thou art like a hero, a violent overthrower and the good Friend: lo, I have
uttered the names of the Fire of the gelded Horse.
6. Thou hast conquered the riches of the
plains and the riches of the mountain, the destroyer foemen, and the Aryan
freemen: like a hero art thou, a violent overthrower of men, O Fire, mayst
thou overcome those who battle against us.
7. This Fire is the long Thread, the vast
Bull, one with a thousand layers and a hundred leadings, he is the
Craftsman; luminous in men luminous, made bright by the hands of men, may he
flame out in the strivers after godhead, in the friendly people.¹
8. In thee is the good milch-cow, O
knower of all things born, as if unstayingly equal in its yield, giving its
nectar-milk.
¹In
the Sumitras, the name of the Rishi; but throughout the hymn there is a
double or symbolic meaning in the names.
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O Fire, thou art set
alight by men who have the intuitive judgment, strivers after godhead, the
friendly people.
9. Even the immortal gods proclaim thy
greatness, O knower of all things born, O Fire of the gelded Horse. That
which I sought by questioning, coming to the human peoples, thou hast
conquered by men who grow by thee.¹
10. Thee, as the father carries his son in
his lap so the gelded Horse carried and tended thee, O Fire; O youthful god,
accepting his fuel thou didst conquer even the supreme and mighty.
11. Fire has ever conquered the enemies of
the gelded Horse by men who have pressed the Soma-wine; O thou of the bright
diverse lights, thou hast broken and cast down the foe that was equal and
the foe that was mighty and thou hast given him increase.
12. This Fire is the slayer of the enemies
of the gelded Horse, lit from of old and to be invoked with obeisance; so do
thou assail those who attack him, both the uncompanioned and the one with
many companions, O Fire of the gelded Horse.
¹Or, who make thee
grow in them.
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