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The Vamadeva Hymns to Agni 475 or knowledge, the perception shining for each creature, kwtu' ... .*gva,' ivxeivxe (ketuÌ... bhÐgavÀÍaÌ viÙeviÙe), (in 5) as the Priest who knows, hotar' ... icikTva'sm( (hotÀraÌ... cikitvÀsam), (in 6) as the bright one in the secrecy who has perfect knowledge, ic]' ... guha ihtm( suvedm( (citraÌ... guhÀ hitam suvedam), (in 7 and 8) as coming possessed of the truth for the sacrifice when the gods rejoice in the seat of the Truth, as the messenger, ©tSy /amn( r,yNt deva" ... ver~vray sdimd*tava ... dt ?yse (Ðtsya dhÀman raÍayanta devÀÕ... veradhvarÀya sadamidÐtÀvÀ... dÓta dhyase). All this is ample warrant for taking Agni not merely as the physical flame on the altar, but as a flame of divine knowledge guiding the sacrifice and mediating between man and the gods. The balance is also, though not indisputably, in favour of taking it as a reference to the inner sacrifice under the cover of the outer symbols; for why should there be so much stress on divine knowledge if the question were only of a physical sacrifice for physical fruits? I know that he is the priest, sage, messenger, eater, swift traveller and warrior. How are these ideas, both successive and interwoven in the Veda, connected together? Is it the physical sacred flame that is all these things or the inner sacred flame? There is sufficient warrant even in provisionally taking it for the inner flame; but to be sure I cannot rely on this one Rik. I have to note the evolution of the same ideas in other hymns, to study all the hymns dedicated to Agni or in which he is mentioned, to see whether there are passages in which he is undoubtedly the inner flame and what light they shed on his whole physiognomy. Only then shall I be in a position to judge certainly the significance of the Vedic Fire. This example will show the method I follow in regard to the third question, the interpretation of the Vedic symbols. That there are a mass of figures and symbols in the hymns, there can be no doubt. The instances in this 7th hymn of the Fourth Mandala are sufficient by themselves to show how large a part they play. In the absence of any contemporary evidence of the sense which the Rishis attached to them, we have to seek for their meaning in the Veda itself. Obviously, where we do not know we cannot do without a hypothesis, and my hypothesis is that of the outer material form as a significant symbol of an inner spiritual meaning. But this or any hypothesis can have no real value if it is brought in from outside, if it is not suggested by the words and indications of the Veda itself. The Brahmanas are
476 Hymns to the Mystic Fire too full of ingenuities; they read too much and too much at random into the text. The Upanishads give a better light and we may get hints from later work and even from Sayana and Yaska, but it would be dangerous at once to read back literally the ideas of a later mentality into this exceedingly ancient scripture. We must start from and rely on the Veda to interpret the Veda. We have to see, first, whether there are any plain and evident psychological and spiritual conceptions, what they are, what clue they give us, secondly, whether there are any indications of psychological meanings for physical symbols and how the outer physical is related to the inner psychological side. Why, for instance, is the Flame Agni called the seer and knower? Why are the rivers called the waters that have knowledge? Why are they said to ascend or get on the mind? And a host of other similar questions. The answer again must be found by a minute comparative study of the Vedic hymns themselves. In this volume I proceed by development. I take each hymn, get at its first meaning; I see whether there are any psychological indications and what is their force and what their interweaving and relation to the other surrounding ideas. I proceed thus from hymn to hymn linking them together by their identical or similar ideas, figures, expressions. In this way it may be possible to arrive at a clear and connected interpretation of the Veda. This method supposes that the hymns of the Rig-veda are one whole composed by different Rishis, but on the basis of a substantially identical and always similar knowledge and one system of figures and symbols. This, I think, is evident on the very surface of the Veda. The only apparent exceptions are certain hymns, mostly in the tenth Mandala, which seem to belong to a later development, some almost purely ritualistic, others more complex and developed in symbol than the body of the Riks, others clearly announcing philosophical ideas with a modicum of symbol, the first voices which announce the coming of the Upanishads. Some hymns are highly archaic, others of a more clear and relatively modern type. But for the most part throughout we find the same substance, the same images, ideas, standing terms, the same phrases and expressions. Otherwise the problem would be insoluble; as it is, the Veda itself
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MADHUCHCHHANDAS VAISHWAMITRA SUKTA
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Mandala One To the Lord of the crea
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Mandala One O Fire! perfectly kindl
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Mandala One It is in thee, O Agni,
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Mandala One As with thick falling b
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Mandala One sun-world, its many mig
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He who in the growths of earth hold
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Mandala One He who travels the path
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Mandala One extend our being and cr
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Mandala One God art thou of the god
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Mandala One Let thy face front the
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Mandala One the day, for his undepa
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Mandala One enjoying; for those who
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Mandala One divine; uniting, anothe
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Mandala Four 163 shining in his bea
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Mandala Four 169 4-002-13 TvmGne va
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Mandala Four 171 Create for yoursel
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Mandala Four 4-004-11 mho äjaim bN
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Mandala Four 179 Going they go on t
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Mandala Four 181 Those who live und
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Mandala Four 185 Him in the many mo
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Mandala Four 189 Let thy invincible
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Mandala Four 191 O Fire, O thou wit
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BHARADWAJA BARHASPATYA SUKTA 1 6-00
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Mandala Six 249 fuel of thy flame a
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Mandala Six 253 force of battle. Th
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Mandala Six 265 He among mortals is
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TRITA APTYA SUKTA 1 10-001-01 Ag[e
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Mandala Ten 381 Thou comest to men'
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Mandala Ten 393 out for man bringin
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Mandala Ten 409 O Fire, thou art se
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Mandala Ten 411 Touch either heaven
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Mandala Ten ARUNA VAITAHAVYA SUKTA
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Page 493 and 494: A Great God has been Released TRANS
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Page 508 and 509: Word-Formation THE language of man
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