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56 The Secret of the Veda mind only the food given at the sacrifice to the gods, but for the initiated it meant the Ananda, the joy of the divine bliss entering into the physical consciousness and at the same time suggested the image of the Soma-wine, at once the food of the gods and the Vedic symbol of the Ananda. We see everywhere this use of language dominating the Word of the Vedic hymns. It was the great device by which the ancient Mystics overcame the difficulty of their task. Agni for the ordinary worshipper may have meant simply the god of the Vedic fire, or it may have meant the principle of Heat and Light in physical Nature, or to the most ignorant it may have meant simply a superhuman personage, one of the many “givers of wealth”, satisfiers of human desire. How suggest to those capable of a deeper conception the psychological functions of the God? The word itself fulfilled that service. For Agni meant the Strong, it meant the Bright, or even Force, Brilliance. So it could easily recall to the initiated, wherever it occurred, the idea of the illumined Energy which builds up the worlds and which exalts man to the Highest, the doer of the great work, the Purohit of the human sacrifice. Or how keep it in the mind of the hearer that all these gods are personalities of the one universal Deva? The names of the gods in their very meaning recall that they are only epithets, significant names, descriptions, not personal appellations. Mitra is the Deva as the Lord of love and harmony, Bhaga as the Lord of enjoyment, Surya as the Lord of illumination, Varuna as the all-pervading Vastness and purity of the Divine supporting and perfecting the world. “The Existent is One,” says the Rishi Dirghatamas, “but the sages express It variously; they say Indra, Varuna, Mitra, Agni; they call It Agni, Yama, Matarishwan.” The initiate in the earlier days of the Vedic knowledge had no need of this express statement. The names of the gods carried to him their own significance and recalled the great fundamental truth which remained with him always. But in the later ages the very device used by the Rishis turned against the preservation of the knowledge. For language changed its character, rejected its earlier pliability, shed off old
The Philological Method of the Veda 57 familiar senses; the word contracted and shrank into its outer and concrete significance. The ambrosial wine of the Ananda was forgotten in the physical offering; the image of the clarified butter recalled only the gross libation to mythological deities, lords of the fire and the cloud and the storm-blast, godheads void of any but a material energy and an external lustre. The letter lived on when the spirit was forgotten; the symbol, the body of the doctrine, remained, but the soul of knowledge had fled from its coverings.
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The Secret of the Veda
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The Secret of the Veda with Selecte
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Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry
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CONTENTS XII The Herds of the Dawn
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CONTENTS Hymns to Agni Agni, the Di
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Chapter I The Problem and Its Solut
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Page 23 and 24: A Retrospect of Vedic Theory 11 reg
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Page 31 and 32: A Retrospect of Vedic Theory 19 hel
Page 33 and 34: A Retrospect of Vedic Theory 21 ren
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Page 37 and 38: Modern Theories 25 The modern theor
Page 39 and 40: Modern Theories 27 Nor is it a cert
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Page 45 and 46: Modern Theories 33 universal Nature
Page 47 and 48: The Foundations of the Psychologica
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Page 71 and 72: Agni and the Truth 59 be necessary.
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Page 83 and 84: Varuna-Mitra and the Truth 71 power
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The Image of the Oceans and the Riv
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Chapter XI The Seven Rivers THE VED
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The Seven Rivers 111 “May those d
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The Seven Rivers 113 construction u
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The Seven Rivers 115 13. Apā ˙m g
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The Seven Rivers 117 increases by k
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The Seven Rivers 119 the own or pro
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The Seven Rivers 121 lord and lover
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Chapter XII The Herds of the Dawn T
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The Herds of the Dawn 125 of Helios
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The Herds of the Dawn 127 gāva us.
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The Herds of the Dawn 129 is only i
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Chapter XIII Dawn and the Truth USH
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Dawn and the Truth 133 devī devebh
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Dawn and the Truth 135 comes divine
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Dawn and the Truth 137 us from the
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The Cow and the Angiras Legend 139
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Chapter XV The Lost Sun and the Los
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The Lost Sun and the Lost Cows 151
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Chapter XVI The Angiras Rishis THE
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The Angiras Rishis 161 In the Veda
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The Angiras Rishis 163 navagvo nu d
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The Angiras Rishis 165 as himself t
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The Angiras Rishis 167 in the sacri
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The Angiras Rishis 169 truth-thinki
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The Angiras Rishis 171 illumined (a
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Chapter XVII The Seven-Headed Thoug
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The Seven-Headed Thought, Swar and
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Chapter XVIII The Human Fathers THE
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The Human Fathers 189 Guest that lo
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The Human Fathers 191 and a great l
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The Human Fathers 193 children, sla
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The Human Fathers 195 thatwasplaced
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The Human Fathers 197 the gods (dev
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Chapter XIX The Victory of the Fath
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The Victory of the Fathers 201 all
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The Victory of the Fathers 203 Trut
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The Victory of the Fathers 205 fema
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The Victory of the Fathers 207 the
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The Victory of the Fathers 209 (or,
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Chapter XX The Hound of Heaven THER
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The Hound of Heaven 213 as is indee
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The Hound of Heaven 215 which goes
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The Hound of Heaven 217 perfectly s
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The Hound of Heaven 219 pure, had s
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The Hound of Heaven 221 which finds
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Chapter XXI The Sons of Darkness WE
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The Sons of Darkness 225 the Darkne
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The Sons of Darkness 227 grasp the
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The Sons of Darkness 229 shining hu
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The Sons of Darkness 231 the hymn i
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The Conquest over the Dasyus 233 of
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The Conquest over the Dasyus 235 th
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The Conquest over the Dasyus 237 wo
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The Conquest over the Dasyus 239 ma
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Chapter XXIII Summary of Conclusion
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Summary of Conclusions 243 The prin
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Summary of Conclusions 245 existenc
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Summary of Conclusions 247 numerous
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Author’s Note These translations
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254 Selected Hymns 4. Let them make
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256 Selected Hymns Agastya accepts
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258 Selected Hymns 5. And may the R
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260 Selected Hymns 8. “Drinking o
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262 Selected Hymns rays or damming
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264 Selected Hymns a climbing upwar
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III Indra and the Thought-Forces Ri
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268 Selected Hymns 6. Do thou, O In
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270 Selected Hymns There has been w
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272 Selected Hymns that travel thro
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274 Selected Hymns gradually, in th
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IV Agni, the Illumined Will RigVeda
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278 Selected Hymns enjoying, purify
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280 Selected Hymns presents itself
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282 Selected Hymns cosmic Powers ac
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284 Selected Hymns brilliant energi
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286 Selected Hymns 4. And thou reac
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288 Selected Hymns Vedic Rishis. Th
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290 Selected Hymns and sovereign Po
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292 Selected Hymns the intuitive re
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294 Selected Hymns 4. Dawn in her p
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296 Selected Hymns the dawn of the
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298 Selected Hymns and purity; he i
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300 Selected Hymns 5. All evils, O
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302 Selected Hymns described as hol
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304 Selected Hymns creative, it is
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VIII Vayu, the Master of the Life E
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308 Selected Hymns horns are infini
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310 Selected Hymns the nervous acti
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312 Selected Hymns Vayu, of Surya h
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314 Selected Hymns of the increase
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316 Selected Hymns 4. Brihaspati fi
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318 Selected Hymns separated terms
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320 Selected Hymns and formulated f
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322 Selected Hymns the vastness of
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324 Selected Hymns progress of the
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X The Ashwins, Lords of Bliss RigVe
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328 Selected Hymns COMMENTARY The h
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330 Selected Hymns is a double acti
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332 Selected Hymns full of the glor
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334 Selected Hymns progress they wo
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XI The Ribhus, Artisans of Immortal
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338 Selected Hymns as their own div
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340 Selected Hymns The third work o
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342 Selected Hymns Such are the Rib
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344 Selected Hymns 4. He whose thre
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346 Selected Hymns that the later c
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348 Selected Hymns In those three s
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350 Selected Hymns that high-placed
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356 Selected Hymns some particular
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358 Selected Hymns radiant herds of
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360 Selected Hymns immortal state.
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Foreword TO TRANSLATE the Veda is t
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Foreword 365 and religion had repla
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Foreword 367 But how are we to brin
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Foreword 369 in the darkling cave o
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The Doctrine of the Mystics 371 and
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The Doctrine of the Mystics 373 of
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The Doctrine of the Mystics 375 fee
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The Doctrine of the Mystics 377 by
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The Doctrine of the Mystics 379 God
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The Doctrine of the Mystics 381 and
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The Doctrine of the Mystics 383 tha
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Hymns to Agni
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392 Hymns of the Atris The variety
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404 Hymns of the Atris av -pED Eptr
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406 Hymns of the Atris that belong
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408 Hymns of the Atris y-(vA ãdA k
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410 Hymns of the Atris UZm}dA Ev þ
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412 Hymns of the Atris 11. Swaha to
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414 Hymns of the Atris 2. He is tha
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416 Hymns of the Atris evA aE`nmj;
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418 Hymns of the Atris 2. Wheresoev
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420 Hymns of the Atris aA y-t sEprA
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422 Hymns of the Atris (vAm`n mAn;
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The Ninth Hymn to Agni DIVINE WILL
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426 Hymns of the Atris t\ no a`n aB
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428 Hymns of the Atris (v\ no a`n e
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The Eleventh Hymn to Agni AHYMNTOTH
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432 Hymns of the Atris 6. O Flame,
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434 Hymns of the Atris t\ EcEk(v tE
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The Thirteenth Hymn to Agni A HYMN
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The Fourteenth Hymn to Agni A HYMN
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The Fifteenth Hymn to Agni A HYMN O
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The Sixteenth Hymn to Agni A HYMN T
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The Seventeenth Hymn to Agni A HYMN
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The Eighteenth Hymn to Agni A HYMN
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448 Hymns of the Atris 5. They who
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450 Hymns of the Atris 3. Men who a
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452 Hymns of the Atris i(TA yTA t U
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454 Hymns of the Atris dv\ vo dvy>y
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456 Hymns of the Atris 3. Mortals,
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458 Hymns of the Atris clear their
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The Twenty-Fifth Hymn to Agni A HYM
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464 Hymns of the Atris a`n Ev[vEBrA
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468 Hymns of the Atris yo m iEt þv
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470 Hymns of the Atris 3. O Flame,
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The Guardians of the Light SURYA, L
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The Guardians of the Light 475 and
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The Guardians of the Light 477 of t
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The Guardians of the Light 479 moun
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The Guardians of the Light 481 worl
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The Guardians of the Light 483 of o
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The Guardians of the Light 485 More
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The Guardians of the Light 487 in f
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The Guardians of the Light 489 SAVI
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The Guardians of the Light 491 Push
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The Guardians of the Light 493 sacr
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The Guardians of the Light 495 harm
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The Guardians of the Light 497 Stil
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The Guardians of the Light 499 Bhag
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The Guardians of the Light 511 righ
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Hymns to the Lords of Light 519 and
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Hymns to the Lords of Light 547 tho
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The First Hymn to the Dawn [The Ris
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The Second Hymn to the Dawn [The Ri
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A Hymn to Savitri [The Rishi hymns
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Part Four Other Hymns
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A Hymn of the Thought-Gods The shin
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564 Other Hymns a seer and a king.
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570 Other Hymns pvo dvA Bvt; s; vto
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572 Other Hymns forcefulness, by th
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A Vedic Hymn to the Fire A HYMN OF
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Parashara’s Hymns to the Lord of
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584 Other Hymns 7 up þ Ej và; ftF
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588 Other Hymns -vA@yo Edv aA sØ y
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590 Other Hymns evenly over the mou
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Interpretation of the Veda MR. AURO
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Interpretation of the Veda 595 in s
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Note on the Texts
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600 The Secret of the Veda Sri Auro
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602 The Secret of the Veda sixth ve
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604 The Secret of the Veda and tran
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