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…one; the wise call it by many names." The poets who sang to Indra and Agni and Varuna already understood that they were naming one reality in many voices.

In a hymn the tradition has quoted for three thousand years, the poet lists the names people use, Indra, Mitra, Varuna, Agni, and then says the thing that organises everything that comes after.

Open the oldest book in the living world of Hinduism, turn to the very first line, and the first word you meet is the name of a god. The god is Agni .

…ta answers at Sutrasthana 15.41: one whose doshas are balanced, whose agni , the digestive fire, is steady, whose tissues and wastes are doing their work, and then he keeps going, and whose self, senses and min…

A famous line of the Rigveda , in Griffith's translation, says of the one reality that "sages give many a title; they call it Agni, Yama, Matarisvan." One being, many names.

And the classic remover of impurity, throughout Vedic and later Hindu thought, is Agni, fire, called pavaka , "the purifier." Fire is what makes an offering fit to rise to the gods; fire is what cleanses.

…same nine powers, ending in the same Sarvatomukhi, are already in the Agni Purana , which is a far more widely copied book than any Saura tantra ever was, and so are the seat and the Sun's khasholka heart-mantr…

Griffith's public-domain translation renders it: "They call him Indra, Mitra, Varuna, Agni...