Agni

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…

The Vedic world, described in the previous chapter, offered to the gods through Agni , the fire, with no temple and no image.

…00 to 1200 BCE, a collection of 1,028 hymns in praise of gods such as Agni , the deified fire, Indra the warrior, and Varuṇa , the keeper of ṛta , the cosmic and moral order.

The yajna , the fire sacrifice, is the great act: offerings of butter, grain, and the pressed juice of soma poured into Agni , the fire, who carries them up to the gods.

…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...

…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.