These Stones, gnashing their green-tinted jaws, emit sounds like a hundred, a thousand, voices. Their task achieved, these Pressing Stones, noble workers in a noble cause, forestall the offerer in tasting the oblation.
Rig Veda X, 94, 2
They utter loud sounds as they find the sweet Soma. Booming, they gnaw the pulp prepared. These bulls, skillful pounders, bellow aloud as they seize the branch of the reddish shrub.
Rig Veda X, 94, 3
Exalted and inebriated by Soma, they shout, calling upon God through whom they have tasted the ambrosial Soma. They skillfully dance with the sisters, held in firm clasp together, and make the earth resound with their stamping.
Rig Veda X, 94, 4
Sakalya said: Verily, whosoever knows that Being whose body is the earth, whose organ of vision is fire, whose light is the mind and who is the ultimate support of the body and organs in their entirety, he indeed knows, O Yajnavalkya. I know that Being of whom you speak-who is the ultimate support of the body and organs in their entirety. It is the Being who is in this body. Go on, Sakalya. Who is His deity (cause)? Nectar (chyle), said Yajnavalkya.
Yajur Veda, Brihadaranyaka Upanishad III, IX-Yajnavalkya and Vidaghdha, 10
Let the Wise and the Knower both protect you, let the Dreamless and the Sleepless both protect you, let the Guardian and the Wakeful both protect you!
Atharva Veda VIII, 1, 13
