May the broad-nosed dark-hued pair, the life stealers, the messengers of Yama who run in men’s wake, restore to us today a life of happiness, that we may live to see the sun!
Rig Veda X, 14, 12
[To the priests] For Yama press the Soma-juice, To Yama offer the sacrifice. Toward Yama it mounts, a perfect offering, with Agni as herald going before.
Rig Veda X, 14, 13
Present to Yama an offering rich in ghee; come forward and take your places. May he conduct us to the Gods, so that in their midst we may live forever!
Rig Veda X, 14, 14
The offering steeped most richly in honey present now to the royal Yama. We offer homage to the Seers of old, to the pioneers who discovered the way.
Rig Veda X, 14, 15
On this subject Janaka, Emperor of Videha, said to Budila, the son of Asvatarasva: Well, how is it that you, who called yourself a knower of the Gayatri, have come to he an elephant and are carrying me? He replied: Because, Your Majesty, I did not know its mouth. Janaka said: Fire is its mouth. If people put a large quantity of fuel into the fire, it is all burnt up. Similarly, a man who knows this, even if he commits a great many sins, consumes them all and becomes pure, clean and free from decay and death.
Yajur Veda, Brihadaranyaka Upanishad V, XIV-The Sacred Gayatri, 8
