Mandala 5

"Agni born shone out slaying the Dasyus, the darkness by the Light; he found the Cows, the Waters, Swar."

"Worship thou Rudra for his great good favour: adore the Asura, God, with salutations."

"O Maruts, you raise up rain from the [and] cause-to-rain."

"As the wind, as the wood, as the sea stirs."

"That is the great magic power of this divine greatest seer, Varuna, that no one can challenge, when the diverse flowing streams cannot fill the one ocean with their water."

"And let the patrons of our rites subdue all regions of the earth."

"The vocabulary of the Kaṇva maṇḍala [8] often coincides with that of the Atri maṇḍala [5] when it shows no correspondence with that of other family books. This subject deserves special treatment."

"We need not rely exclusively on the Anukramaṇī to affirm that there were important interactions between the priestly groups represented in Books 1, 5 and 8. As Oldenberg has shown, evidence from the hymns themselves supports this conclusion."

"The connections of Book 5 with Books 1 and 8 and not with the other clan books (2-4, 6-7) is interesting, since it seems to belong to the core RV collection."