"Far far away hath Agni chased those Dasyus, and, in the east, hath turned the godless westward."
— Mandala 7

January 1, 1970

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Rigveda
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Variant translations: — Agni assailed repeatedly those Dasyus and from the east turned the unholy ones to the west. — Quoted in Kazanas, N. (2002). Indigenous Indo-Aryans and the Rigveda: Indo-Aryan migration debate. Journal of Indo-European Studies, 30(3-4), 275-334. — He (Agni), the Eastern One, has made those who do not make sacrifices into Westerners. — Quoted in Richard Pischel, Karl F. Geldner - Vedische Studien Vol. 1 -Verlag von W. Kohlhammer (1889), p 302-3