ఋగ్వేద ఖిలాన్తర్గత శ్రీ ప్రత్యఙ్గిరా సూక్తమ్

Forty-nine verses from the Khila portion of the Rigveda, and this is the Vedic stratum out of which the goddess Pratyangira was later drawn: at this stage she is not a figure at all but a set of hymns for turning hostile rites back on the one who sent them. What the verses ask for is stated as directions rather than as a form — make us without rivals in front, kindly to the south, always safe behind, auspicious to the north within the house. The closing verses are counter-sorcery in the plainest terms, asking Agni to bind those who wrong an upright man and lead them to the seat of the son of Vivasvat. A second recension of the same Khila hymn stands in this corpus.