ৱৈদিক আৰতী (যজুৰ্ৱেদ মংত্ৰ)

Three verses from the Yajurveda used as an arati, with their references printed beside them, which is unusual and is the point of the record. The first calls on the gods in three groups of eleven — you gods who are eleven in heaven, eleven on the earth, and eleven dwelling in the waters by your greatness — and asks them to accept this sacrifice. The second is addressed to Night, coming with the dust of the earth and standing wide along the seat of heaven, the darkness moving toward brightness. The third asks that this offering be productive, for the welfare of ten men and of the whole company, that Agni make progeny abundant, and that food and milk and seed be placed in us. It belongs to the reformist practice that replaced Puranic aratis with Vedic verses.