William Quan Judge, The Bhagavad Gita (1890)
[6]I am the sacrifice and sacrificial rite; I am the libation offered to ancestors, and the spices; I am the sacred formula and the fire; I am the food and the sacrificial butter.
BG 9.16
अहं क्रतुरहं यज्ञः स्वधाहमहमौषधम् | मन्त्रोऽहमहमेवाज्यमहमग्निरहं हुतम् ||१६||
ahaṃ kratur ahaṃ yajñaḥ svadhā'ham aham auṣadham | mantro'ham aham evājyam aham agnir ahaṃ hutam || 16 ||
"I am the Vedic ritual, sacrifice, ancestral offering, herb, mantra, oblation, fire, and the offering made."
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Sir Edwin Arnold, The Song Celestial (1885)
[7]I am the Sacrifice! I am the Prayer! I am the Funeral-Cake set for the dead! I am the healing herb! I am the ghee, The Mantra, and the flame, and that which burns!