Water

but when you withhold those things from them and come between them and what they crave, they go out as a fire goes out when the wood fails, and they perish and dwindle away as fish perish when the water fails.

When he moved along the western direction, having become Varuṇa he moved along, having made the waters food-eating.

With the power of Indra, let the sin-free waters sprinkle and wash away impurity from us.

Waters go to him, rain goes to him, faith goes to him, consecration goes to him, sacrifice goes to him, the world goes to him, food goes to him, the enjoyment of food goes to him — so it is for him who knows thus.

37 — Your likeness, when you worship for show, is the likeness of one who wore himself out getting water and took it up in his palm:

These two baptisms he sent forth from the wound of his pierced side, to the end that those who believed in his blood might be washed with water, and those who had washed with water might also drink his blood.

If from this point I should go on to pursue all, or many, the things I might recall concerning the authority of this element, how great its power or its grace, how many its devices, how many its offices, how great an instrument it brings to the world, I fear I might seem to have gathered together the praises of water rather than the rationale of baptism — though by that I would teach the more full …

Therefore all waters, from the prerogative of their original origin, attain the sacrament of sanctification when God is invoked.

gold, fire, water, and his own officer are the ten instruments of proof.

Gold, fire, water, and the treatises on *dharma*— the king should place these pure and beneficial things in the middle of the court.

Gold, fire, and water are the eyes, the heart is the king's conscience, and his own officer is the feet.