Canto 7Mandala Seven
Book 3. Part Three: Commentaries and Annotated Translations
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[RV VII.1.1]
Hymns of Vasishtha
to
5Agni
VII.1.
1. Men have brought the Flame to birth by their thinkings from
the tinders by the movement of the two hands, expressed by the
word, the far-seer, the master of the house, the traveller.
10Heaven and Earth = mind and physical being, are the two
tinders
The two hands are the two hands of the Sun,
= thought, light, finger. All mean the same thing, for
the fingers are those of the two hands of the Sun,
15Well-expressed (
) by the word: external sense = praised.
to move, cf
or
— Greek
20 — the plane of
flaming light