Chapter 5Mandala Five
Book 4. Part Four: Vedic Notes
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[RV V.1–2]
V.1.
1.
S. like great trees sending up a branch. But there are no trees &
in the singular is opposed to this interpretation.
3.
. S. when he throws out or seizes the darkness which is the rope of the collective world binding its activities. If
can = tongue, then it may be, when he has put out the tongue of his cohorts. Otherwise when he has uncoiled the rope that binds together his hosts.
— shines. S. manifests the whole world.
in the sense of light — cows impossible.
— S. increased stream of
is applied & Agni drinks it
. Dakshina is the goddess of Viveka increasing the substance of illumined force. It is not here the Dawn.
. Here an epithet of Dakshina.
4. . S. with Dawn &
Heaven & Earth. But rather Night & Dawn.
5. placed. Can it not mean “helpful, beneficent”?
. For
— cf
&
. Otherwise “Lights” is better.
6. In the lap of the Mother & in the rapturous other world.
Explanation of S. fragrant with
. But
either force or ecstasy.
between Heaven & Earth, in the Pranic worlds.
7. In the Madhya he is
the steed.
8. This is the result of the illumining — in the Tapoloka or Uloka.
.
refers to Para, the highest. S. makes it = 10.
may well here be the worlds, near & far from his own home 11. . S.
12.
S.
. The connection between
,
, has to be examined. Here
with
seems to equal
.
V.2.
1. contain, limit, diminish or even hold.
S. crushed or entirely hidden.
S.
— rather force — cf 2. ..
— cut, ie confined or shaped, defined, & large.
3.
. S.
S.
— in sense of Soma.
5.
— fighter — effective aspirer.
6. . S.
Confiners — cf next verse
.
. Enemies or powers of undelight.
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[RV V.1–2]
Book V ..
. As puissant forces (or, as streams) that discharge upwards their expansion.
tongue or cord .. “put out the tongue” or “uncoiled the cord”. Probably the latter.
becomes bright.
either “supine” or “straining upwards”
— fixed in fixed growths of the world & there active (red) ..
. Decisive against sense of fragrant for
.
strengthen or brighten. Probably latter cf 8.
one to be sought.
— man or world?
..
..
. Decisive against limitation of the sense of to “praise”.
2.
— force or being.
to be.
.
to hold or to form.
. Pr. P. used as a verb.
. Like
continuously or else perpetually.
force.
..
. Those who dwell in the substance of being as its Purushas — the Gods.
. Enemies or Powers of undelight concealed.
referring to
must mean binders, confiners — cf
in the next verse.
Sounds, but how are sounds sharp-weaponed? Perhaps
+
— self-forces. S. sounding flames . S.
S.
.
Why not “rejoice in”?
of any emotion, joy, anger — cf 8. etc. Gr.
.
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[RV V.11]
V.11.1. Agni awake & rightly discerning for a new progress on the good path.
ghrita ..
dakshah .. suvitam 2. The perceiving vision in the sacrifice —
but in v. 3
. The smoke of thee, in the obscure nervous activities of the mind & heart, is turned when it reaches the plane of pure intelligence into perceptive vision.
4.
—
vrin.
(yajnam) approach or manifest 6. Thee, O Agni, the powers of the Strength found placed in the hidden parts of being (the subconscious) established in each object of pleasure; thence by pressure thou art born a mighty force; thee, O Angiras, [they call] the child of Strength.