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\nThe Sons of Darkness <\/font><\/b>
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\nW<\/font>E HAVE<\/b> seen, not once but repeatedly, that it is impossible to read into the story of the Angirases, Indra and Sarama, the cave of the Panis and the conquest of
\nthe Dawn, the Sun and the Cows an account of a political and military struggle between Aryan invaders and Dravidian cave
\ndwellers. It is a struggle between the seekers of Light and the powers of Darkness; the cows are the illuminations of the Sun
\nand the Dawn, they cannot be physical cows; the wide fearfree field of the Cows won by Indra for the Aryans is the wide
\nworld of Swar, the world of the solar Illumination, the threefold luminous regions of Heaven. Therefore equally the Panis must
\nbe taken as powers of the cave of Darkness. It is quite true that the Panis are Dasyus or Dasas; they are spoken of constantly by that name, they are described as the Dasa Varna as opposed to the Arya Varna, and
\n<\/span>varn<\/span>̣<\/span>a<\/span><\/i>, colour, is the word used for caste
\nor class in the Brahmanas and later writings, although it does
\nnot therefore follow that it has that sense in the Rig Veda. The Dasyus are the haters of the sacred word; they are those who give
\nnot to the gods the gift or the holy wine, who keep their wealth of cows and horses and other treasure for themselves and do not
\ngive them to the seers; they are those who do not the sacrifice. We may, if we like, suppose that there was a struggle between
\ntwo different cults in India and that the Rishis took their images from the physical struggle between the human representatives of
\nthese cults and applied them to the spiritual conflict, just as they employed the other details of their physical life to symbolise the
\nspiritual sacrifice, the spiritual wealth, the spiritual battle and journey. But it is perfectly certain that in the Rig Veda at least it
\nis the spiritual conflict and victory, not the physical battle and plunder of which they are speaking.
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isolated passages and give them a particular sense which will do well enough there only while ignoring the numerous other pas
\nsages in which that sense is patently inapplicable. We must take as a whole all the references in the Veda to the Panis, their wealth,
\ntheir characteristics, the victory of the Gods, the seers and the Aryans over them and adopt uniformly that conclusion which
\narises from all the passages thus taken together. When we follow this method we find that in many of these passages the idea of the
\nPanis as human beings is absolutely impossible and that they are powers either of physical or of spiritual darkness; in others that
\nthey cannot at all be powers of physical darkness, but may well be either human enemies of the god-seekers and sacrificers or
\nelse enemies of the spiritual Light; in yet others that they cannot be either human enemies or enemies of the physical Light, but
\nare certainly the enemies of the spiritual Light, the Truth and the Thought. From these data there can be only one conclusion,
\nthat they are always and only enemies of the spiritual Light.
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We may take as the master-clue to the general character
\nof these Dasyus the Rik V.14.4, “Agni born shone out slaying the Dasyus, the darkness by the Light; he found the Cows, the
\nWaters, Swar,” agnir <\/i>
\n<\/span>jāto arocata, ghnan dasyūn jyotis<\/span>̣<\/span>ā tamah<\/span>̣<\/span>,
\navindad gā apah<\/span>̣<\/span>
\nsvah<\/span><\/i>. <\/i>There are two great divisions of the
\nDasyus, the Panis who intercept both the cows and the waters
\nbut are especially associated with the refusal of the cows, the Vritras who intercept the waters and the light, but are especially
\nassociated with the withholding of the waters; all Dasyus without exception stand in the way of the ascent to Swar and oppose
\nthe acquisition of the wealth by the Aryan seers. The refusal
\nof the light is their opposition to the vision of Swar, svardrś<\/i>, and the vision of the sun, to the supreme vision of knowledge,
\nupamā ketuh<\/i>; the refusal of the waters is their opposition to the
\nabundant movement of Swar,
\nsvarvatīr apah<\/i>, the movement or
\nstreamings of the Truth,
\n<\/span>r<\/span>̣<\/span>tasya pres<\/span>̣<\/span>ā,
\nr<\/span>̣<\/span>tasya dhārāh<\/span><\/i>; the opposition to the wealth-acquisition is their refusal of the abundant substance of Swar, vasu<\/i>, dhana<\/i>,
\nvāja<\/i>, hiran<\/font>ya<\/i>, that great wealth <\/p>\n

which is found in the sun and in the waters, apsu sūrye mahad<\/i>
\ndhanam<\/i>. Still since the whole struggle is between the Light and  
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\nthe Darkness, the Truth and the Falsehood, the divine Maya and the undivine, all the Dasyus alike are here identified with
\nthe Darkness; and it is by the birth and shining of Agni that the Light is created with which he slays the Dasyus and the
\nDarkness. The historical interpretation will not do at all here, though the naturalistic may pass if we isolate the passage and
\nsuppose the lighting of the sacrificial fire to be the cause of the daily sunrise; but we have to judge from a comparative study of
\nthe Veda and not on the strength of isolated passages.
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\nThe opposition between the Aryans and the Panis or Dasyus
\nis brought out in another hymn of the fifth Mandala and in III.34 we have the expression Arya Varna. We must remember that the
\nDasyus have been identified with the Darkness; therefore the Aryans must be connected with the Light and we actually find
\nthat the light of the Sun is called in the Veda the Aryan Light in contradistinction evidently to the Dasa darkness. Vasishtha also \t\t\t speaks of the three Aryan peoples who are <\/span>
\njyotragrāh<\/span>̣<\/span><\/i>, led by the light, having the light in their front (VII.33.7). The Aryan
\nDasyu question can only be adequately treated by an exhaustive discussion in which all the relevant passages are scrutinised and
\nthe difficulties faced, but for my present purpose this is a sufficient starting-point. We must remember also that we have in <\/p>\n

the Veda the expressions <\/span>ṛtam jyotih<\/span>̣<\/span>,
\nhiran<\/span>̣<\/span>yam jyotih<\/span><\/i>, the true <\/p>\n

light, the golden light, which give us an additional clue. Now
\nthese three epithets of the solar light, arya<\/i>, rta<\/i>, hiranya
\n<\/i>are, I <\/p>\n

suggest, mutually illuminative and almost equivalent. The Sun
\nis the Lord of Truth, therefore its light is the rtam jyotih<\/i>; this
\nlight of truth is that which the Aryan, god or mortal, possesses, and which constitutes his Arya-hood; again the epithet golden
\nis constantly applied to the Sun and gold is in Veda probably the symbol of the substance of the truth, for its substance is the
\nlight which is the golden wealth found in Surya and in the waters of Swar, apsu sūrye<\/i>, —therefore we have the epithet
\n<\/span>
\nhiran<\/span>̣<\/span>yam jyotih<\/span><\/i>. This golden or shining light is the hue,
\nvarṇa<\/i>, of the truth; <\/p>\n

it is also the hue of the thoughts full of that illumination won by
\nthe Aryan, the cows who are bright in colour, śukra, śveta<\/i>, the colour of Light; while the Dasyu, being a power of darkness, is
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black in hue. I suggest that the brightness of the light of the truth,
\n<\/span>jyotih<\/span>̣ <\/span>
\nāryam<\/span><\/i>, is the Arya
\n<\/span>varn<\/span>̣<\/span>a<\/span><\/i>, the hue of these Aryans who
\nare
\n<\/span>jyotiragrāh<\/span>̣<\/span><\/i>; the darkness of the night of the ignorance is the hue of the Panis, the Dā<\/font>sa
\n<\/span>varn<\/span>̣<\/span>a<\/span><\/i>. In this way
\nvarṇa <\/i>would come <\/p>\n

to mean almost the nature or else all those of that particular nature, the colour being the symbol of the nature; and that this
\nidea was a current notion among the ancient Aryans seems to me to be shown by the later use of different colours to distinguish
\nthe four castes, white, red, yellow and black.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\n

The passage in V.34 runs as follows. “He (Indra) desires
\nnot to ascend by the five and by the ten; he cleaves not to him who gives not the Soma even though he grow and increase; he
\novercomes him or else he slays in his impetuous movement; he gives to the god-seeker for his enjoyment the pen full of the
\nCows. Cleaver (of the foe) in the battle-shock, firm holder of the discus (or the wheel), averse from him who gives not the
\nSoma but increaser of the Soma-giver, terrible is Indra and the tamer of all; Aryan, he brings into utter subjection the Dasa. He comes driving this enjoyment of the Pani, robbing him of
\nit, and he apportions entirely to the giver for his enjoyment the wealth rich in hero-powers (lit. in men,
\nsūnaram vasu, vīra<\/i> and
\n<\/span>nr<\/span>̣<\/span><\/i> being often used synonymously); that man who makes
\nwroth the strength of Indra is held back manifoldly in a difficult
\njourneying, (durge<\/i>1<\/font><\/sup> cana dhriyate <\/i>
\nā <\/i><\/span>puru<\/i>). When Maghavan has known in the shining cows the Two who are rich in wealth and have all forces, he growing in knowledge makes a third his
\nhelper and rushing impetuously looses upward the multitude of the cows (gavyam<\/i>) by the help of his fighters.” And the last Rik
\nof the Sukta speaks of the Aryan (god or man) arriving at the \t\t\t˙<\/i>
\nhighest knowledge-vision (upamām ketum aryah<\/i>), the waters
\nin their meeting nourishing him and his housing a strong and brilliant force of battle,
\n<\/span>ks<\/span>̣<\/span>atram amavat tves<\/span>̣<\/span>am<\/span><\/i>.
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From what we already know of these symbols we can easily
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\nThe Rishis pray always to the gods to make their path to the highest bliss easy of going and thornless,
\nsuga<\/i>; durga <\/i>is the opposite of this easy going, it is the path beset
\nby manifold (puru<\/i>) dangers and sufferings and difficulties.  
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\ngrasp the inner sense of the hymn. Indra, the Divine Mind-Power takes their secret wealth from the powers of the Ignorance with
\nwhom he refuses to ally himself even when they are rich and prosper; he gives the imprisoned herds of the illumined Dawn to
\nthe man of the sacrifice who desires the godheads. He is himself the Aryan who brings the life of the ignorance into complete
\nsubjection to the higher life so that it yields up to it all the wealth it holds. The use of the words
\nārya<\/i> and arya <\/i>to signify the gods, not only in this but in other passages, tends to show
\nin itself that the opposition of Arya and Dasyu is not at all a national or tribal or merely human distinction, but has a deeper
\nsignificance. The fighters are certainly the seven Angirases; for they and not the Maruts, which is Sayana’s interpretation of
\n<\/span>satvabhih<\/span>̣<\/span><\/i>, are Indra’s helpers in the release of the Cows. But the
\nthree persons whom Indra finds or comes to know by entering among the bright cows, by possessing the trooping illuminations
\nof the Thought, are more difficult to fix. In all probability it is these three by whom the seven rays of the Angiras-knowledge
\nare raised to ten so that they pass successfully through the ten months and release the sun and the cows; for it is after finding or
\nknowing the two and getting help of the third that Indra releases the cows of the Panis. They may also be connected with the symbolism of the three Aryan peoples led by the light and the three luminous worlds of Swar; for the attainment of the supreme
\nknowledge-vision,
\nupamā ketuh<\/i>, is the final result of their action
\nand this supreme knowledge is that which has the vision of Swar
\nand stands in its three luminous worlds,
\nrocanāni<\/i>, as we find
\nin III.2.14,
\n<\/span>svardr<\/span>̣ś<\/span>am ketum divo rocanasthām us<\/span>̣<\/span>arbudham<\/span><\/i>,
\n“the knowledge-vision that sees Swar, that stands in the shining
\nworlds, that awakes in the dawn.”
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\nIn III.34 Vishwamitra gives us the expression <\/span>
\nārya
\nvarn<\/span>̣<\/span>a<\/span><\/i>and
\nat the same time the key to its psychological significance. Three verses of the hymn (8-10) run as follows: “(They hymn) the
\nsupremely desirable, the ever overcoming, the giver of strength who wins possession of Swar and the divine waters; the thinkers
\nhave joy in the wake of Indra who takes possession of the earth and the heaven. Indra wins possession of the Steeds, wins the
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Sun, wins the Cow of the many enjoyments; he wins the golden enjoyment, having slain the Dasyus he fosters (or protects) the
\nAryan varṇa<\/i>; Indra wins the herbs and the days, the trees and
\nthe mid-world; he pierces Vala and impels forward the speaker of the words; so he becomes the tamer of those who set against
\nhim their will in works, (abhikratūnām<\/i>).” We have here the
\nsymbolic elements of all the wealth won by Indra for the Aryan, and it includes the Sun, the days, the earth, the heavens, the
\nmiddle world, the horses, the growths of earth, herbs and trees (vanaspatīn<\/i>
\nin the double sense, lords of the forest and lords of enjoyment); and we have as against Vala and his Dasyus the
\nAryan varṇa <\/i>.
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\n

But in the verses that precede (4-6) we have already the word
\nvarṇa <\/i>as the hue of the Aryan thoughts, the thoughts that are true
\nand full of light. “Indra, Swar-conquering, bringing to birth the
\ndays assailed and conquered by the desirers (the Angirases) these armies (of the Dasyus); he made to shine for man the knowledge
\nvision of the days (ketum ahnām<\/i>), he found the Light for the vast
\nenjoyment; . . . he made conscious in knowledge these thoughts for his adorer, he carried forward (beyond the obstruction of the
\nDasyus) this bright varṇa <\/i>of these (thoughts), acetayad dhīya<\/i> <\/p>\n

<\/span>imā jaritre, pra imam varn<\/span>̣<\/span>am
\natirac chukram āsām<\/span><\/i>. <\/i>They set
\nin action (or, praise) many great and perfect works of the great
\nIndra; by his strength he crushes, in his overwhelming energy, by his workings of knowledge (<\/span>māyābhih<\/span>̣<\/span><\/i>) the crooked Dasyus.”
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\n

We find here the Vedic phrase ketum ahnām<\/i>, the knowledge
\nvision of the days, by which is meant the light of the Sun of Truth that leads to the vast beatitude; for the “days” are those
\nproduced through Indra’s conquest of Swar for man following as we know upon his destruction of the Pani armies with the
\nhelp of the Angirases and the ascent of the Sun and the shining Cows. It is for man and as powers of man that all this is done by
\nthe gods, not on their own account since they possess already; —for him that as the
\n<\/span>Nr<\/span>̣<\/span><\/i>, the divine Man or Purusha, Indra
\nholds many strengths of that manhood,
\n<\/span>nr<\/span>̣<\/span>vad… naryā purūn<\/span>̣<\/span>i<\/span><\/i>;
\nhim he awakes to the knowledge of these thoughts which are
\nsymbolised as the shining cows released from the Panis; and the  
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\nshining hue of these thoughts,
\n<\/span>śukram varn<\/span>̣<\/span>am āśām<\/span><\/i>, is evidently
\nthe same as that
\nśukra<\/i> or śveta <\/i>Aryan hue which is mentioned
\nin verse 9. Indra carries forward or increases the “colour” of these thoughts beyond the opposition of the Panis,
\npra varṇam<\/i>
\natirac chukram<\/i>; in doing so he slays the Dasyus and protects
\nor fosters and increases the Aryan “colour”,
\n<\/span>hatvī dasyūn pra āryam varn<\/span>̣<\/span>am āvat<\/span><\/i>. <\/i>Moreover these Dasyus are the crooked
\nones, vrjinān<\/i>, and are conquered by Indra’s works or forms of
\nknowledge, his “māyā<\/i>“s by which, as we are elsewhere told,
\nhe overcomes the opposing “māyā<\/i>“s of the Dasyus, Vritra or
\nVala. The straight and the crooked are constantly synonymous in Veda with the truth and the falsehood. Therefore it is clear
\nthat these Pani Dasyus are crooked powers of the falsehood and ignorance who set their false knowledge, their false strength,
\nwill and works against the true knowledge, the true strength, will and works of the gods and the Aryans. The triumph of the
\nLight is the triumph of the divine knowledge of the Truth against the darkness of this false or demoniac knowledge; that victory
\nis the ascent of the Sun, the birth of the Days, the advent of the Dawn, the release of the herds of the shining Rays and their
\nmounting to the world of Light.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\nThat the cows are the thoughts of the Truth we are told
\nclearly enough in IX.111, a hymn to Soma. “By this brilliant light he, purifying himself, breaks through all hostile powers by
\nhis self-yoked horses, as if by the self-yoked horses of the Sun. He shines, a stream of the outpressed Soma, purifying himself,
\nluminous, the brilliant One, when he encompasses all forms (of things) with the speakers of the Rik, with the seven-mouthed
\nspeakers of the Rik (the Angiras powers). Thou, O Soma findest that wealth of the Panis; thou by the Mothers (the cows of the
\nPanis, frequently so designed in other hymns) makest thyself bright in thy own home (Swar), by the thoughts of the Truth in <\/p>\n

thy home, sam <\/i> <\/span>mātr<\/span>̣<\/span>bhih<\/span>̣
\n<\/span>marjayasi sva ā dame r<\/span>̣<\/span>tasya dhītibhir<\/span><\/i> dame. <\/i>As if the Sama (equal fulfilment,
\nsamāne ūrve<\/i>, in the
\nlevel wideness) of the higher world (<\/span>parāvatah<\/span>̣<\/span><\/i>), is that (Swar)
\nwhere the thoughts (of the Truth) take their delight. By those
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holds the wide manifestation (of knowledge), shining he holds the wide manifestation.” We see that these cows of the Panis
\nby whom Soma becomes clear and bright in his own home, the home of Agni and the other gods, which we know to be the
\nvast Truth of Swar,
\n<\/span>r<\/span>̣<\/span>tam br<\/span>̣<\/span>hat<\/span><\/i>, these shining cows who have
\nin them the triple nature of the supreme world,
\n<\/span>tridhātubhir arus<\/span>̣<\/span>ibhīh<\/span><\/i>, and by whom Soma holds the birth or wide manifestation of that Truth,2<\/font><\/sup> are the thoughts which realise the Truth. This Swar with its three shining worlds in whose wideness there
\nis the equal fulfilment of the
\ntridhātu<\/i>, a phrase often used for
\nthe supreme triple principle forming the triune highest world,
\n<\/span>tisrah<\/span>̣ <\/span>
\nparāvatah<\/span><\/i><\/font>, is elsewhere described as the wide and fear-free
\npasture in which the Cows range at will and take their delight
\n(<\/span>ran<\/span>̣<\/span>ayanti<\/span><\/i>) and here too it is that region where the thoughts of
\nthe Truth take their delight, yatra <\/i>
\n<\/span>ran<\/span>̣<\/span>anti
\ndhītayah<\/span><\/i>. And it is <\/p>\n

said in the next verse that the divine chariot of Soma follows, getting knowledge, the supreme direction and labours forward,
\nhaving vision, by the rays,
\n<\/span>pūrvām anu pradiśam yāti cekitat, sam raśmibhir yatate darśato ratho
\ndaivyo darśato rathah<\/span>̣<\/span>.<\/span><\/i>. <\/i>This
\nsupreme direction is evidently that of the divine or vast Truth; these rays are evidently the rays of the Dawn or Sun of Truth;
\nthey are the cows concealed by the Panis, the illumined thoughts,
\n<\/span>dhiyah<\/span>̣<\/span>,<\/span><\/i> of the bright hue,
\n<\/span> r<\/span>̣<\/span>tasya
\ndhītayah<\/span>̣<\/span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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All the internal evidence of the Veda wherever this image of the Panis, the Cows, the Angirases occurs establishes invariably the same conclusion. The Panis are the withholders of the thoughts of the Truth, dwellers in the darkness without knowledge (tamo avayunam<\/i>) which Indra and the Angirases by the Word, by the Sun replace with Light to manifest in its stead the
\nwideness of the Truth. It is not with physical weapons but with words that Indra fights the Panis (VI.39.2),
\n<\/span>pan<\/span>̣ī<\/span>n vacobhir abhi yodhad indrah<\/span>̣<\/span>.<\/span><\/i>
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upholds our words and is by the words increased in the sacrifice, indram yo
\nvidāno<\/i>
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\n<\/span>girvāhasam gīrbhir yaj\u00f1avr<\/font><\/span>̣<\/font><\/span>ddham<\/font><\/span><\/i>, forms by the Sun into that which has manifestation of knowledge the darkness which had extended itself and in which there was no knowledge,
\nsa it tamo avayunam tatanvat <\/i>
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\nthe hymn in which this phrase occurs so as to show finally the nature of this symbolism. “Of this divine and rapturous seer
\n(Soma), bearer of the sacrifice, this honeyed speaker with the illumined thought, O god, join to us, to the speaker of the word
\nthe impulsions that are led by the cows of light (<\/span>is<\/span>̣<\/span>o
\ngoagrāh<\/span>̣<\/span><\/i>). <\/p>\n

He it was who desired the shining ones (the cows, usrāh<\/i>) all about the hill, truth-yoked, yoking his car with the thoughts of
\nthe Truth,
\n<\/span>r<\/span>̣<\/span>tadhītibhir r<\/span>̣<\/span>tayug
\nyujānah<\/span><\/i>; (then) Indra broke the
\nunbroken hill-level of Vala, by the words he fought against the
\nPanis. He it was (Soma) who as the Moon-Power (Indu) day and night and through the years made the lightless nights to shine
\nout, and they held the vision of the days; he created the dawns pure in their birth. He it was becoming luminous who made full
\nof light the lightless ones; he made the many (dawns) shine by the Truth, he went with horses yoked by the Truth, with the wheel
\nthat finds Swar, satisfying (with the wealth) the doer of works.” It is always the thought, the Truth, the word that is associated
\nwith the Cows of the Panis; by the words of Indra the Divine Mind-Power those who withhold the cows are conquered; that
\nwhich was dark becomes light; the chariot drawn by the horses yoked by the Truth finds (by knowledge,
\nsvarvidā nābhinā<\/i>) the
\nluminous vastnesses of being and consciousness and delight now concealed from our vision. “By the
\nbrahma <\/i>Indra pierces Vala,
\n   conceals the darkness, makes Swar visible” (II.24.3), ud <\/i>
\n<\/span>gā ājad abhinad brahman<\/span><\/i>ā<\/i><\/font><\/span> valam agūhat
\ntamo vyacaks<\/span>̣<\/span>ayat svah<\/span>̣<\/span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\nThe whole Rig Veda is a triumph-chant of the powers of
\nLight, and their ascent by the force and vision of the Truth to its possession in its source and seat where it is free from the
\nattack of the falsehood. “By Truth the cows (illumined thoughts) enter into the Truth; labouring towards the Truth the Truth one
\nconquers; the aggressive force of the Truth seeks the cows of Light and goes breaking through (the enemy); for Truth the two
\nwide ones (Heaven and Earth) become multitudinous and deep, for Truth the two supreme Mothers give their yield,”
\n<\/span>r<\/span>̣<\/span>tena gāva r<\/span>̣<\/span>tam
\nā viveśuh;<\/span>̣<\/span> r<\/span>̣<\/span>tam
\nyemāna r<\/span>̣<\/span>tam id vanoti, r<\/span>̣<\/span>tasya
\nśus<\/span>̣<\/span>mas turayā u gavyuh<\/span>̣<\/span>;
\nr<\/span>̣<\/span>tāya pr<\/span>̣<\/span>thvī bahule
\ngabhīre, r<\/span>̣<\/span>tāya dhenū parame duhāte<\/span><\/i> (IV.23.9-10).
\n  <\/i>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

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