Vedic India As Embodied Principally in the Rig-Veda
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. . — As he flies along on airy paths, Vata never rests on any day .... For what place was he born ? and from whence came he, — the vital breath of gods, the world's great offspring? The god, where'er he will, moves at his pleasure; his rushing sound we hear, — his form was never seen. ^ . . ." 38. With this god we close the cycle of Vedic gods — Dyaus, Varuna, Mitra, Agni, Soma, Yama, Vayu — whom we can trace with absolute certainty to an Indo-Eranian past and identify with corresponding divin...e beings in the Avesta. Further researches no * There is, in one of the Brahmanas, a story invented to account for this privilege. It tells how several gods once ran a race for the first drink of Soma, and Vayu (naturally !) won. This is the way in which the Brahmanas dispose of all obscure or puzzling points — by stories made up to explain them. The result is generally obscurity doubly intensified, confusion inextricable, often sickening absurdities, and someWra&i, — gems of philosophy and poetry.
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