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156 The Secret of the Veda
Daivodasi (I.130.3), “the treasure of heaven hidden in the secret
cavern like the young of the Bird, within the infinite rock, like
a pen of the cows”, avindad divo nihita ˙m guhā nidhi ˙m verna
garbha ˙m parivītam a´smani anante antar a´smani, vraja ˙m vajrī
gavām iva sis. āsan.
The passages in which the connection of the two legends
or their identity appear, are numerous; I will only cite a few
that are typical. We have in one of the hymns that speak at
length of this legend, I.62, “O Indra, O Puissant, thou with the
Dashagwas (the Angirases) didst tear Vala with the cry; hymned
by the Angirases, thou didst open the Dawns with the Sun and
with the Cows the Soma.” We have VI.17.3, “Hear the hymn
and increase by the words; make manifest the Sun, slay the foe,
cleave out the Cows, O Indra.” We read in VII.98.6, “All this
wealth of cows that thou seest around thee by the eye of the Sun
is thine, thou art the sole lord of the cows, O Indra,” gavām asi
gopatir eka indra, and to show of what kind of cows Indra is the
lord, we have in III.31, a hymn of Sarama and the Cows, “The
victorious (Dawns) clove to him and they knew a great light
out of the darkness; knowing the Dawns went upward to him,
Indra became the sole lord of the Cows,” patir gavām abhavad
eka indrah. , and the hymn goes on to tell how it was by the
mind and by the discovery of the whole path of the Truth that
the seven sages, the Angirases drove up the Cows out of their
strong prison and how Sarama, knowing, came to the cavern in
the hill and to the voice of the imperishable herds. We have the
same connection with the Dawns and the finding of the wide
solar light of Swar in VII.90.4, “The Dawns broke forth perfect
in light and unhurt, they (the Angirases) meditating found the
wide Light (uru jyotih. ); they who desire opened the wideness of
the Cows, the waters flowed on them from heaven.”
So too in II.19.3 we have the Days and the Sun and the
Cows, — “He brought to its birth the Sun, found the Cows,
effecting out of the Night the manifestations of the days.” In
IV.1, the Dawns and the Cows are identified, “The good milkers
whose pen was the rock, the shining ones in their concealing
prison they drove upward, the Dawns answering their call,”