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The Angiras Rishis 171
illumined (acitram, that which has not received the varied light
of the dawn, the night of our ordinary darkness).” We see here
the same characteristics of the Angiras action, the eternal youth
and force of Agni (agne yavis.t.ha), the possession and utterance
of the Word, the seerhood, the doing of the work of sacrifice,
the right movement on the great path which leads as we shall see
to the world of the Truth, to the vast and luminous bliss. The
Maruts are even said to be (X.78) as it were “Angirases with
their Sama hymns, they who take all forms,” vi´svarūpāa˙ngiraso
na sāmabhih. .
All this action and movement are made possible by the coming
of Usha, the Dawn. Usha also is described as a ˙ngirastamā
and in addition as indratamā. The power of Agni, the Angiras
power, manifests itself also in the lightning of Indra and in the
rays of the Dawn. Two passages may be cited which throw light
on this aspect of the Angiras force. The first is VII.79.2-3. “The
Dawns make their rays to shine out in the extremities of heaven,
they labour like men who are set to a work. Thy rays set fleeing
the darkness, they extend the Light as if the sun were extending
its two arms. Usha has become (or, come into being) most full of
Indra power (indratamā), opulent in riches and has given birth
to the inspirations of knowledge for our happy going (or for
good and bliss), the goddess, daughter of Heaven, most full of
Angirashood (a ˙ngirastamā), orders her riches for the doer of
good works.” The riches in which Usha is opulent cannot be
anything else than the riches of the Light and the Power of the
Truth; full of Indra power, the power of the divine illumined
mind, she gives the inspirations of that mind (´sravā ˙msi) which
lead us towards the Bliss, and by the flaming radiant Angiraspower
in her she bestows and arranges her treasures for those
who do aright the great work and thus move rightly on the path,
itthā naks.anto a ˙ngirasvat.
The second passage is in VII.75. “Dawn, heaven-born, has
opened up (the veil of darkness) by the Truth and she comes making
manifest the vastness (mahimānam), she has drawn away
the veil of harms and of darkness (druhas tamah. ) and all that
is unloved; most full of Angirashood she manifests the paths (of