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Chapter XVII
The Seven-Headed Thought,
Swar and the Dashagwas
THE LANGUAGE of the hymns establishes, then, a double
aspect for the Angiras Rishis. One belongs to the external
garb of the Veda; it weaves together its naturalistic
imagery of the Sun, the Flame, the Dawn, the Cow, the Horse,
the Wine, the sacrificial Hymn; the other extricates from that
imagery the internal sense. The Angirases are sons of the Flame,
lustres of the Dawn, givers and drinkers of the Wine, singers
of the Hymn, eternal youths and heroes who wrest for us the
Sun, the Cows, the Horses and all treasures from the grasp
of the sons of darkness. But they are also seers of the Truth,
finders and speakers of the word of the Truth and by the power
of the Truth they win for us the wide world of Light and Immortality
which is described in the Veda as the Vast, the True,
the Right and as the own home of this Flame of which they
are the children. This physical imagery and these psychological
indications are closely interwoven and they cannot be separated
from each other. Therefore we are obliged by ordinary common
sense to conclude that the Flame of which the Right and
the Truth is the own home is itself a Flame of that Right and
Truth, that the Light which is won by the Truth and by the
force of true thought is not merely a physical light, the cows
which Sarama finds on the path of the Truth not merely physical
herds, the Horses not merely the wealth of the Dravidians
conquered by invading Aryan tribes, nor even merely images of
the physical Dawn, its light and its swiftly moving rays and the
darkness of which the Panis and Vritra are the defenders not
merely the darkness of the Indian or the Arctic night. We have
even been able to hazard a reasonable hypothesis by which we
can disentangle the real sense of this imagery and discover the