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The Seven-Headed Thought, Swar and the Dashagwas 185
It is when enriched in light and force of thought by the Angirases
that Indra completes his victorious journey and reaches the goal
on the mountain; “In him our primal fathers, the seven seers,
the Navagwas, increase their plenty, him victorious on his march
and breaking through (to the goal), standing on the mountain,
inviolate in speech, most luminous-forceful by his thinkings,”
naks.ad-dābha ˙mtaturi˙mparvates.t.hām, adroghavāca ˙m matibhih.
´savis.t.ham (VI.22.2). It is by singing the Rik, the hymn of illumination,
that they find the solar illuminations in the cave of
our being, arcanto 7 gā avindan (I.62.2). It is by the stubh, the
all-supporting rhythm of the hymn of the seven seers, by the
vibrating voice of the Navagwas that Indra becomes full of the
power of Swar, svaren. a svaryah. and by the cry of the Dashagwas
that he rends Vala in pieces (I.62.4). For this cry is the voice of
the higher heaven, the thunder that cries in the lightning-flash
of Indra, and the advance of the Angirases on their path is the
forward movement of this cry of the heavens, pra brahmān. o
a ˙ngiraso naks.anta, pra krandanur nabhanyasya vetu (VII.42.1);
for we are told that the voice of Brihaspati the Angirasa discovering
the Sun and the Dawn and the Cow and the light of
the Word is the thunder of Heaven, br.haspatir us.asa ˙m sūrya ˙m
gām, arka ˙m viveda stanayann iva dyauh. (X.67.5). It is by the
satya mantra, the true thought expressed in the rhythm of the
truth, that the hidden light is found and the Dawn brought to
birth, gūd. ha ˙mjyotih. pitaro anvavindan, satyamantrā ajanayann
us. āsam (VII.76.4). For these are the Angirases who speak aright,
itthā vadadbhih. a ˙ngirobhih. (VI.18.5), masters of the Rik who
place perfectly their thought, svādhībhir r.kvabhih. (VI.32.2);
they are the sons of heaven, heroes of the Mighty Lord who
speak the truth and think the straightness and therefore they
are able to hold the seat of illumined knowledge, to mentalise
the supreme abode of the sacrifice, r.ta ˙m ´sa ˙msanta r.ju dīdhyānā,
divas putrāso asurasya vīrāh. ;vipra˙mpadam a ˙ngiraso dadhānā,
yajñasya dhāma prathama ˙m mananta (X.67.2).
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Arcati (r.c) in the Veda means to shine and to sing the Rik; arka means sun, light and
the Vedic hymn.