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198 The Secret of the Veda
diminish not (limit not or hurt not) the workings of the gods, not
violating them they move (to their goal) by (the strength of) the
Vasus.” It is evident that the seven Angirases, whether human or
divine, represent different principles of the Knowledge, Thought
or Word, the seven-headed thought, the seven-mouthed word of
Brihaspati, and in the level wideness these are harmonised in a
universal knowledge; the error, crookedness, falsehood by which
men violate the workings of the gods and by which different
principles of their being, consciousness, knowledge enter into
confused conflict with each other, have been removed by the eye
or vision of the divine Dawn.
The hymn closes with the aspiration of the Vasishthas towards
this divine and blissful Dawn as leader of the herds and
mistress of plenty and again as leader of the felicity and the truths
(sūnr.tānām). They desire to arrive at the same achievement as
the primal seers, the fathers and it would follow that these are
the human and not the divine Angirases. In any case the sense
of the Angiras legend is fixed in all its details, except the exact
identity of the Panis and the hound Sarama, and we can turn
to the consideration of the passages in the opening hymns of
the fourth Mandala in which the human fathers are explicitly
mentioned and their achievement described. These hymns of
Vamadeva are the most illuminating and important for this aspect
of the Angiras legend and they are in themselves among the
most interesting in the Rig Veda.