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226 The Secret of the Veda
black in hue. I suggest that the brightness of the light of the truth,
jyotih. āryam, istheAryavarn. a, the hue of these Aryans who
are jyotiragrāh. ; the darkness of the night of the ignorance is the
hue of the Panis, the Dāsa varn. a. Inthiswayvarn. a would come
to mean almost the nature or else all those of that particular
nature, the colour being the symbol of the nature; and that this
idea was a current notion among the ancient Aryans seems to me
to be shown by the later use of different colours to distinguish
the four castes, white, red, yellow and black.
The passage in V.34 runs as follows. “He (Indra) desires
not to ascend by the five and by the ten; he cleaves not to him
who gives not the Soma even though he grow and increase; he
overcomes him or else he slays in his impetuous movement; he
gives to the god-seeker for his enjoyment the pen full of the
Cows. Cleaver (of the foe) in the battle-shock, firm holder of
the discus (or the wheel), averse from him who gives not the
Soma but increaser of the Soma-giver, terrible is Indra and the
tamer of all; Aryan, he brings into utter subjection the Dāsa.
He comes driving this enjoyment of the Pani, robbing him of
it, and he apportions entirely to the giver for his enjoyment
the wealth rich in hero-powers (lit. in men, sūnara ˙m vasu, vīra
and nr. being often used synonymously); that man who makes
wroth the strength of Indra is held back manifoldly in a difficult
journeying, (durge 1 cana dhriyate ā puru). When Maghavan has
known in the shining cows the Two who are rich in wealth
and have all forces, he growing in knowledge makes a third his
helper and rushing impetuously looses upward the multitude of
the cows (gavyam) by the help of his fighters.” And the last Rik
of the Sukta speaks of the Aryan (god or man) arriving at the
highest knowledge-vision (upamā ˙m ketum aryah. ), the waters
in their meeting nourishing him and his housing a strong and
brilliant force of battle, ks.atram amavat tves.am.
From what we already know of these symbols we can easily
1 The Rishis pray always to the gods to make their path to the highest bliss easy of
going and thornless, suga; durga is the opposite of this easy going, it is the path beset
by manifold (puru) dangers and sufferings and difficulties.