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228 The Secret of the Veda
Sun, wins the Cow of the many enjoyments; he wins the golden
enjoyment, having slain the Dasyus he fosters (or protects) the
Aryan varn. a; Indra wins the herbs and the days, the trees and
the mid-world; he pierces Vala and impels forward the speaker
of the words; so he becomes the tamer of those who set against
him their will in works, (abhikratūnām).” We have here the
symbolic elements of all the wealth won by Indra for the Aryan,
and it includes the Sun, the days, the earth, the heavens, the
middle world, the horses, the growths of earth, herbs and trees
(vanaspatīn in the double sense, lords of the forest and lords
of enjoyment); and we have as against Vala and his Dasyus the
Aryan varn. a.
But in the verses that precede (4-6) we have already the word
varn. a as the hue of the Aryan thoughts, the thoughts that are true
and full of light. “Indra, Swar-conquering, bringing to birth the
days assailed and conquered by the desirers (the Angirases) these
armies (of the Dasyus); he made to shine for man the knowledgevision
of the days (ketum ahnām), he found the Light for the vast
enjoyment; . . . he made conscious in knowledge these thoughts
for his adorer, he carried forward (beyond the obstruction of the
Dasyus) this bright varn. a of these (thoughts), acetayad dhiya
imā jaritre, pra ima ˙m varn. am atirac chukram āsām. They set
in action (or, praise) many great and perfect works of the great
Indra; by his strength he crushes, in his overwhelming energy, by
his workings of knowledge (māyābhih. ) the crooked Dasyus.”
We find here the Vedic phrase ketum ahnām, the knowledgevision
of the days, by which is meant the light of the Sun of
Truth that leads to the vast beatitude; for the “days” are those
produced through Indra’s conquest of Swar for man following
as we know upon his destruction of the Pani armies with the
help of the Angirases and the ascent of the Sun and the shining
Cows. It is for man and as powers of man that all this is done by
the gods, not on their own account since they possess already;
— for him that as the Nr., the divine Man or Purusha, Indra
holds many strengths of that manhood, nr.vad ...naryā purūn. i;
him he awakes to the knowledge of these thoughts which are
symbolised as the shining cows released from the Panis; and the