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The Sons of Darkness 229
shining hue of these thoughts, ´sukra ˙m varn. am āsām, is evidently
the same as that ´sukra or ´sveta Aryan hue which is mentioned
in verse 9. Indra carries forward or increases the “colour” of
these thoughts beyond the opposition of the Panis, pra varn. am
atirac chukram; in doing so he slays the Dasyus and protects
or fosters and increases the Aryan “colour”, hatvī dasyūn pra
ārya ˙m varn. am āvat. Moreover these Dasyus are the crooked
ones, vr.jinān, and are conquered by Indra’s works or forms of
knowledge, his “māyā”s by which, as we are elsewhere told,
he overcomes the opposing “māyā”s of the Dasyus, Vritra or
Vala. The straight and the crooked are constantly synonymous
in Veda with the truth and the falsehood. Therefore it is clear
that these Pani Dasyus are crooked powers of the falsehood and
ignorance who set their false knowledge, their false strength,
will and works against the true knowledge, the true strength,
will and works of the gods and the Aryans. The triumph of the
Light is the triumph of the divine knowledge of the Truth against
the darkness of this false or demoniac knowledge; that victory
is the ascent of the Sun, the birth of the Days, the advent of
the Dawn, the release of the herds of the shining Rays and their
mounting to the world of Light.
That the cows are the thoughts of the Truth we are told
clearly enough in IX.111, a hymn to Soma. “By this brilliant
light he, purifying himself, breaks through all hostile powers by
his self-yoked horses, as if by the self-yoked horses of the Sun.
He shines, a stream of the outpressed Soma, purifying himself,
luminous, the brilliant One, when he encompasses all forms (of
things) with the speakers of the Rik, with the seven-mouthed
speakers of the Rik (the Angiras powers). Thou, O Soma findest
that wealth of the Panis; thou by the Mothers (the cows of the
Panis, frequently so designed in other hymns) makest thyself
bright in thy own home (Swar), by the thoughts of the Truth in
thy home, sa ˙m mātr.bhir marjayasi sva ādamar.tasya dhītibhir
dame. As if the Sāma (equal fulfilment, samāne ūrve, inthe
level wideness) of the higher world (parāvatah. ), is that (Swar)
where the thoughts (of the Truth) take their delight. By those
shining ones of the triple world (or triple elemental nature) he