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230 The Secret of the Veda
holds the wide manifestation (of knowledge), shining he holds
the wide manifestation.” We see that these cows of the Panis
by whom Soma becomes clear and bright in his own home, the
home of Agni and the other gods, which we know to be the
vast Truth of Swar, r.ta ˙m br.hat, these shining cows who have
in them the triple nature of the supreme world, tridhātubhir
arus. ībhir, and by whom Soma holds the birth or wide manifestation
of that Truth, 2 are the thoughts which realise the Truth.
This Swar with its three shining worlds in whose wideness there
is the equal fulfilment of the tridhātu, a phrase often used for
the supreme triple principle forming the triune highest world,
tisrah. parāvatah. , is elsewhere described as the wide and fear-free
pasture in which the Cows range at will and take their delight
(ran. ayanti) and here too it is that region where the thoughts of
the Truth take their delight, yatra ran. anti dhītayah. . And it is
said in the next verse that the divine chariot of Soma follows,
getting knowledge, the supreme direction and labours forward,
having vision, by the rays, pūrvām anu pradi´sa ˙m yāti cekitat,
sa ˙m ra´smibhir yatate dar´sato ratho daivyo dar´sato rathah. . This
supreme direction is evidently that of the divine or vast Truth;
these rays are evidently the rays of the Dawn or Sun of Truth;
they are the cows concealed by the Panis, the illumined thoughts,
dhiyah. of the bright hue, r.tasya dhītayah. .
All the internal evidence of the Veda wherever this image
of the Panis, the Cows, the Angirases occurs establishes invariably
the same conclusion. The Panis are the withholders of the
thoughts of the Truth, dwellers in the darkness without knowledge
(tamo avayunam) which Indra and the Angirases by the
Word, by the Sun replace with Light to manifest in its stead the
wideness of the Truth. It is not with physical weapons but with
words that Indra fights the Panis (VI.39.2), pan. īn vacobhir abhi
yodhad indrah. . It will be enough to translate without comment
2 Vayah. . Cf. VI.21.2-3, where it is said that Indra who has the knowledge and who
upholds our words and is by the words increased in the sacrifice, indra ˙m yovidāno
girvāhasa ˙mgīrbhir yajñavr.ddham, forms by the Sun into that which has manifestation of
knowledge the darkness which had extended itself and in which there was no knowledge,
sa it tamo avayuna ˙m tatanvat sūryen. a vayunavac cakāra.