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"42 THE DOCTRINE OF MAYAthe world, R.V. x. 190. We here insert the formerin our own translation, as it is one of the typicalhymns of the Rigvedic speculation and isimportantfor our purposeR.V. x. 125.!Vac.1. I wander with the Rudras and the Vasus,With the Adityas and the Visve Devas ;I support both, Mitra and Varuna,Indra and Agni, and the Asvins two.2. I support Soma, swelling with juice,I support Tvastr, Pusan and Bhaga ;Tis I who give wealth to the zealous offerer,To the sacrificer who presses Soma.3. I am the queen, the showerer of riches,The knowing, first of the worshipped ones ;Me have the gods in many forms displayed,Me, living everywhere and entering all things.ever passes death. There is no other road to go."Cf.V.S. xxxii. 2.Muir, p. 374. All winkings of the eye have sprung fromPurusa, the resplendent. No one has limited him eitherabove, or below, or in the middle.The first two verses of R.V. x. 90 are given in the Svetasvat.Up. iii. 14, 15. Cf. A.V. xix. 4, 5. 6. 7. Colebrooke sMisc. Essays,i.167 and note in p. 309.1For translations of the hymn, see Colebrooke, AsiaticResearches, vol. viii., Calcutta, 1805, or MiscellaneousEssays, i., p. 28 ; Weber s article on Vac and Logos,"Ind. Stud., ix. (1865), 473 ; Deussen, Geschichte, vol. i. i.146 f. ; Griffith, i. 171 ; Weber, xviii. 117. The wholehymn is found with slight variants in A.V. iv. 30.