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""tree around the trunk." 3 A.V. x. 7. 17, and 38.""""DEVELOPMENT OF ITS CONCEPTION 45Aditi is heaven, Aditi atmosphere,Aditi mother, she father, she son ;All the gods are Aditi, the five races,Aditi is what is born, Aditi what is to be born."A.V. vii. 6. i. 1Whoever know the Brahman in man, they know themost exalted one ;whoever know the most exalted one,and whoever know Prajapati, whoever know the chiefBrahmana, they know also accordingly the Skambha.""Thegreat being (Yaksa) 2 is absorbed in austere fervour in the midst of the world, on the surface of the waters.In it are set whatever gods there are, as the branches of aWhat moves, flies and stands, breathing,not-breathing and winking ;thatuniversal form sustains the earth,that combined becomes One only."A.V. x. 8. ii.Prajapati goes about within the womb ;Unseen, yet is manifestly born." *A.V. x. 8. 13.1Compare R.V. i. 89. 10 ;V.S. xxv. 23 ;T.A. i. 13. 2 ;and M.S. iv. 14. 4. For a similar sentiment in reference toViraj, see A.V. ix. 10. 24.2For a discussion on Yaksa(cf. also A.V. x. 8. 15)see Geldner, Vedische Studien, iii. 126 ff. ;also Kena Up.,iii.14-25 ; Deussen, Sechzig Upanisads, p. 204, Einleitung.3This is from the well-known A.V. hymn on the Skambha or the Frame of Creation.For translation see Muir sSanskrit Texts, vol. v., pp. 380384 ; Ludwig, p. 400 ;Deussen, Geschichte, i. 1. 310 ; Griffith, ii. 26 ;and Whitney s A.V. vol. ii. p. 589. The translation is taken fromWhitney.4For translation of A.V. x. 8. see Muir, v., p. 386 ;