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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: clothed in bright red colour, but gradually changed into the representative of the morning. We see at once, if examining these various expressions, how some of them, like the child of Dyu, are easily carried away into mythology, while others, such as the son of strength, or the light of the sacrifice, resist that unconscious metamorphosis, That Arusha was infected by mythology, that it had approached at least that point where nomina become changed into numina, we see by the verse immediately following: vi. 49, 3. arushasya duhitara virupe (iti vi-rupc) stri-bhiA anya jiipise suraA anya. There are two different daughters of Arusha; the one is clad in stars, the other belongs to the sun, or is the wife of Svar. Here Arusha is clearly a mythological being, like Agni or Savitar or Vaivanara; and if Day and Night are called his daughters, he, too, can hardly have been conceived otherwise than as endowed with human attributes, as the child of Dyu, as the father of Day and Night, and not as a mere period of time, not as a mere cause or effect. iv. 15, 6. t'tin arvantam na sanasim arusham mi divaA mum marmriyyante dive-dive. They trim the fire day by day, like a strong horse, like Arusha, the child of Dyu. Here, too, Arusha, the child of Dyu, has to be taken as a personal character, and, if the na after arusham is right, a distinction is clearly made between Agni, the sacrificial fire, to whom the hymn is addressed, and Arush.o, the child of heaven, the pure and bright morning, here used as a simile for the cleaning or trimming of the fire on the altar. v. 47, 3. arushSA su-parndA. Arusha, the morning sun, with beautiful wings. The feminine .fnishi at an Adjective. A'rushi, like arusha, is used as an adjective, in the same sense as arusha, i. e. red: i...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458966766 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458966763 |
| Weight | 0.88 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.61 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 268 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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