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Says Sayana: —
"God Himself appears as Brahma among the gods, Indra,
Agni
&c. He appears as a poet among the dramatists and writers of lyrics;
He appears as Vashishtha, &c. among the Brahmanas; He appears as
a buffalo among quadrupeds; He appears as an eagle among birds,
He appears as an axe in the forest; He appears as the
soma juice
purified
by
mantras
excelling in its power of purification, the sacred waters of
the Ganges, &c., &c."
The translation bears the stamp of the time when it was
produced. It is the effort of a Pandit to establish his name by appealing
to popular prejudice and feeling. Evidently, when Sayana wrote, the
religion of India was "pantheism" or everything is God; evidently,
superstition had so far increased that the waters of the Ganges were
regarded as sacred; incarnations were believed in; the worship of
Brahma, Vasishtha and other
rishis
was at its acme, It was probably
the age of the dramatists and poets. Sayana was himself a resident of
some city or town. He was not a villager. He was familiar with the
axe as an instrument of the destruction of forests, &c., but not with the
lightning or fire as a similar but more powerful agent. His translation
does not mirror the sense of the Vedas but that of his own age. His
interpretation of
Brahma, kavi, deva, rishi, vipra, mahisha, mriga, shyena,
gridhra, vana, soma, pavitra
—
of all these words, without one exception,
is purely
rurhi
or
laukika.
Now follows the exposition of Yaska in his Nirukta xiv.13.
There is not a single word that is not taken in its
yaugika
sense.
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We will now speak of the spiritual sense of the
man tra
as
Yaska gives it. It is his object to explain that the human spirit is the
central conscious being that enjoys all experience. The external
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