--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "card" <cardemaister@...> wrote: > > > Wiki: > > Asya Vaamasya Hymn ["Rco akSare" -- card] > > Dirghatamas is famous for his paradoxical apothegms.[1] His mantras are enigmas: "He who knows the father below by what is above, and he who knows the father who is above by what is below is called the poet." > The Asya Vamasya (RgVeda 1.164) is one of the sages most famous poems. Early scholars (such as Deussen in his Philosophy of the Upanisads) tried to say that the poems of Dirghatamas were of a later nature because of their content, but this has no linguistic support which has been argued by modern Sanskrit scholars (such as Dr. C. Kunhan Raja in his translation of the Asya Vamasya Hymn). The reason earlier western scholars believed it was of a later origin is because of the monist views found there. They believed that early Vedic religion was pantheistic and a monist view of god evolved later in the Upanisads- but the poems of Dirghtamas (1.164.46) which say "there is One Being (Ekam Sat) which is called by many names*" proves this idea incorrect. > > * ekam sad [sic!] vipraa bahudhaa vadanti -- card >
1.164.20 dvaa suparNaa sayujaa sakhaayaa samaanaM vRkSaM pari Sasvajaate |tayoranyaH pippalaM svaadvattyanashnannanyo abhi chaakashIti || 20 Two Birds with fair wings, knit with bonds of friendship, in the same sheltering tree have found a refuge.One of the twain eats the sweet Fig-tree's fruitage; the other eating not regardeth only.
