--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "card" <cardemaister@...> wrote: > > > --- 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 ||
pada-paaTha, attemp at: dvaa suparNaa sayujaa sakhaayaa samaanam; vRkSam; pari Sasvajaate |tayoH; anyaH pippalam; svaadu; atti (eats, *not* 'ate'); anashnan; anyaH; 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. >
