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“ That lovely glory of Savitar, The heavenly god, we contemplate : Our pious thoughts he shall promote.” ’

lien: is almost the first touch of that inimita~ bio Combination of the Upanishads, the Atman, “breath,” and the Brahma, “holy thought,” that is the combination of physical and spiritual force into one pantheistio all. As a modern Hindu says of the Silvitrl‘ : i “ It is of course impossible to say what the author of the Savitrf had in View, but his Indian commentators, both ancient and modern, are as one in believing that he rose from nature up to nature’s God, and adored that sublime luminary which is visible only to the eye of reason, and not

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the planet We daily see in its course.’ Katyayana in his Index: to the Itingeda, the so-called Anu- kraman’f, after stating the familiar classification of all the gods of the Veda into three types—"Agni (fire and light on earth), Vayu (air or wind in the atmo- sphere), and Sarya (sun in the sky)~—-proceeds still farther to assert that there is only one deity, namely, the “ Great Self,” (ma/mndz‘ma‘), and “ some say that he is the sun (sarya) or that the sun is he.” This is, of course, later thought, Upan—

‘Ringeda 3.. 62. to. 5* Rajendral‘alamitra in the Introduction to his Edition of the Goya.-

t/iw Brdfimama pl 24.