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(I, 33, 10). The two evidently mean day and night and as soon as
they are milked, they give rise to the five seasons. The day and the
night are said to be the two mothers of Sûrya in III, 55, 6, and here
they are the mothers of the five seasons. What becomes after the
expiry of the seasons is, described in the eighth verse. It says that
with the ten of Vivasvat, or with the lapse of ten months, Indra with
his three-fold hammer shook down the heavenly jar. This means that
the three storing places of the aerial waters (VII, 101, 4) were all
emptied into the ocean at this time and along with it the sun also went
to the lower world, for sunlight is described to be three-fold in (VII,
101, 2 and Sâyana there quotes the Taittirîya Samhitâ (II, 1, 2, 5),
which says that the sun has three lights; the morning light being the
Vasanta, the midday the Grîshma, and the evening the Sharad. The
verse, therefore, obviously refers to the three-fold courses of waters
in the heaven and the three-fold light of the sun and all this is. said to
come to an end with the ten of Vivasvat The sun and the sacrifice are
then preserved as seed to be re-generated some time after, — a
process symbolized in the Pravargya ceremony. The idea of the sun
dropping from heaven is very common in the sacrificial literature.
Thus in the Aitareya Brâhmana (IV, 18) we read, “The gods, being
afraid of his (sun’s) falling beyond them being turned upside down,
supported him by placing above him the highest worlds”;* and the
same idea is met with in the Tândya Brâhmana (IV, 5, 9, 11). The
words “falling beyond” (parâchas atipâtât) are very important,
inasmuch as they show that the sun dropped into regions that were
en the yonder side. One of the Ashvin’s protégé is also called
Chyavâna, which word Prof. Max Müller derives from chyu to drop.
The Ashvins are said to have restored him to youth, which, being
divested of its legendary form, means the rehabilitation of the sun that
had dropped into the nether world. The Pravargya ceremony, which
preserves
* Ait. Brâh. VI, 18.