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visage of immortality.” Prof. Max Müller, in his Lectures on the
Science of Language, further remarks* that “the dawn, which to us is
a merely beautiful sight, was to the early gazers and thinkers the
problem of all the problems. It was the unknown land from whence
rose every day those bright emblems of divine powers, which, left in
the mind of man the first impression and intimation of another world,
of power above, of order and wisdom. What we simply call the sunrise,
brought before their eyes every day the riddle of all riddles, the
riddle of existence. The days of their life sprang from that dark abyss,
which every morning seemed instinct with light and life.” And again “a
new life flashed up every morning before their eyes and the fresh
breezes of the dawn reached them like greetings wafted across the
golden threshold of the sky from the distant lands beyond the
mountains, beyond the clouds, beyond the dawn, beyond the
immortal sea which brought us hither.” The dawn seemed to them to
open golden gates for the sun to pass in triumph and while those
gates were open their eyes and their minds strove in their childish
way to pierce beyond the finite world. That silent aspect awakened in
the human mind the conception of the Infinite, the Immortal, the
Divine, and the names of dawn became naturally the names of higher
powers. “This is manifestly more poetic than real. But the learned
Professor explains many Vedic myths on the theory that they are all
Dawn-stories in different garbs. Thus if Saranyu, who had twins from
Vivasvat, ran off from him in the form of a mare, and he followed her
in the form of a horse, it is nothing but a story of the Dawn
disappearing at the approach of the sun and producing the pair of day
and night. The legend of Suryâ’s marriage with Soma, and of
Vṛishâkapâyî, whose oxen (the morning vapors) were swallowed by
Indra, or of Aditi giving birth to the Âdityas are again said to be the
stories of the Dawn under different aspects. Saramâ, crossing the
waters to find out the cows stolen by Panis, is similarly the Dawn
* See Lectures on the Science of Language, Vol. II, p. 545, ƒƒ.