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mare. On realizing Ms mistake the Sun followed her assuming the form of a
horse and uniting with her produced the Ashwins, the two celestial doctors.
Upon resuming their ordinary forms they had three children; Manu the
progenitor of men, the Death god Yama, and the goddess Yami or the
Yamuna river. The Sun also had several illegitimate children, of which the
important ones were Sugriva, Kama and Savarni.
Manu was the father of Ikshwaku who began the solar dynasty of kings, to
which the avatar Rama belonged, and in which Buddha was a prince. An
important characteristic of the solar dynasty is adherence to the highest order
of ethics, truthfulness, and the keeping of their promises regardless of the
cost.
The lineage of the Sun shows his association with feminine counterparts or
creative energies to further cosmic development. The Sun has to reduce his
primeval effulgence to function at lower levels of creation. The Sun is
closely linked with the ruling class, and wherever invincible power is
displayed there dwells the radiance of the Sun. All creative beginnings, like
the breaking of the dawn, are energized by the Sun. Similarly, the cessation
of the working of life-energy takes place with the withdrawal of solar
radiance: Yama, the God of death, is a son of the Sun. The end was created
by the Sun himself. The river Yamuna is a companion of Vishnu, the
preservative principle of the universe. In this way the lineage of the Sun
shows thai he is the life-giver, the preserver and the death inflictor.
Wherever there is any glory, any victory, any success, there shines his
effulgence. All positive creative energies come from the Sun who is always
ready to fructify or stimulate all creative desires in human
beings.
The third approach to understanding solar symbology is through the various
pictorial representations of the Solar Deity. The Sun or Surya is pictured in a
chariot having only one wheel but yoked to seven horses which include a
mare. Often the horse is described as being only one but with seven heads.
These seven horses are named after the seven colors: orange (Rochika),
violet (Mochika), white (Shukl), yellow (Pita), red (Rakta), green (Nila), and
blue (Indramla). They also represent the seven Vedic meters — Gayatri,
Ushnik, Anushtup, Brihati, Pankti, Trlshtup, and Jagati. The wheel is the
visible form of the year. It has five spokes showing an apex of five points
joined at the center which form a nave. There are three naves representing
the triple nature of man bounded by one belly or the body. The triple nature
is physical, psychic and spiritual, but it also indicates the three primary
attributes of Nature as Rajas (activity), Tamas (inertia), and Sattwa
(harmony). The wheel is eight-fold representing the eight Vasus or Gods of