Sudhanwan : the ancestor of the Ribhūs when considered powers of Light who have descended into Matter. In Brihadāranyaka he is a descendant of Angiras. [S/a D. Swami]
... divinities. Take your delight in it, O ye Ribhus. (2) I give you the enjoyment of that for whose desire you come to me;O you near tome and high beyond, whatever powers, but my friends! O children of Sudhanwan, by the largeness of your movement of action you came to the house of Savitri when he was giving out the wine of his creation. (3) Savitri the Creator poured out for you immortality and then you... (4) By entering in, by fulfilling of action, by the traversing of obstacles, by the speaking of the word, they who were mortal, have laid hands of enjoyment on immortality; Ribhus, children of Sudhanwan, saw with the sun for eye and were joined wholly to his thoughts in the year of Time. (5) The Ribhus have measured out like a field and have shaped as if with a sharp-cutting instrument the one... your cherished Day the armies of the powers who give not the nectar wine. (8) The Ribhus pressed into shape the Cow of Light out of her skin and joined the Mother with the child. O children of Sudhanwan, in your desire of perfect works you made our aged Father and Mother young again. (9) Increase us by the Vajas, lords of the plenty, in the winning of plenty; O Indra with the Ribhus, tear for ...
... foot on the greatness of hostile power." 48 Example of Ribhus, the Artisans of Immortality We have rightly been described as artisans of immortality. They are called children of Sudhanwan, where the word dhanwan means desert field of Matter, and it has connection with an image of hill or rock out of which waters or rays representing the energies of supermind are delivered. Sometimes ...
... . The Ribhus are powers of the Light who have descended into Matter and are there born as human faculties aspiring to become divine and immortal. In this character they are called children of Sudhanwan, 1 a patronymic which is merely a parable of their birth from the full capacities of Matter touched by the luminous energy. But in their real nature they are descended from this luminous Energy ...
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