... enjoyment a pure illumination; by the divine illuminations, as their motive force, essence & instrument, our actions & enjoyments are effected. We see the just, curious and delicate literary art of the Vedic style in its symbolism, by this selection of the great word, go, in this context, in preference to any other, to describe the flames of Agni. In the next line, with an equally just delicacy of selection... attained immortality. Page 709 In the next rik the idea is taken up, repeated & amplified to its final issues in that movement of solemn but never otiose repetition which is a feature of Vedic style. Janishta hi jenyo agre ahnám, Hito hiteshu arusho vaneshu, Dame dame sapta ratná dadháno, Agnir hotá ni shasádá yajíyán. This divine force is born victorious by its very purity & infinity ...
... therefore to that rite; thou, the Soma-drinker, take thy part of the nectar offered to thee.” Then the Rishi with that admirable logical connection and coherency which is the principal characteristic of Vedic style—though always in the logical form of poetry which half-veils the process of reasoning, and not of prose which parades it,—gives the idea which connects the second rik with the first, the offering... & appropriate not only to the present verse, but to the preceding rik and to the rik that follows. It provides us with the perfect logical connection & transition which is a perpetual feature of Vedic style. In the first verse the Rishi invites his “friends” or “life-companions” to sing the psalm of Indra; the second states the object & purpose of their singing which is to have this mighty&supremeMaster ...
... revealer of hidden truths, imagination no dancing courtesan but a priestess in God's house commissioned not to spin fictions but to image difficult and hidden truths; even the metaphor or simile in the Vedic style is used with a serious purpose and expected to convey a reality, not to suggest a pleasing artifice of thought. The image was to these seers a revelative symbol of the unrevealed and it was used ...
... in रक्ष्; but, also, like रभ्, it means swiftness, violence, vehemence & may mean passionate delight like रभस. The three closing words will then be connected & complementary in sense in the true Vedic style. 15) एभिर्भव सुमना अग्ने अर्कै- रिमान्स्पृश मन्मभिः शूर वाजान् । अत ब्रह्माणि अंगिरो जुषस्व सं ते शस्तिर्देववाता जरेत ॥ By these hymns of realisation become gracious to us, O Agni, & ...
... can even be asserted that the subject matter of Savitri has an affinity with the subject matter of the Veda. That is to say, not only in some parts does the manner of expression resemble the Vedic style; but the vision of Savitri is surcharged with a constant play of the light of inspiration and revelation from which the Vedic seers received their hymns. The Veda deals with the struggle between ...
... of hidden truths, imagination no dancing courtesan, but a priestess in God’s house commissioned not to spin fictions but to imagine difficult and hidden truths; even the metaphor or simile in the Vedic style is used with a serious purpose and expected to convey a reality, not to suggest a pleasing artifice or thought. The image was to these seers a revelative symbol of the unrevealed and it was used ...
... few words may be useful on each of these points. The first rule I follow is to try to get at the simplest and straightforward sense to which the Rik is open, not to strain, twist and involve. The Vedic style is terse, but natural, it has its strong brevities and some ellipses, but all the same it is essentially simple and goes straight to its object.Where it seems obscure, it is because we do not know ...
... and here quite unwarranted sense of इव. There is nothing to indicate a new subject for the verb or a change in its tense significance. The repetition of the verb is a quite common feature of the Vedic style and it sustains a continuity in the sense and subject; it does not indicate a break in it or turning to a new subject. इव simply indicates that the path, वृत्, पंथा so often referred to in the Veda ...
... can even be asserted that the subject matter of Sāvitrī has an affinity with the subject matter of the Veda. That is to say, not only in some parts does the manner of expression resemble the Vedic style but the vision of Sāvitrī is surcharged with a constant play of the light of inspiration and revelation from which the Vedic seers received their hymns. The Veda deals with the struggle between ...
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