 | E.J. RAPSON - 1922 - 842 pages
...5; Arrian, Indica, i, 3 (trans. M'Crindle, p. 179). a Vincent Smith, Early History of India3, p. 16. solstice. The horse-sacrifice is at bottom the elaboration...one, called variously brahman, 'the holy power,' or nt num. 'the self Moreover, the Upanishads agree in regarding the absolute to be unknowable, and though... | |
 | Edward James Rapson - India - 1922 - 848 pages
...fire of the altar, and both Prajapati and Agni are the divine counterparts of the human sacrifices But Prajapati is himself Time, and Time is in the...one, called variously brahman, 'the holy power,' or dtman, 'the self.' Moreover, the Upanishads agree in regarding the absolute to be unknowable, and though... | |
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Time is in the long run death, so that the sacrificer himself becomes death, and by that act rises superior to death, and is for ever removed from the world of illusion and trouble to the world of everlasting bliss. In this the true nature of Prajapati... 