13. Day and Night are Pragapati; its day is spirit, its night matter. Those who unite in love by day waste their spirit, but to unite in love by night is right.

14. Food is Pragapati. Hence proceeds seed, and from it these creatures are born.

15. Those therefore who observe this rule of Pragapati (as laid down in section 13), produce a pair, and to them belongs this Brahma-world here . But

those in whom dwell penance, abstinence, and truth,

16. To them belongs that pure Brahma-world, to them, namely, in whom there is nothing crooked, nothing false, and no guile.'

Footnotes

^271:1 Sukesas seems better than Sukesan, and he is so called in the sixth Prasna, in MS. Mill 74.

^271:2 Bharadvaga, Saivya, Gargya, Asvalayana, Bhargava, and Katyayana are, according to Sankara, names of gotras or families.

^271:3 Suryasyapatyam Sauryah, tadapatyam Sauryayanih. Dirghah sulopas ka khandasa iti sa eva Sauryayani.

^271:4 Kausalyo namatah, kosalayam bhavo va.

^271:5 Vaidarbhi is explained as vidarbheh prabhavah, or Vidarbheshu prabhavah. Vidarbha, a country, south of the Vindhya mountains, with Kundina as its capital. Vaidarbha, a king of the Vidarbhas, is mentioned in the Ait. Brahm. VII, 34. Vaidarbhi is a patronymic of Vidarbha. See B. R. s. v.

^271:6 After the year was over.

^272:1 Or he meditated; see Upanishads, vol. i, p. 238, n. 3.

^272:2 Sankara explains, or rather obscures, this by saying that the sun is breath, or the eater, or Agni, while matter is the food, namely, Soma.

^272:3 Cf. Maitr. Up. VI, 8.

^272:4 Harinam is explained as rasmimantam, or as harati sarvesham praninam ayumshi bhauman va rasan iti harinah. I prefer to take it in the sense of yellow, or golden.

^273:1 Rig-veda I, 164, 12. We ought to read upare vikakshanam.

^273:2 Saptakakre, i.e. rathe. The seven wheels are explained as the rays or horses of the sun; or as half-years, seasons, months, half-months, days, nights, and muhurtas.

^273:3 Taken as one, as a Nychthemeron.

^273:4 In the moon, reached by the path of the Fathers.