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Â), is the son of the cow aurora; as the sun's mother she naturally nourishes him with her milk; hence the same…

Date of account: English edition published 1872
Source: Zoological Mythology; or, The Legends of Animals, Volume 1 (of 2)
Reference: Zoological Mythology; or, The Legends of Animals, Volume 1 (of 2) · selected passage 19
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-25

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â), is the son of the cow aurora; as the sun's mother she naturally nourishes him with her milk; hence the same Âitareya[163] tells us that the gods Mitras and Varunas, by means of the curdled milk, took from the drink of the gods the inebriating poison which the long-tongued witch (Dîrghagihvî) had poured into it

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â_), is the son of the cow aurora; as the sun's mother she naturally nourishes him with her milk; hence the same _Âitareya_[163] tells us that the gods Mitras and Varunas, by means of the curdled milk, took from the drink of the gods the inebriating poison which the long-tongued witch (_Dîrghagihvî_) had poured into it. This curdled milk is the same milky sea, with health-giving herbs scattered in it, and which the gods agitate to form ambrosia, in the _Râmâyanam_, the _Mahâbhâratam_, and the Puranic legends; a sea and herbs which we find already spoken of together in a Vedic hymn.[164] But in the sky, where the ambrosial milk and the health-giving herbs are produced, there are gods and demons; and the milk, which is at one time the rain, at another ambrosia, is now in the cloud, now in the moon (called also _Oshadhipatis_, or lord of herbs), now round the dawn.

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