The powers of the world directly respond to the calls and appeals of the individual ; for it is on the individual that the existence of divinity is based. [...] It is in the lyrical mood that the poet unconsciously reveals the everlasting the ultimate and the real. [...] The prevalence of music and dancing in the Rgveda and the musical rendering of this Satiihitä in the Sama Veda are ample proof of the fact that the Rgveda is lyrical and aesthetic. [...] Herethe main feture is not only the musical one but also the insistence on the prparation of the juice and on the jubilant and enthusiastic attitudes of the singers. [...] The beautiful song of Prajapati 10.130 pictures the sacrifice in the language of poetic metaphor ; the sacrifice is a web and the priests are the weavers.
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