Guest guest Posted August 10, 2003 Report Share Posted August 10, 2003 We can not understand Vedas through interpretations only. I think we need to read Vedas as original text again and try to understand their poetic values as the interpretation of a poetry can be different from the implied meaning. We are really missing some thing.Vishnu could be leader of some tribe of that time like Indra. later in puranas he was reinterpreted as Devata with so many stories. But when we try to see its poetic value, it could be time, it could be sun. any how time and sun are also interrelated. R.S. - amshuman_k INDOLOGY Friday, August 08, 2003 9:57 PM [Y-Indology] Vishnu Trivikrama Rg Veda speaks of Vishnu as the one who took three steps and I've come across quite a few interpretations of this aspect. All of them agree that this represents the Sun's movement. The actual trajectory seems to be elusive -- Some say it is the diurnal movement of the sun, some annual and some others map it to three regions. Assuming the Rg Vedic people could differentiate between a recurring phenomenon (such as sun's movement) to some event that happened only once, shouldn't the hymn mention Vishnu's three steps in present continuous as opposed to past tense? Since this is not the case, could Vishnu's three steps mean something else apart from sun's movement? Or am I missing something? Regards, KK Sponsor indology Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 10, 2003 Report Share Posted August 10, 2003 PR SAXENA <prsaxena wrote: We can not understand Vedas through interpretations only. I think we need to read Vedas as original text again and try to understand their poetic values as the interpretation of a poetry can be different from the implied meaning. We are really missing some thing.Vishnu could be leader of some tribe of that time like Indra. later in puranas he was reinterpreted as Devata with so many stories. But when we try to see its poetic value, it could be time, it could be sun. any how time and sun are also interrelated. R.S. - amshuman_k INDOLOGY Friday, August 08, 2003 9:57 PM [Y-Indology] Vishnu Trivikrama Rg Veda speaks of Vishnu as the one who took three steps and I've come across quite a few interpretations of this aspect. All of them agree that this represents the Sun's movement. The actual trajectory seems to be elusive -- Some say it is the diurnal movement of the sun, some annual and some others map it to three regions. Assuming the Rg Vedic people could differentiate between a recurring phenomenon (such as sun's movement) to some event that happened only once, shouldn't the hymn mention Vishnu's three steps in present continuous as opposed to past tense? Since this is not the case, could Vishnu's three steps mean something else apart from sun's movement? Or am I missing something? Regards, KK Sponsor indology indology dear mr saxena, you are very correct on your approach to study and concentration of the original vedic rituals and not to solely depend on their translation.vishnu could be a person from well known aadityaa dynasty,that is one of the sons of adityee,the intial creator of universal creatures mainly deva's of the devine ones.her opposion was dityee,she was also initial creater ,but for devils and reptiles etc..,Vishnu also was an active member who partitipated in the famous incident of "sagar mantha",where the r14 precetion things or 14 ratna's were produced. He was one among the trinity of:lord brahma,lord vishnu,and lord shiva"who actively supported the devas or sura's ruled by king indra to defeat their enemy demons or the asura community.the efect of this was that the whole community of asura's was against him and they lator on worshipped lord brahma and lord shiva only,neglected vishnu worship. But as mr anshuman said,the ancient sages also tried to define the name of vishnu and his deeds with the natural phenomenon og salor activities and compared the three steps of vishnu with that of three positions of sun at morning afternoon and evenings.this aproach was towords the right directions as it tried to save the devine charactor of vishnu,which other wise was a critisisable since very long.Yet there are many mantras in RgVeda,YajurVeda,AtharvaVeda,Brahmanic litetratures and puranas,which are yet to be studied to get the correct meaning etc spsharma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 10, 2003 Report Share Posted August 10, 2003 - "PR SAXENA" <prsaxena <INDOLOGY> Saturday, August 09, 2003 11:38 PM Re: [Y-Indology] Vishnu Trivikrama > We can not understand Vedas through interpretations only. I agree. I have always felt, for example, that 'intergalactic spacecraft' for 'ratha' is, as Prof. Priestley is wont to put it, more of an interpretation than a translation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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