PRASNOPANISEAD-BHASHYA [1.11 there are those others indeed who declare that (the world)' is fitted (to the chariot) with seven wheels and six spokes firmly. COMMENTARY: pancadādam : This means one who has five feet of the form of vatsara, samvatsata parivatsara, idāvatsara and anuvatsara. Or else, the six seasons (beginning with Vasanta) become five when the last two Hemanta and Sisira are taken as one Pañcapada means one who has these five as his feet. pitaram: father, the creator of all dvādaśākotim: Having twelve mouths as his forins, divah pare: beyond heaven ardhe : in the place purisinam: by the word 'purişa' is indicated the cover of the globe of the universe, which is adjacent to the golden world (svarnabhumi). He who has this abode is Purişin. This word goes with āhuḥ: they say, atha: this word indicates consideration of another view.
- It is a determinative particle (meaning eva'
- alone).
para : indicates superiority re., superior to those men- tioned above (in the first half of the verse) 1. S. also holds the same view. But Griffith says that 'God' is so fitted or mounted. This sloka is found in RV.1. 164. 12A; AV. IX. 9 12. RV. I, 184. 12 (Griffith "They call him in the farther half of Heaven the Sire five-footed, of twelve forms, wealthy in watery store. These others say that he, God with far seeing eyes, is mounted on the lower seven wheeled six spoked oar" AV. IX. 9. 12. (Whitney! The five footed father, of twelve skapes (ſākotil, they call him rich iu Ground (purisinn the far para half of the sky; lhep these others call (him) Bet (arpita) in the lower outlook that served wheeled, six spokes 2 Cl. Kafhaka Brahmana: Taitti. Brahmana III, 10.4. 8. Cf. cf. III, 9. I. 4. The reading here may be 'sannidham' instead of 'samnihitan' which would give the meaning: of the coloar of gold, cf the 16
