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[edit] Cats?

Can anyone enlighten me as to the meaning of the word "cats" used by Griffith in verse 4?

"Thence he strode out to every side over what cats not and what cats."

I searched hi & lo on the Internet, but could not find any suitable explanation. Here are some other verses with the same enigma:

1:65:4 "to his sister floods, he cats the woods as a King eats"
1:143:5 "sharpened jaws chews up and cats the trees, and conquers"
2:35:7 "swells the Gods' nectar and cats noble viands"
6:4:5 "Even he who cats his firm hard food"
6:14:1 "That mortal cats before the rest, and finds"
6:15:1 "from ancient days the Child cats everlasting food"
8:91:11 "That which the white-ant cats away"

Could it be that these were typos or derived from an archaic English font that should be "eats"? I don't have an original 1896 paper edition available to confirm my theory; maybe someone here does. If correct, then verse 4 might be referring to plants & animals (i.e., things that don't eat, & things that do eat).--Funhistory 18:19, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

  • Actually, I think I can answer my own question after reading verse 14. Parusha might've created the world, but Henry Ford created the car: "Forth from his navel came mid-air, the sky was fashioned from his head, Earth from his feet, and from his car the regions." I hope no one will mind my correcting Griffith's text in the article.--Funhistory 21:03, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Barbaric Cannibalism or Sacrifice of Man (purusha) in Rigveda

Lets extract some verses :

6 When Gods prepared the sacrifice with Purusa as their offering.
  Its oil was spring, the holy gift was autumn,summer was the wood.
7 They balmed as victim on the grass Purusa born in earliest time.
  With him the Deities and all Sadhyas and Rsis sacrificed.
8 From that great general sacrifice the dripping fat was gathered up.
11 When they divided Purusa how many portions did they make?
15 Seven fencing-sticks had he,thrice seven layers of fuel were prepared,
  When the Gods, offering sacrifice, bound, as their victim, Purusa.
16 Gods, sacrificing, sacrificed the victim these were the earliest holy ordinances.
  The Mighty Ones attained the height of heaven,
  there where the Sidhyas, Gods of old, are dwelling.

This tells about sacrifice of man on stakes by fire. see my text on Talk:Vedic religion.These verses describe that a man is being burnt in fire, its molten fat is gathered up & its meat is divided in portions. As per the earlier customs the meat of sacrifices was considered holy & was distributed as a sacrament(for eating). It proves that early hindus were barbaric cannibals who used to sacrifice humans to gods. Other(hidden) verses(about cosmic man) in this purusha-sukta are just hyperbolic imaginations to glorify the misdeed, because such creature does not exist.(Has anybody seen it?)Even if we imagine that it existed , then where would it stand? How big wooden stakes would be required ? From which trees such big stakes would come? How great amounts of seven layers of fuel would be arranged & where would it be spread about? If the purusha means God then why gods would kill him & why burn him on stakes? Hah who would kill his revered God? Is there any logic?

It was a tradition in olden times to write a skeletal idea(just like the above verses) then add some teaching & fantasy to create a dogma for mass consumption. --Anirudh777 09:25, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

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