Studies in Indian Art c7.s3.9

c7.s3.9

Viśvakarmā is spoken of as lofty in mind (vimanā). He is the Father of the Eye (chakshushah pitā). This Eye is the same as mind or spirit, the wisdom of the Creator. It is this Eye which is sometimes identified with the Sun, because the latter is Viśvarūpa, the maker of all forms or lightimages. In the primeval eye of Viśvakarmā there was a reflection on 'the first day of creation' (agre) of the world image. It was that reflection (ābhāsa) which has become mirrored in the shining stuff of this world. The world subsists in its formless simplicity in the Creator. It is undifferentiated in the beginning; subsequently Indra (mind) creates different light-images (rūpam rūpam maghavā bo-bhavīti).