Elements of Buddhist Iconography c6.197

c6.197

142 *(page 58)*. "Fontal and inflowing": *samānam udakam ut ca eti ava ca ababhiḥ, Ṛg Veda*, I, 164, 51; *viṣvañc, sadhryañc, ibid.*, X, 177, 3; *yad vai vāyuḥ parān eva paveta kṣīyeta . . . reṣmāṇaṃ janamāno niveṣṭamāno vāti, kṣayād eva bibhyat . . . yad u ha vā āpaḥ parācīr eva praṣṛtās syanderan kṣīyeraṃs tāḥ, yad aṅkāṃsi kurvāṇā niveṣṭamānā āvartān sṛjamānā yanti kṣayād eva bibhyatiḥ, Jaiminīya Upaniṣad Brāhmaṇa*, I, 2; that is, "If the Spirit should blow only straight away, it would die away; (but) it blows from all quarters together, winding itself in so as to generate a whirlwind, that it may not die away. And if the Waters should flow streaming only straight away, they would come to an end; but in that they proceed making bends, winding themselves in, and making eddies, that is to avoid a coming to an end." (With the notion *āvarta*, "eddy," here, compare that of "auspicious curls," *nandyāvarta*, and the general value of spirals and "strapwork" in symbolism.)