Elements of Buddhist Iconography c6.51

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³⁴ (page 19). Vasiṣṭha, primarily an aspect of Agni (as was recognized by Siecke, *Liebesgeschichte des Himmels*, 1892, p. 73), is also rightly identified with Prajāpati and Dakṣa, *Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa*, II, 4, 4, 2, and called a Prajāpati, *Mānava Dharmaśāstra*, I, 34. Prajāpati is Brahmā, *padma-ja*; cf. *Bhāgavata Purāṇa*, III, 20, 15–16, “From the navel of the lord sprang up a lotus, resplendent as a thousand suns, the