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A History of Sanskrit Literature c7.113

A History of Sanskrit Literature c7.113

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c7.113

The fourth line here is the refrain of nine successive stanzas, in which the creator is referred to as unknown, with the interrogative pronoun *ka*, "what?" This *ka* in the later Vedic literature came to be employed not only as an epithet of the creator Prajāpati, but even as an independent name of the supreme god.