Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power in the Indian Theory of Government c2.s1.117

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²⁹ As implied by the Anukramaṇī to AV. VII. 21, *mantroktātmadevatyam*, the Sun is here the Universal Spirit (*ātmā́ jágatas tasthúṣaś ca*) of RV. I. 115. 1, the Herdsman of RV. VII. 60. 2 (*sū́ryo . . . víśvasya sthātúr jágataś ca gopā́*, cf. note 34), the Universal Lord and Husband (*īśānam jágatas tasthúṣas pátim*, Sāyaṇa *svāminam*) of RV. I. 89. 5, the “multiple one” (*víśvam ékam*) who “plays the man” (*patyate*, Sāyaṇa *abhigacchati*, cf. Mitra, brahma, as *abhigantṛ* in ŚB. IV. 1. 4. 1) to all that is in motion or at rest (*éjad dhruvám*, RV. III. 54. 8), and Parjanya of RV. VII. 101. 6: in other words, the divine Eros, Gandharva, Brahma to whom the whole creation is feminine, for “All of us are the wives of one Lord, it is for Him that we shall adorn ourselves” (*haṁ sab nārī eka bhatāra, sab koi taṅ karai siṅgāra*, Kabīr); just as considered individually the body is “the sensitive image, daughter and bride” of the soul (V. da S. Pinto, *Peter Sterry, Puritan and Platonist*, pp. 166-167).