Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power in the Indian Theory of Government c2.s1.119

c2.s1.119

³⁰ The Two Worlds (*imau lokau, dyāvāpṛthivī, rodasī, kṣāmā*, etc.), celestial and terrestrial, essential and natural, were originally one, as is often explicit and still more often implied by their “separation.” This separation from one another, which is in order that there may be “room” for a procedure from potentiality to act (TS. V. 1. 5. 8, ŚB. I. 4. 1. 22-23) is variously brought about: but that the worlds are separated by the birth of the Sun, by Agni, Indrāgnī, Light or Lightning, the Axis Mundi (*skambha*) or the Bridge (*setu*), “by Varuṇa’s operation” or “at the fiat of the Imperishable” (*akṣara*), or at Dawn, are only different ways of saying the same thing.