History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c26.236

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¹¹²⁷ Vide Nirukta XII. 38 for another interpretation of the verse अर्वाग्बिलश्चमस &c. In the Nirukta ‘the seven sages’ are explained either as ‘seven rays of the Sun’ or as ‘the seven indriyas’. The Bṛ. Up. explains the ‘seven sages’ as the prāṇas (the two ears, eyes, the two holes of the nose and the tongue) and identifies them with the seven sages, Viśvāmitra and others. The Atharva-veda X. 8. 9 reads the verse as ‘तिर्यग्बिलश्चमस &c.’.