History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c95.346

v7.c95.346

²⁵⁹¹ द्वे ते चक्रे सूर्ये ब्रह्माण ऋतथा विदुः। अथैकं चक्रं यद्गुहा तद्धातय इद्विदुः॥ ऋ X. 85.16. This literally means 'O Sūryā (daughter of the Sun) ! two are thy wheels which the brāhmaṇas (or priests) know as coming at proper seasons; one of the wheels is inside a cave and is known only to *addhātus* (wise men?)' Acc. to Sāyaṇa here Sūryā addresses herself. The two wheels are the Sun and the Moon and the wheel in the 2nd half is a third one viz. the year The Nighaṇṭu includes 'addhātayaḥ' among the twenty-four words meaning 'medhāvina' (III 15). That word occurs only here in the whole of the Ṛgveda. The work explains 'Sūryā' as 'ātmaśakti' and takes 'cakra' as meaning 'body', two bodies would be 'the present and the future body' and it holds that addhātayaḥ means 'yogins' and 'guhā' (in the cave) suggests that one body cannot be seen but is only known to yogins That one body is the ātivāhika body according to this writer,