The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c9.s10.9

c9.s10.9

But in order to get at this equation the Vedic text does not want us to undertake any esoteric or mystical exercise. There is nothing transcendental about it. No external authority, no divine power, raises the king to the level of or makes him identical with, Prajāpati. It is by certain feats of his own,—the seventeen shootings,—that he wins or becomes Prajāpati.