[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879) › c5.733 # A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature c5.733 A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature c5.733 - **Language:** English ### [c5.733](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.733) JĀTA-VEDAS. A Vedic epithet for fire. “The meaning is explained in five ways:—(1.) Knowing all created beings; (2.) Possessing all creatures or everything existent; (3.) Known by created beings; (4.) Possessing vedas, riches; (5.) Possessing vedas, wisdom. Other derivations and explanations are found in the Brāhmanas, but the exact sense of the word seems to have been very early lost, and of the five explanations given, only the first two would seem to be admissible for the Vedic texts. In one passage a form, Jāta-veda, seems to occur.”—Williams. This form of the term, and the statement of Manu that the Vedas were milked out from fire, air, and the sun, may perhaps justify the explanation, ‘producer of the Vedas.’ - [Previous: c5.732](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.732) - [Next: c5.734](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.734) - [Up: c5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.733](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.733) · Pramāṇa