The Philosophy of the Upanishads c12.s3.t2.5

c12.s3.t2.5

In India also, in other countries, men believed that they heard the voice of the moral law-giver (Prajâpati) in the roll of the thunder, whose *da! da! da!* is explained in the myth of Bṛih. 5. 2 as *dâmyata! datta! daya-dhvam!* (be self-restrained, liberal, pitiful).