The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads v1.c14.36

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³ In RV. x. 72 we may have the idea of creation by a primitive Yogin, Uttānapad; Oldenberg, *Rel. des Veda*², p. 279; Hauer, *Die Anfänge der Yogapraxis im alten Indien*, pp. 28 ff. Possibly old is the idea of the throwing up of the earth by a primeval boar; ÇB. xiv. 1. 2. 11, and a cosmic tortoise is conceived as finding the earth in the ocean, JB. iii. 272 (Akūpāra Kaçyapa; cf. PB. xv. 5. 30; ÇB. vii. 5. 1. 5).