The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads v1.c14.62

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³ RV. x. 10. With this idea may be compared the suggestion of Hertel (VOJ. xxv. 135 ff.) that in Purūravas, son of Iḍa or Iḍā, we have the relic of tracing the origin of man to a bi-sexual being, a view which he supports by the use of passages where in the Brāhmaṇas Prajāpati appears as of bi-sexual nature—later Çiva is of course sometimes androgynous. But the evidence is wholly unable to bear out this hypothesis; see Keith, *JRAS.* 1913, pp. 412–17; below, Appendix B.