Vedic Mythology c5.s1.t3.7

c5.s1.t3.7

Sūrya shines for all the world (7, 63¹), for men and gods (1, 50⁵). He dispels the darkness with his light (10, 37⁴). He rolls up the darkness as a skin (7, 63¹). His rays throw off the darkness as a skin into the waters (4, 13⁴). He triumphs over beings of darkness and witches (1, 191⁸· ⁹ cp. 7, 104²⁴). There are only two or three allusions to the sun's burning heat (7, 34¹⁹; 9, 107²⁰); for in the RV. the sun is not a maleficent power⁴, and for this aspect of the luminary only passages from the AV. and the literature of the Brāhmaṇas can be quoted⁵.