Vedic Mythology c5.s2.t7.2

c5.s2.t7.2

Agni is often described as dwelling in the waters (p 92). He is said to have entered into them (7, 49⁴). As mothers they produce Agni (10, 91⁶, cp. 2⁷; AV. 1, 33¹), one of whose forms is called ‘Son of Waters’ (§ 24). The waters are mothers (10, 17¹⁰; 1, 23¹⁶), who are the wives of the world, equal in age and origin (10, 30¹⁰). They are besought to give their auspicious fluid like loving mothers (10, 9²). They are most motherly, the producers of all that is fixed and moves (6, 50⁷).