Education in Ancient India c14.s2.60

c14.s2.60

So also about the significance of the Vyāhṛti letters, Kūrmapurāṇa, uttarārdha, 14, 58 and Ādi-Purāṇa, Ādi, 58. 54-5 maintain that they denote Pradhāna, Puruṣa and Kāla; or Viṣṇu, Brahmā and Maheśa; or Satva, Rajas and Tamas respectively. Cf. प्रधानं पुरुषः कालो विष्णुर्ब्रह्मा महेश्वरः । सत्वं रजस्तमस्त्वः क्रमाद् व्याहृतयः स्मृताः । sufficient if it has no capacity to receive proper stimulation. The prayer is offered to the sun because he was regarded as the one and universal source of stimulation for both the animate and the inanimate world.