[INDOLOGY] The Sun as the "21st"

[Joanna Jurewicz]

In the Ṛgveda this number is often activated via the phrase 'tríḥ saptá'.
See Thieme P. 1985. ‘The First Verse of the *Tri**ṣ**aptīyam* (AV, Ś 1.1 ~
AV, P 1.6) and the Beginnings of Sanskrit Linguistics’. *Journal of the
American Oriental Society* 105, 3: 559-565.
Best,
Joanna



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dr hab. Joanna Jurewicz, prof. UW
Katedra Azji Południowej /Chair of South Asia
Wydział Orientalistyczny / Faculty of Oriental Studies
Uniwersytet Warszawski /University of Warsaw
ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28
00-927 Warszawa
https://uw.academia.edu/JoannaJurewicz

2016-03-18 12:07 GMT+01:00 Dipak Bhattacharya <dipak.d2004 at gmail.com>:

> 21 is a holy number pertaining, originally, to the twenty-one declensional
> forms of word --the three-into-seven declensional forms. The matter is not
> undiscussed.
> Best
> DB
>
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 2:58 PM, James Hartzell <james.hartzell at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear Colleagues
>>
>> I’ve come across two references in the Brāhmaṇas to the Sun as ‘the
>> twenty-first’ –
>>
>> ŚB 6.7.1.1: …” It (the plate) is round, for he (the Sun) is round. It
>> has twenty-one knobs, for he is the twenty-first. He wears it with the
>> knobs outside, for the knobs are his (the Sun's) rays, and his rays are
>> outside." (Eggeling 1894:265),”
>> and
>> AB 4.18: "They perform the ceremonies of the Ekaviṃśa day, which is the
>> equator, dividing the year (into two equal parts). By means of the
>> performance of this day, the gods had raised the Sun up to the heavens.
>> This Ekaviṃśa day on which the Divākīrtya mantra (was produced) is preceded
>> by ten days, and followed by ten days, and is in the midst (of both
>> periods). On both sides it is thus put in a Virāṭ: (the number ten). Being
>> thus put in a Virāṭ (in the number ten) on both sides, this (Ekaviṃśa, i.e.
>> the Sun) becomes not disturbed in his course through these worlds." (Haug
>> 1977:288-289).
>>
>> Does anyone have other references to the Sun as the 21st, and any other
>> explanations for this other than these two Brahmana explanations?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> James Hartzell, PhD(2x)
>> Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC)
>> The University of Trento, Italy
>>
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