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andharva held his bridle. The Vasus (i.e., the shining 
gods) fashioned the horse out of the sun. 2. 
You are Yama, you are Aditya, O horse, you are Trita by 
sacred rites. 
You are thoroughly speidikiod with Soma. They (=the 
— ater: of ee three heavenly bonds. 3. 
n vik 2 are mentioned four persons who were 
the amy mare of the Horse-sacrifice, namely, Yama, 
Trita, Indra and Gandharva. As pointed out in my paper on 
Vivasvan, the Gandharva mentioned in rik 2 is King Vivasvan. 
In rik 3 he has been named pic or the sun. The names 
chronologically arranged would be 
Gandharva Vivasvan, 
ama, 
Trita, and 
Indra. 
The idea of the horse being fashioned out of the sun had 
its origin in the poetical language of the Risis in which the sun 
has been compared with a horse and even called a horse. 
here is no mysticism in the third rik if we keep in mind 
the way the vedic Risis reasoned. Vivasvan, Yama and Trita 
performed the Horse-sacrifice— 
.. The Sana of the Horse-sacrifice was related to them— 
. the mantra was baat the horse became their 
seboletiae their very selve 
In Vivasvan, Yama and en the horse has three bonds in 
heaven. Why it has not been stated that the horse became 
Indra when the mantra was pronounced and why the latter has 
not been mentioned as one of the bonds of the horse in heaven, 
will be explained in my paper on Indra. 
ll. aqetafas faufa ser a faa are | 
Tal Haqg awe afar: | 51 R21 
18. qur wat faaefa ate warfus: ga | 
au fa ge ey Galea alae Gar | S/4R| VE 
If, O Indra, you_are gs the Soma, in the sacrifice of 
Visnu or in that of Aptya T 
rif you are enjoying the y paritiga drops in the sacrifice of 
the Ma rps a, 12-16. 
O Cakra, you ee the brewed Soma in the sacrifice 
of pot the son of Vi 
As, O Indr ra, you foved the hymn in Trita’s sacrifice, so 
may you exhilarate in the sacrifice of Ayw—VIII, 52-1. 
