Identifier: indianmythlegend00inmack Title: Indian myth and legend Year: 1913 (1910s) Authors: Mackenzie, Donald Alexander, 1873-1936 Subjects: Hindu mythology Publisher: London, Gresham Contributing Library: Indiana University Digitizing Sponsor: Indiana University

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Text Appearing Before Image: earth, nor air.Being non-existent it resolved, * Let me be. It becamefervent. From that fervour smoke was produced. Itagain became fervent. From that fervour fire was pro-duced. Afterwards the fire became rays and therays condensed like a cloud, producing the sea. Amagical formula (Dasahotri) was next created. Pra-japati is the Dasahotri. Eminently Brahmanic in character Is the commentinserted here: That man succeeds who, thus knowingthe power of austere abstraction (or fervour), practises It. When Prajapati arose from the primordial waters he wept, exclaiming, * For what purpose have I been born If(I have been born) from this which forms no support ?. . . That (the tears) which fell Into the water becamethe earth. That which he wiped away became the air.That which he wiped away, upwards, became the sky.From the circumstance that he wept {arodit\ these tworegions have the name of rodasi (worlds) . . . 1 Dr. E, RBers translation (Calcutta). Deussens Philosophy of the UpanishadSf p. 39.

Text Appearing After Image: bo nex, z X C/5 o Di oz O o ^ 3 C ►t [*, O z oz oi cu X < « o XH cqW MYSTERIES OF CREATION loi Prajapati afterwards created Asuras and cast off hisbody, which became darkness; he created men and castoff his body, which became moonlight; he created seasonsand cast off his body, which became twilight; he createdgods and cast off his body, which became day. TheAsuras received milk in an earthen dish, men in a woodendish, the seasons in a silver dish, and the gods were givenSoma in a golden dish. In the end Prajapati createdDeath, a devourer of creatures . Mind (or soul, manas) was created from the non-existent, adds a priestly commentator. Mind createdPrajapati. Prajapati created offspring. All this, whateverexists, rests absolutely on mind.^ In another mythical account of Creation, Prajapatiemerges, like the Egyptian Horus, from a lotus bloomfloating on the primordial waters. The most elaborate story of Creation is found in thehaws ofManu^ the eponymous ancestor of mankind andthe

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