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THE THIRTY DAWNS 93
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TAITTIRIYA SAMHITA KANDA V, PRAPATHAKA 3,
ANUV AKA 4, SECTION 7.
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TRANSLATION AND NOTES
Taitt. Samhita IV, 3, II
I. This verily, is She that dawned first; (she) moves entered
into her ( i. e. above the horizon ). The bride, the new-come
mother, is born. The three great ones follow her.

1. She that ctarrn:d first : eddently meaning the first of a series of
thirty dawns, mentioned in the following verses. In verse r 3 we are
told that it is the dawn which commences the year. The thirty dawns
.are, thererore, the dawns at the beginning of the year, and the first of
them is mentioned in the first yerse. Sayav.a, howeyer, says-
an~~ ~l'lm l[: ~+rRI'fo]<!>~lf+I:_, meaning that the dawn at the
beginning of the creation is here in tended. But the explanation does not
suit the context, and SayaQa has himself given different explanations
afterwards.
En1e1'ed into her: accordmg- to Saya!).a asYam lin to her) means "into
.the earth;" compare ~ig. III, 6r, 7, where the sun, the speeder of the
dawns, is said to have 'entered into the mighty earth and heaven'.
According to A. V. reading the meaning would be "entered into the
.other (dawns)," shewing that the first dawn is a member of a larger
group.
The threegmzt 1111.!': ilrya, Vayu and Agni according to aya~a. The
three typical deities or Devatas me!ltJoned by Yasf:a (VII, s) are Agni,
Vayu or lndra, and Surya. In ~ig. VII, 33, 7, the three Gharma (fires)
are said to attend the da'' n,( lrayo Gh,zJmasruqh!ISam sa . .:llante ); and in VII,
7, 8, 3, the dawns are said to have created Surya, Yajiia (Sacrifice) and
Agni. Also compare A. V. IX, r, 8, and Bloomfield's note thereon in S.
B. E. Series, Vol. XLII, p. 590. Though the three may be Yariously
named, the reference is eyidently to the rise of the sun and the
commencement or sacrifices or the kindling of sacrificial fires after the
_first dawn (Cf.].tig. I. 113, g).