Lexicon of Rig Veda

Lexicon

of Rig Veda

Milk full of lucidity, 1.22.14, is a drink of knowledge, 1.152.6. nourishing the Truth in all, it is full of potentialities – milk, wealth, full of semen, bright, abundant, of bright cow, giving nectar, 1.121.5. Supreme Unslayable Cow is Aditi, all milk is Her and all cows are her manifestations, for Aditi from the highest planes of Sachchidananda, Existence-Consciousness-Bliss, brings Knowledge to all being. To one goal are going streams everywhere bearing milk, Indra the first made their path on slopes of mountain (i.e. of man’s mind), 2.13.2. Indeed, all divines that carry consciousness of Heaven planes downward, carry the knowledge-milk. Perhaps, this is a reason, why Rishis often used the word payas, that can be used in meaning of “milk” or simply as “drink” due to the current context. The Heaven, bull, full of semen, gives bright milk, 1.160.3; from his head cows yield thicken milk, 1.164.7, the milk of the Truth in womb of the highest, 1.79.3. Even Night gives milk, for She also keeps secretly the Knowledge and variously manifest it. Dawn and Night, two well milking, fill of milk, 2.3.6. Even “unripe” (or black) cow also has within “ripe” (or white) milk of knowledge: together with Pushan and Soma Indra brought to birth ripe (milk) within unripe (cows), 2.40.2, etc. The Maruts, good givers, who are born in knowledges, feed waters, a milk full of light, 1.64.6, sprinkle with milk mid-worlds, 1.166.3.