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so other instances are given). Prithu was so glad that he called
earth his daughter and hence she is called Prithivi or the daughter
of Prithu. The King al-so crushed the mountains and made the
earth's surface level.
Prithu then commenced a series of Asvamedha Yajfias. Dur-
ing the performance of the hundredth, Indra twice stole away the
sacrificial horse, but Prithu's son restored it on both the occasions.
The performer of one hundred Asvamedha sacrifices becomes an Indra.
This was the cause of Indra's fear. Prithu could not bear the disgraceful
conduct of Indra and he resolved to kill him. The Rishis dissuaded
him and even Brahma and Vishnu appeared to soothe the offended
King and restore his friendship with Indra. Vishnu explained to
Prithu that he had enough to do as a king of the earth and as a pre-
server of the people and that he should not aspire to become Indra,
who had his duties as well.
Sometime after, the Sanat Kumar brothers appeared before the
King and taught him the way to Mukti. He made over the kingdom
to his son Vijitasva and retired into the forest. At last he gave up
the body and went to Vaikuntha.
THOUGHT ON THE ABOVE.
[We left the Monad in its protoplasmic state. The protoplas-
mic mass began to spread out limbs (Anga But the development
of limbs was not an unmixed blessing, for Anga became wedded to
the daughter of Death.
There was no death in the protoplasm. The offspring of the
first connexion with death was Vena.
The root ven means to move. The first moving protoplasmic
mass had too much of unruliness in it, and it was not therefore fitted
for yajna or evolution. It had to be brought under the law and the
black element was churned out. That black element of Tamas had
to wait till the time of the great dissolution. Vishnu had to in-
carnate at this stage as Prithu to suffuse the material mass with satva
and thereby make it conscious. / The course of evolution received
a great impetus. The Monad had passed through elemental and
mineral stages. Organic life had already appeared. Matter had
passed through the grossness and immobility of Tamas and the
irregular, impulsive and purposeless movements of Rajas, till it be-
came permeated with Satva, when those movements assumed the
regularity of conscious acts. The conciousness of Satva made the
future evolution or yajna teem with big possibilities. Earth could
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