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fieryandfluid(conceivedintermsofsoma).Accordingtothismodelsoma,
pouredinthemorningsacrificetofire,becomesthesun.Whenthesunreaches
itszenith,somaispurifiedagainandfallstotheearthasrain.Thismodelis
preservedinthecosmogoniesoftheŚBandintheearlyUpaniṣads(Jurewicz
2016/18).Atthesametime,theComposersoftheearlyUpaniṣadsoften
explicitlyinterpretedmanifestationsofrealityastheoppositionofsubject
andobject.
InearlySmṛtithought,thescopeofthemodelisreducedtothecosmos
andisusedtoexplaintheroleofritualanditsvaliditywhiletheopposition
betweenaspectsofrealityisnotelaboratedinitsterms.Usingcognitive
linguisticsterminology,thegeneralmodelofRealityTransformationsisan
ICMexplaininghowtheworldhasbeencreated,howitfunctionsandwhatis
theroleofman.ThesetypesofICMsareinheritedbysuccessivegenerations
ofphilosophersandaretakenforgrantedbythem.
MyresearchontheRVsuggeststhatthesocalled4mythological’stories
aboutthegodse.g.,thefightofIndrawithVṛtra,areusedbytheComposers
assourcedomainstoconceiveabstractconceptsconnectedwiththemost
fundamentalphilosophicalquestions.Itshouldbenotedthatthemodelsbased
onstoriesaboutthegodsarerarelydescribedatlengthintheRV
.Forexample,
thestoryofthefightofIndrawithVṛtraisdescribedinsomedetailinonlyin
fewhymns(4.18,1.35).Inmostcasestheyareactivatedmetonymically,via
theirmostsalientfeatures.ThismeansthattheRgvedicComposersassumed
thateveryonerememberedthestoriesandknewwhattheywereabout.Atthe
sametime,however,itallowedthemtousetheirsalienceassourcedomains,
thetopologyandscenarioofwhichcouldbemappedontoabstractconcepts.
Thus,themodelofIndraFightsWithVṛtrahasbeenusedtoexpresscosmogony
andcosmologyinmoreconcretetermsthanthegeneralmodelofReality
Transformationandisalsousedforthesituationofthesacrificerduringritual
(Schmidt1992,Jurewicz2010).TheComposersoftheBrāhmanaselaborated
thissourcedomaininaritualcontextbutalsousedittoexpressthemoment
ofradicaltransformationofconsciousness(ŚB6.1.1.3).Inthesamecontext,
theconceptofIndraisusedinAU(2.3.13-14),73CU(8.7),74TU(1.6.1).75
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ThedefinitionofIndrais4theonewhosawthis’(idandra),i.e.theunityofreality(AU1.1.14,
Jurewicz2016/18).
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ItisIndrawhoispresentedasgainingliberatingcognitionandthusbecomesaprototypical
exampleofthosewhoperformitinthesamewayasheistheprototypicalsomadrinkerin
theRV
.InthesameroleitispresentedinKU4.20.
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Theuvulaiscalled4Indra’swomb’(indrayoni)whichbetraystheroleofrecitationwith
properbreathingingainingthealteredstatesofconsciousnesswhichareconceivedasIndra.
InAU3.4.3,KU1.3,6,IndraandPrajāpatiareattheborderlinespherebetweentwoaspects:
PrajāpatiastheembodimentofcreativepowerofrealityandIndraastheembodimentofthe
