Prajapati Taksha

 

Prajapati Taksha

 

Agudemba bid farewell to Lord Niu on a donkey and began his journey to India. He wanted to understand the history and culture of India. In fact, the focus was on local religion and customs.

To understand India, the most important thing is to understand what "Prajna Prajapati" is. Prajapati literally means "Lord of all living beings" and is a title in Vedic mythology. The meaning of the word "Prajna Prajapati" is very complex. Sometimes it refers to a specific god or a group of specific gods. Sometimes it is just an abstract theological concept. Sometimes it is an alias or title for some gods. The gods they refer to also continue to change with the development of religious theory. Many researchers believe that Prajapati was a deity named Prajapat, whose image was the prototype of the later image of Lord Brahma.

A monk told Agudumba:

In the oldest Indian religious literature, "Prajna Prajapati" is the title of many important gods such as Indra, Soma, Savithari, etc. In a famous hymn dedicated to the nameless God, Prajapati is likened to being contained in the golden womb that gave rise to all things in the world. "Golden Fetus Song".

The monk said: The status of Prajapati reached its peak mainly in the Brahma era. The theological system during this period regarded Prajapati as the highest deity. The process of Prajapati creating the world was to generate heat from himself, use heat to form the three worlds, and the three worlds were formed separately. The "three lights" are fire, wind and sun. However, there is another view of the water-holding creation theory in the Baidao Brahma, which holds that Prajapati was born from water.

What made Agudemba curious was that there were some very strange stories about Prajapati mentioned in the Sanskrit books.

For example, it is said in the Ada Rasha Brahma that Prajapati was seduced by his beautiful daughter Ushas and had incest with her; in order to avoid him, Ushas turned herself into a doe, and Prajapati turned into a stag. Keep chasing her. When Rudra, the guardian of Bodhidharma, found out about this, he became furious and prepared to kill Prajapati with his bow and arrow.

After Prajapati was hit by an arrow, semen flowed out. The semen formed a lake, and from the lake came the rishis, the teachers and priests of the gods. Prajapati then promised to give Rudra power over all wild beasts, and the latter stopped pursuing him. This is why Rudra and its derivative Shiva have the title "Beast Lord".

But in the Conch Brahman Book, it is the sons of Prajapati, the gods, who are seduced by Ushas. When they saw their sister's beauty, they couldn't help but began to have nocturnal emissions. Prajapati collected the semen into a golden bowl, and gave birth to the thousand-eyed Bhava, the original person Pulusha.

There is another theory in the Pandit that Prajapati dropped his semen into Agni's holy fire while masturbating, and his semen turned into ghee used in Vedic sacrifices.

Agudumba understood that from the time of the Upanishads, the status of Prajapati has gradually declined. This is because in the Upanishads two more philosophically speculative concepts "Brahman" and "I" appeared. It is generally believed that the development of Brahmanical philosophy has gone through three stages, namely: the stage in which Prajapati is the highest existence; the stage in which Brahman replaces Prajapati; the stage in which the concept of "I" is put forward and the Brahman and I are identified. It is often repeated in the Tzu Shi Upanishad that "I" is Prajapati; the head of Prajapati is the heaven, the navel is the void, the feet are the earth, and the eyes are the sun, and the original person lives in the eyes of Prajapati. Therefore heaven and earth should be worshiped, because worshiping them is worshiping Prajapati.

In the era when the two great epics were produced, Prajapati lost his status as the soul of the universe and gradually became a simple creator god, and finally became an alias for Brahma and many other gods. Vishnu, Shiva, Surya, and Agni can all be called Prajapati. Early forms of Prajapati were ruled out by other independent gods. Most of the myths of Brahma are integrated into the myths of Brahma. For example, the golden womb became the place where Brahma was born (the Brahma egg). The story of the incest between Prajapati and his daughter Ushas and being punished by Rudra became the incest between Brahma and his daughter eloquent goddess. The story of mother-in-law’s punishment.

In the Manu Dharma, Prajapati usually refers to Brahma, and sometimes to Manu, the son of Brahma. Manu is called the ancestor of mankind. Sometimes it refers to the ten great immortals "born in the heart" of Brahma. There is another legal form of marriage also known as Prajapati.

In the Puranic system, which is the final form of the Indian mythology system, Prajapati is the collective name for a group of gods. The number of gods in this group varies from document to document, sometimes as few as six, sometimes as many as 21.

The more common saying is that the ten 11 living masters born from the soul of Brahma are listed in the Manu Code: Malizhi, Adili, Yujila, Purasidya, Puraha, and Kaladhu. , Jiyu Immortal, Tuosha, Baligu, Narada.

Another common version is the 14 Prajapatis headed by Takshasa mentioned in the Mahabharata: In addition to the above 10 Prajapatis, 4 more Prajapatis, Balazitathasa, Kasyapa and Qiao, were added. Tama, Katama.

Takshasa is a famous Prajapati. Tuosha and his wife gave birth to 60 daughters. They both married men who deserved it. Ten of his daughters were married to Dharmaman, 13 to Keshyap, 27 to Chandra (Moon), two each to Busman, Agris and Krishna. The remaining 4 daughters were married to Takshiya. Their descendants later became all humans on earth.

Later, Dakshasa and his wife prayed to Goddess Shakti, hoping that her incarnation would become their daughter and one day become the wife of Shiva.

Goddess Shakti listened to what Dakshasa said and replied, "I will be born as your daughter in incarnation according to your wish. Then after a long and arduous meditation I will accept Shiva as my husband."

As a result, Sadie was born. Sati is the incarnation of Goddess Shakti.

Many years passed. Sadie became a beautiful girl. Tuosha witnessed the beauty of his daughter, but he had a new idea: "How can I let the beautiful daughter Sati in this world marry a man who always wears tiger skin, a barbarian, and a man who spends all day long? Shiva, who associates with cannibal monks, does not deserve to be the husband my daughter deserves.”

Agudemba rode a donkey and sang "Cradle of Emotion":

 

Everyone will have their own choices,

The choice should be yours.

Even if you are a Prajapati Dakshasa,

Nor should the freedom of marriage be taken away.

 

The world will not be controlled by others,

Even the gods cannot be willful.

Whether it is a human being or Prajapati,

The evil that is sown must be repaid.

 

True love cannot be stopped,

Free choice to obey fate.

Persisting in true love is the cradle of emotion,

Love and justice are the chapters of life.