[ 42 ) and from this seed the whole variety of creasion ; and the sun, as consumer, is the moving principle of the whole process. In order lo show the importance of the sun with reference io lhe body. the sage Bhargava asked Pippalada : कल्धव देवा: प्रजां विधायन्ते ? कतर एतत् प्रकाश्यन्ते ? क: पुनरेषां वरिष्ठ इति ? प्रश्न २य, १७ ॥ “Which of the gods specially protects this body ? Who reveals this body ? And who is superior to the olhers ?" Pippalada replied : "this famous deity is the source of the sky. and of air, fire, waler, earth and the body.” “Then the senses, physical as well as intellectual, began lo boast in order to establish their superiorily. (They said) just as pillars support a mansion, so we support ihis body. But the sun replied : Do not boast in this fashion, for it is I who divide myself fivefold and thus sustain the body. But the senses would not believe him. And so the sun wanted io leave the body, and the senses also were drawn up along with him. But (afterwards) the sun was pacified and resumed his soat in the body ; and the senses also were re-established along with him and began to adore the sun." एषोऽग्निस्तपताष स्रुच एष पञ्जेन्धी मघवानिव वायु: । एष प्ठथिवी रयिर्देव; सदसचाच्ठतं यत् । प्र: २१ ।।
