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Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1

Note 331 — Chapter IV · KULĀVAKAVAGGA.

Robert Cæsar Childers translation

It is difficult to convey the impression of the mystic epithet here used of fire. Jātaveda must mean “he who possesses (or perhaps possesses the knowledge of) all that is produced.” It is used not infrequently in the Vedic literature as a peculiarly holy and mystical epithet of Agni, the personification of the mysterious element of fire, and seems to refer to its far-reaching, all-embracing power.

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