Regarding this text... > The disposition of the Manwantaras may now be > described. It will be remembered that there are > fourteen Manus and ten gavas of the Dashagava. The Vedas talk of ten months of the Dashagwas. I wonder if there is any connection. For there we find that it is with the help of the Navagwas that Indra pursues the trace of the lost kine, but it is only with the aid of the ten Dashagwas that he is able to bring the pursuit to a successful issue and find that Truth, satyam tat, namely, the Sun that was lying in the darkness...But what is meant by the figure of the months ? for it now becomes clear that it is a figure, a parable; the year is symbolic, the months are symbolic.¹ Secret of the Vedas, Page 170 This is that large seat of theirs, the Truth by which they took possession of the months (the ten months of the Dashagwas). Secret of the Vedas, Page 208