Kṛṇvanto Viśvam Āryam — The Soma Prayer of the Ṛg Veda
Three words from Ṛg Veda 9.63.5 — 'make the whole world noble' — as a window into the Vedic cosmology of Soma: the lunar-restorative principle t…
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Indra — The Vedic God of Thunder, Rain, and Cosmic Order
Indra in the Ṛg Veda — 250 hymns, the slaying of Vṛtra, the release of the waters, the establishment of dawn. Indra in the Purāṇas — the an…
Varuṇa — The All-Seeing Keeper of Cosmic Order
Varuṇa in the earliest Vedic layer — the all-seeing guardian of ṛta, the cosmic moral order, who binds with the noose and releases through compa…
Agni — The Vedic Fire, Priest of the Gods, First Word of the Ṛg Veda
Agni as the Ṛg Veda's opening deity — the purohita placed in front, the divine messenger who carries oblations upward and transmits the sacred dow…