Soma sacrifice
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soma-pressing · Soma-pressing · soma sacrifice · Jyotiṣṭoma · Pavamāna rite · pressing of soma · the pressing · the sacrifice · Soma pressing ritual · drink Soma
spoken of as
3 expressionsSoma-pressing sacrifice8 mentions
Rigveda (Sanskrit) · Sāmaveda (Sanskrit)
Forth have your pressed, sweet Soma-draughts stood ready — they have stood ready for exhilaration and for action.
Soma pressing and purification ritual“Pavamāna rite”3 mentions
Sāmaveda (Sanskrit) · Rigveda (Sanskrit)
O Soma, purifying yourself, ever wakeful, beloved as you flow around through the wool filters;
The Soma-pressing sacrifice1 mention
Rigveda (Sanskrit)
Those who are wealthy and give wealth, pressing-stone in hand at the sacrifice, they praise the god at the sacrifices.
in the texts
Rigveda
The soma sacrifice, the recurring ritual event of pressing and offering soma to invited gods.
Come to us here, to the soma-presser who makes offerings, O Varuṇa and Mitra, to drink of this soma.
And that which Agni and you, O Maruts, all-knowing, bring from beyond the highest ridges of heaven — be glad and shaking, O destroyers of foes, bestow abundance on the sacrificer who presses the soma.
sit ye down upon the barhis-grass for the drinking of soma.
Sāmaveda
The repeated ritual act of pressing, filtering, and offering Soma described across nearly the whole window.
O Soma, purifying yourself, ever wakeful, beloved as you flow around through the wool filters;
Soma, being pressed by the pressers upon the pressing stones from the sheep's wool, goes with a tawny stream like two horses;
O Soma, roaring, pressed with stones, pass through the wool filters of the sheep;
Vīramitrodaya
The major Vedic Soma sacrifice, whose correct timing relative to other rites is the subject of extensive legal analysis.
Does this exception nullify the time-rules for the Soma sacrifice only, or for the *agnyādheya* (fire-establishment) that must precede it, or for both?
The urgency and importance of the Soma sacrifice allow for the supersession of the normal time-rules for both the sacrifice itself and its prerequisite, the *agnyādheya*.
If that were so, the statement of the disregard for the season with respect to a Brahmin would be meaningless, because even in an *agnyādheya* timed for a Soma sacrifice, the season of spring would be unavoidable.
Yājñavalkya Smṛti
A major Vedic sacrifice requiring sufficient grain wealth, to be performed annually.
He whose grain would last for a year should perform the rites preliminary to the Soma sacrifice.
The Soma sacrifice should be performed every year, the animal sacrifice every half-year, and the Āgrayaṇa Iṣṭi and the Cāturmāsyas must also be performed.
In the absence of the means for these, a twice-born should perform the Vaiśvānarī Iṣṭi. One should not perform a rite of a lesser kind when having the resources for a fruitful one. // Yj_1.126 //