Rātrī
deity figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Night
spoken of as
1 expressionNight“Rātri”1 mention
Rigveda (Sanskrit)
In her approach to you with praisable vigours, in the great Heaven's illumining with hymns — Dawn-and-Night, as if knowing all, carry the sacrifice here to the mortal.
in the texts
Rigveda
Personified Night, paired with Dawn in a cosmic simile.
The two great ones, splendidly adorned with beauty — Night and Dawn, like two who do not see each other — Pavamāna desires them as a bull.
In her approach to you with praisable vigours, in the great Heaven's illumining with hymns — Dawn-and-Night, as if knowing all, carry the sacrifice here to the mortal.
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Personified night, especially the new-moon night, invoked for prosperity, protection, and identified with a cow and the spouse of the year.
The Night that approaches as a cow, whom the gods acclaim with joy, who is the spouse of the year — may she be of great good omen to us.
Those who worship you, O Night, as the image of the year — unite their progeny, endowed with long life, with abundance of wealth.
Let us honor the new-moon night with oblation — clothed in vigor, she has come to us with milk.