Soma
deity figure · 11 works · 87 mentions · 326 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Soma the object
King Soma · Indu · Pavamāna · the pressed Soma · the tawny one · the bull · the pressed soma · the Moon · the drop · the mead
spoken of as
1 expressionKing Soma3 mentions
Manusmṛti (Sanskrit) · Vīramitrodaya (Sanskrit) · Viṣṇu Smṛti (Sanskrit)
128 // He gave ten to Dharma, thirteen to Kashyapa, and twenty-seven to King Soma, with a pleased mind and after honoring them.
in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Deity and sacred drink invoked as source of remedies, protector of the sacrificial gift-giver, and guide along the road.
Soma has encompassed you;
Grant long life to him who gives;
Let the poison be outside his body;
Rigveda
The sacred pressed drink of the sacrifice, personified as a speaking divine authority as well as the offering constantly poured for the gods.
Drink the Soma in due order, O Indra;
drink in due order with the wives of the gods.
O Maruts, drink in due order from the purifier's vessel;
Sāmaveda
The sacred pressed drink and its personified deity, offered to Indra and other gods to exhilarate them for their deeds.
The pressed somas are for you;
Wax mighty with these Soma drops.
You, drinker of soma, quicken us.
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
The moon deity, invoked for Rāma's protection in Kausalyā's benediction.
and may the divine lord Skanda, Soma, and Bṛhaspati protect you.
Let the blessed Soma ordain for me here the finest food — foods to be chewed, foods to be eaten, to be sucked, and to be licked, in great variety.
And these two eyes of the world, the sun and moon — in whom all things are established — even they, mighty as they are, are seized by eclipses.
Manusmṛti
The moon/soma deity, recipient of the domestic oblation alongside Agni.
First to Agni and Soma, and then to both of them together, and to the Vishve-devas, and to Dhanvantari.
210[200M] // Having first performed the rite of propitiation to Agni, Soma, and Yama, he should afterwards satisfy the ancestors by the offering of oblations according to the rule.
128 // He gave ten to Dharma, thirteen to Kashyapa, and twenty-seven to King Soma, with a pleased mind and after honoring them.
Vīramitrodaya
The moon/soma deity, named as recipient of oblations in the middle and end of the lunar month.
/ > Agni and Soma are remembered in the middle, and the Fathers and Soma at the end.
/ > Agni and Soma are remembered in the middle, and the Fathers and Soma at the end.
Because in this verse of Laghu Hārīta, after stating "the Fathers and Soma at the end," and then stating the nature of the intercalary month with "if it passes beyond that," it is understood that the Piṇḍapitṛyajña, which has Soma associated with the Fathers as its deity, should be performed in an intercalary month, it is logical that the verse of Vyāsa, for the sake of syntactical unity, should also refer to this.
Viṣṇu Smṛti
God of the moon and of the sacred draught, invoked in the śrāddha oblation formulas alongside the ancestors.
To Soma, accompanied by the ancestors, *svadhā*, salutation!
may we not be subject to our enemy, O King Soma.
Āṅgirasa Smṛti
The god/deity Soma, identified as the deity of sesame seeds and the foundation of ancestral satisfaction in śrāddha.
sesame seeds have Soma as their deity.
That Soma, pleased by the ancestors, is the excellent ancestral offering given by them.
Therefore, with sesame, the ancestors should always be specially worshipped in all *śrāddhas* (श्राद्धस्).
Bṛhaspati Smṛti
The moon deity, one of the eight gods whose essential particles were extracted to form the king.
from Soma, Agni, the Sun, the Wind, Indra, the Lord of Wealth, the Lord of Waters, and Yama.
Parāśara Smṛti
Moon deity associated with milk in the pañcagavya rite.
Vāyu is declared to be in the curd, Soma in the milk, and the Sun in the clarified butter.
Yājñavalkya Smṛti
Deity said to have given women purity, alongside Gandharva and Pāvaka.
Soma gave them purity, Gandharva gave them sweet speech, and Pāvaka (Fire) gave them all-purifying nature;