Five Peoples
group · 2 works · 6 mentions · 7 anchored passages
five peoples · the five peoples · pañca janāḥ · these five human regions · these five peoples
spoken of as
1 expressionThe five peoples1 mention
Rigveda (Sanskrit)
He who alone rules over men and over riches — Indra, lord of the five peoples.
in the texts
Rigveda
Traditional collective term for the peoples/tribes encompassed by divine power.
That power which is hard to overcome in battles, which is praiseworthy in contests, which encompasses the five peoples — O Indra and Agni, we invoke that power of yours.
Whatever might and heroic strength, O Indra, is among the Nāhuṣas and in the tribes, or the glory of the five peoples — bring all of it, all manly powers, together.
Agni is the seer, Pavamāna, the household priest of the five peoples;
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Traditional fivefold division of humanity, invoked to bring prosperity.
These five human regions, these five peoples — all of them, auspicious and joy-giving, after rain like rivers that shed curse, may they bring prosperity together here.
May the Five Peoples call you;
may the Five Peoples yoke [him who is] endowed with good offspring.