Waters
“Āpaḥ”
group · 2 works · 8 mentions · 22 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Waters the idea · Waters the deity · Waters the object
the Waters · Āpaḥ · divine waters · Āpas · O Waters · divine Waters · the divine Waters
in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
The purifying divine Waters, addressed as mothers who release worshippers from sin, blame, death, and defilement.
When they flow, the Waters purify;
May the Waters, our mothers, refine us;
You, O Waters, hold the glory of heroes;
Rigveda
The Waters (Āpaḥ), personified as healing goddesses and as the primordial undifferentiated substance released by Varuṇa.
the Waters dispel disease.
all this was undifferentiated water.
Varuṇa, by his unobstructed might, released the waters.