Waters
“Āpaḥ”
group · 2 works · 8 mentions · 22 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Waters the idea · Waters the deity
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.
The divine Waters, our mothers, intent on refining, dripping with ghee, have mingled together with honey;
Golden-hued, pure, purifying, the Waters have strode forward, having cast away blame;
The purifying Waters flow in many ways, through all these worlds and through all the regions;
Rigveda
The Waters (Āpaḥ), personified as healing goddesses and as the primordial undifferentiated substance released by Varuṇa.
The Waters who had seen Viśvāvasu, the Gandharva, the Soma — they departed by sacred order.
With both hands, the ten-branched ones, and the tongue that leads speech — with those two free-from-disease [hands], we touch thee with them.
Varuṇa, by his unobstructed might, released the waters.