Ṛta
idea · 6 works · 47 mentions · 125 anchored passages
ṛta · cosmic order · Order · holy order · sacred order · order · truth · Truth · the law · Goddess of Order
spoken of as
4 expressionsOrder“Ṛta”5 mentions
Rigveda (Sanskrit) · Against Aristogeiton I (Greek) · Iliad (Greek) · Economics (Greek)
The charioteers of Order, with purified skill;
Cosmic/sacred order“Ṛta”1 mention
Rigveda (Sanskrit)
you are the charioteers of cosmic order.
Truth / Sacred Order“Ṛta”1 mention
Rigveda (Sanskrit)
on the path of truth Saramā found the cattle.
in the texts
Rigveda
Cosmic and ritual order/truth (ṛta), the right course that gods and rites uphold and worshippers seek to follow.
you two win through ṛta, with the night-beams.
O Aśvins, O increasers of ṛta, drink the sweetest Soma;
There arose a path to cross over, on the right course of ṛta;
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Ṛta, the principle of cosmic order, invoked as a bodily correspondence, a wheel encircling heaven, and a first-born figure granting speech.
They turned back from the seat of Ṛta;
The embryo bears the burden even of him;
The twelve-spoked wheel of Ṛta rolls around heaven, never subject to decay.
Sāmaveda
The Vedic concept of cosmic, ritual, and moral order underlying sacrifice and the gods' own being.
The bright streams of sacred order pour toward you in the seat of Rita.
This one, the thought of the seers, is visible to a thousand men, a light that upholds the law;
You gods who stand in the middle of the luminous realm of heaven — what is the sacred order for you?
Against Aristogeiton I
The civic and divine order that preserves public life and is endangered by lawless speech and conduct.
Why need one repeat that order is everywhere maintained by the laws and by obedience to the laws?
You must magnify the Goddess of Order who loves what is right and preserves every city and every land;
but I do think that I can clearly prove to you that the defendant’s example confounds and destroys all order in law and in government.
Iliad
The orderly arrangement of the sleeping Thracian camp, noted just before its destruction.
their goodly armor was lying on the ground beside them all in order [ kosmos], in three rows, and each man had his yoke of horses beside him.
Economics
The placement and arrangement of people, tools, goods, and actions so they become useful, beautiful, memorable, and ready for use.
And for this again the one reason is that no place of meeting has been fixed.
There is nothing, in short, that does not gain in beauty when set out in order.
I showed her decorated living-rooms for the family that are cool in summer and warm in winter.