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)
May we find the path that leads to welfare, that is blameless, whereby one wards off all foes and discovers treasure.
Holy Order“Ṛta”3 mentions
Rigveda (Sanskrit)
Keepers of holy order, born of holy order, increasers of holy order, awesome and haters of falsehood — in the most glorious shelter of your favor may we men and our patrons be.
Cosmic/sacred order“Ṛta”1 mention
Rigveda (Sanskrit)
Having found again what was lost of old, he set in motion the guardian of sacred order;
Truth / Sacred Order“Ṛta”1 mention
Rigveda (Sanskrit)
Come, you who meditate on sacred order, whose laws are true — come to the sacrifice.
in the texts
Rigveda
Cosmic and ritual order/truth (ṛta), the right course that gods and rites uphold and worshippers seek to follow.
You, O Agni, were first revealed by Mātariśvan to Vivasvat through your power of right action.
The Agni which Medhyātithi, the Kaṇva, kindled upon the [altar of] Ṛta — his flames have shone;
Those progeny of yours, O Soma — of the immortal one, in the further abode of ṛta, at the crown and navel, O Soma who are longed for — knowing those who adorn themselves, O Soma, you know them.
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Ṛta, the principle of cosmic order, invoked as a bodily correspondence, a wheel encircling heaven, and a first-born figure granting speech.
The twelve-spoked wheel of Ṛta rolls around heaven, never subject to decay.
When the first-born of Ṛta came to me, then at last I obtained a share of this speech.
The rice-oblation itself ate the rice-oblation — with the knee-joints of ṛta as the two knee-joints.
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.
You gods who stand in the middle of the luminous realm of heaven — what is the sacred order for you?
This one, the thought of the seers, is visible to a thousand men, a light that upholds the law;
Against Aristogeiton I
The civic and divine order that preserves public life and is endangered by lawless speech and conduct.
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.
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;
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.
But an army in orderly array is a noble sight to friends, and an unwelcome spectacle to the enemy.
How good it is to keep one’s stock of utensils in order, and how easy to find a suitable place in a house to put each set in, I have already said.
Considering that folk aboard a merchant vessel, even though it be a little one, find room for things and keep order, though tossed violently to and fro, and find what they want to get, though terror-stricken, it would be downright carelessness on our part if we, who have large storerooms in our house to keep everything separate and whose house rests on solid ground, fail to find a good and handy place for everything.