Speech
“Vāc”
idea · 2 works · 3 mentions · 6 anchored passages
Vāc · speech
spoken of as
1 expressionVāc“Speech”2 mentions
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit) · Rigveda (Sanskrit)
Of that Speech whose one syllable stands beyond thousands, and whose branches are ten thousand — let whoever would rob me as I speak in the assembly of that Speech now come to distress.
in the texts
Rigveda
Speech (Vāc) treated as a cosmic principle, mostly hidden yet partly manifest, measured by meter and song.
When the firstborn of the cosmic order came to me, then I attained a share of this speech.
Speech is measured out in four quarters;
With speech he measures speech, two-footed and four-footed;
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Personified cosmic Speech, source of the assembly in which the speaker recites.
Of that Speech whose one syllable stands beyond thousands, and whose branches are ten thousand — let whoever would rob me as I speak in the assembly of that Speech now come to distress.