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.
Speech is measured out in four quarters;
With speech he measures speech, two-footed and four-footed;
When the firstborn of the cosmic order came to me, then I attained a share of this speech.
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.