Food
“Anna”
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Anna · barley · food · honeyed food · rice · sweet food
spoken of as
1 expressionRice and barley“food”1 mention
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit)
Prāṇa and apāna are rice and barley;
in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
The staple foods rice and barley, ritually rendered auspicious, praised as healers, and identified with the cosmic breaths prāṇa and apāna.
Prāṇa and apāna are rice and barley;
rice and barley are two healers, the two immortal sons of heaven.
Auspicious to you be rice and barley — not causing weakness, not causing oppression.
Rigveda
Personified sacrificial food praised throughout a dedicated hymn as a great, law-sustaining, protective power shared by gods and men.
Come to us, O food;
yours, O food, is the sweetest.
O sweet food, O honeyed food — we have chosen you.