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)
Auspicious to you be rice and barley — not causing weakness, not causing oppression.
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.
Auspicious to you be rice and barley — not causing weakness, not causing oppression.
rice and barley are two healers, the two immortal sons of heaven.
Prāṇa and apāna are rice and barley;
Rigveda
Personified sacrificial food praised throughout a dedicated hymn as a great, law-sustaining, protective power shared by gods and men.
Now I shall praise the food — great, law-sustaining, vigorous — by whose strength Trita crushed the many-jointed Vṛtra with force.
You, O food, we have refined with our words, as cows press out what is to be offered.
When you, O food, went to the Vivasvat of the mountains, even there, O sweet food, come to us sufficiently for nourishment.