Odana
object · 1 work · 5 mentions · 18 anchored passages
odana · purificatory rice-oblation · rice-oblation · rice-porridge · cooked offering · pure rice-oblation · rice-dish · the pure rice-oblation
spoken of as
1 expressionRice-porridge offering“odana”1 mention
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit)
O two divinities, who cook the rice-porridge here — heat it for us and know it truly as ours.
in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
A sacrificial rice-porridge oblation personified and addressed as a means of ascent to the world of the well-doer.
Your two ageless, winged pinions, O Odana, with which you drive away the demons — by means of those two may we fly to the world of the well-doer, where the ancient seers, the first-born of old, dwell.
From where you stand, O Odana, on the back of heaven, in the wide expanse above — the Brāhmaṇas who hold the eternal law followed you along together with their generous bounty.
Having cooked the aja and the five rice-porridges, the gods fully attained the worlds.