Razor
object · 2 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
razor
in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
The ritual razor used by Savitā and then the brahmin to shave the initiate's hair.
With that razor with which Savitā first shaved the hair of the head, the hair of King Varuṇa — with that very razor the brahmin shall shave this man's hair.
When, with a razor of fine keenness, the barber shaves off hair and beard — making the face beautiful, let it not rob this one of life.
Savitṛ has come here with the razor, with warm water — come!
Rigveda
Razor featured in paradoxical riddle imagery.
The hare swallowed the razor point-first;