Soma
object · 3 works · 19 mentions · 55 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Soma the deity
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in the texts
Rigveda
The pressed sacrificial drink (Soma/Indu) offered to the gods, especially Indra and Vāyu, at the ritual.
O Vāyu, come with gleaming bounty, and Indra too — come with bounty.
And that sweet honey-dropping bee pours in the joy of Soma — the son of Uśij calls upon you.
Borne by the Adhvaryus, they have been arranged, O Vāyu — the bright ones have been arranged.
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Soma, the pressed ritual drink offered to the gods, mentioned in both the Mitra-Varuṇa and Indra hymns.
for whom the bright soma flows, adorned with sacred prayer — may he release us from sin.
You two of true strength who thrust aside the one who injures, who protect Satyavān further in his invocations, who come with the human-watching, tawny-brown one to the pressed soma — release us from sin.
Manusmṛti
The sacred ritual drink/sacrifice central to twice-born sacrificial practice.
He who has a three-year supply of food sufficient for the maintenance of his dependents, or even more, he is entitled to drink Soma.
But that twice-born who, having less wealth than this, drinks Soma, he, even if he has previously drunk Soma, does not obtain the fruit of it.
A Brāhmaṇa who drinks Soma, having smelled the scent of a liquor-drinker, is purified by thrice suppressing his breath in water and eating ghee.