House
place · 3 works · 4 mentions · 6 anchored passages
also in the atlas: House the object
O house · glorious house · home · house · houses · living houses · men's · rooms · storerooms · the house
spoken of as
2 expressionshouses1 mention
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit)
Bearing vigor, single-dung-makers, of excellent vows — may we dwell beside you with these living houses.
the house1 mention
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit)
These houses are sources of joy, full of vigor, full of milk, standing laden with good things — may they recognize us as those who know them.
in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
The domestic dwelling(s), personified and addressed directly across two blessing-hymns.
These houses are sources of joy, full of vigor, full of milk, standing laden with good things — may they recognize us as those who know them.
Beholding the milk of the houses with a benign, friendly eye, I rise up.
Right here I set firm the house, that it may stand in peace, sprinkled with ghee.
Hymn 29 to Hestia
A household space into which Hestia and Hermes are invited to dwell together.
Come and dwell in this glorious house in friendship together;
Economics
The domestic space whose rooms and quarters are designed and arranged for household goods, climate, security, and control of servants.
Considering that folk aboard a merchant vessel, even though it be a little one, find room for things and keep order, though tossed violently to and fro, and find what they want to get, though terror-stricken, it would be downright carelessness on our part if we, who have large storerooms in our house to keep everything separate and whose house rests on solid ground, fail to find a good and handy place for everything.
I showed her the women’s quarters too, separated by a bolted door from the men’s, so that nothing which ought not to be moved may be taken out, and that the servants may not breed without our leave.
I showed her that the whole house fronts south, so that it was obvious that it is sunny in winter and shady in summer.