Agni

quoted 63 times by 6 works · as a person

Most often quoted — the words themselves, in quotation. The locus given for each is the passage in the quoting book; the harvest records no place inside what is quoted, and nothing here pretends to.

51 quoted · 12 reported

4 authority 56 neutral 1 refuted 2 endorsed

in the voice of the poet 16 , ritual practitioner 5 , ritual performer 4 , the worshippers 4 , Agni 3 , officiant 3 , the priest 3 , the reciter 2 , Gaṅgā 1 , Rāma 1

quoted by

6 works

in the voice of the poet
Rigveda Aufrecht (ed.) 1 authority 32 neutral 1 endorsed 34 citations · 124 passages

maṇḍala 1 46 passages anchored here · maṇḍala 2 6 passages anchored here · maṇḍala 3 12 passages anchored here · maṇḍala 4 5 passages anchored here · maṇḍala 5 4 passages anchored here · maṇḍala 6 2 passages anchored here · maṇḍala 7 14 passages anchored here · maṇḍala 8 2 passages anchored here

and 1 more chapter

maṇḍala 10 33 passages anchored here

Captures the question-and-answer exchange establishing Agni's identity as the celebrated name.

O Agni, O offspring of Strength, protect the singer from distress with iron fortresses.

maṇḍala 1 ¶
in the voice of ritual performer
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) Anonymous (Vedic) 1 authority 17 neutral 1 refuted 1 endorsed 20 citations · 96 passages

kanda 1 5 passages anchored here · kanda 2 24 passages anchored here · kanda 3 3 passages anchored here · kanda 5 5 passages anchored here · kanda 12 29 passages anchored here · kanda 18 13 passages anchored here · kanda 19 17 passages anchored here

First-person and imperative address to Agni and the maiden across the marriage hymn.

O Agni, let the arrows fly back upon the sorcerer-maker, the mortal enemy.

kanda 2 ¶
in the voice of the gods
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa Vālmīki 4 neutral 4 citations · 14 passages

kanda 1 3 passages anchored here · kanda 6 11 passages anchored here

The gods' commissioning words to Agni are directly quoted.

Going then, Rāma, to Mount Kailāsa adorned with minerals, all the gods commissioned Agni for the purpose of obtaining a son.

kanda 1 ¶
in the voice of poet/priest
Sāmaveda Anonymous (Vedic) 1 authority 2 neutral 3 citations · 4 passages

prapāṭhaka 1 · prapāṭhaka 7 2 passages anchored here · prapāṭhaka 10

The poet directly questions Agni in the second person, a discrete speech act within the hymn.

Whose hymns do you delight in?

prapāṭhaka 1 ¶
Manusmṛti Manu 1 authority 1 citation

chapter 9

Formal declaration of a named vow constitutes a rule-stating speech act attributed to Agni's exemplary conduct.

He should be ever endowed with majesty, fiery towards sinful acts, and a destroyer of wicked vassals;

chapter 9 ¶
in the voice of the accused
Yājñavalkya Smṛti Yājñavalkya 1 neutral 1 citation

chapter 2

The passage quotes the accused's spoken address to Fire directly.

"O Fire, you move within all beings, O Purifier.

chapter 2 ¶

the marks

authority: relied on as a source of legitimacy
neutral: identified or reported
refuted: argued against
extended: developed or continued
endorsed: agreed with
roman: the cited text is in the library and opens in the reader
italic: named by this text, not held by the library — the corpus's wanted list
¶: the passage in this text that does the citing
7: beside a chapter, the passages anchored there. A single citation can quote more than one passage, which is why a row carries two figures: the citations the harvest recorded, and the passages its chapters add up to.