Essay name: Goddesses from the Samhitas to the Sutras
Author:
Rajeshri Goswami
Affiliation: Jadavpur University / Department of Sanskrit
This essay studies the Goddesses from the Samhitas to the Sutras. In short, this thesis examines Vedic goddesses by analyzing their images, functions, and social positions. It further details how natural and abstract elements were personified as goddesses, whose characteristics evolved with societal changes.
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They are lustrous, and they have a bright skin, and are as
62 brilliant as the Maruts. They are golden-coloured, and are as
radiant as gold 63
64 They are sung to by the devotees, and they are exalted by
all the gods with praises.
65 66
67.
68 69
70 They are immortal, vast, industrious capable inviolable?"
and powerful?1 They personify the vital airs? 2 and are the source of
73 74.
life of everything. They are furnished with milk - here their
quality as a cow may be noticed. They are the embodiment of faith,
and they personify the truth and the thunderbolt? They are an
76 75
77 abode for all the gods, and are also the abode of the four Vedas.
61掳 RV X : 17 : 10,
Ch B II : 8 : 5,
TS V ; 6; 1, MS II, 7 : 134, II : 6 : 17,
TB II : 3 : 7 : 2, II : 3 : 7 : 1, I : 2 : 5 : 5,
SB I : 1 : 1 : 7.
62 MB II : 6: 17.
63 TB II : 3 : 7 : 6, AV I : 33: 1, 2 & 3.
+
64 RV X : 30: 13, VS XIV: 4, MS IV : 1 1 27.
65 VS XIV 1 4.
66 AV IV: 216, KB (RV) XII: 1, GB I ; 39, SB II : 3:2:19.
67 VS IV : 7, XI : 50, SB II : 3 : 1 : 15, Sv B III: 4: 30,
1:
III : 4 : 35.
68 VS X : 7.
69 MS II : 6 : 17, AV VI : 24 : 3, TB II + 3 1914, VS VI : 27,
IV : 7, SB III : 5 : 3:9.
70 VS XX : 18, X : 3.
71 VS VI : 27, IV 1 7, MS II : 6 17, AV VI : 24 : 3,
TB II 1 3: 9: 4, SB III : 5:39.
72 Pv B IX : 9 # 4.
73 JB III: 2 : 5 : 9, TB I 1 25 # 6.
74 RV X ; 17: 14, AV IV
#
8: 5 & 6.
75 MS IV : 1 ; 27.
76 77
or
SB V : 14 : 3 # 13.
GB II : 24.
