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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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External source: Shodhganga (Repository of Indian theses)


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�83 81 rich in offspring.
She is approached to assign her followers
82 wealth rich in heroes; and is supplicated to bestow happiness
on them
83 She is invoked to grant strength and energy to her
worshippers.84
85 She is easy of invocation, and is beseeched to favour the
86 She
87 sacrifice among the gods present at the sacrificial spot.
is entreated to enjoy the oblations offered by her worshippers.
She is prayed to approve the deed of the sacrificer 88 and is
requested to be a bearer of the oblations offered by her devotees.
89 In contrast to the other three deities of the group, Anumati
is closely connected with the sacrifice. It is universally believed
that names (particularly of divine beings) have-mystical powers and
their repetitions (namajapa) brings the desired object (Gonda,
Notes on Names and the Names of Gods in Ancient India, London,
1970, 1976, p. 20). In AV VII.21.4, the poet prays to Anumati to
protect the sacrifice, to make it successful and to give wealth
to the sacrificer.
The householder should offer oblations to Anumati along
with Prajapati and other deities of the house from the Vaiśvadeva
food every morning and evening particularly before midday meals.
81 TS III : 3:11, AV VII : 2012, 4 & 5.
82 AV VII : 20: 4 & 5.
83 TS III : 3:11, VS XXXIV 18.
84 VS XXIV:8.
85 TS III : 3:11, AV VII : 2014.
86 AV VII : 20:1, VS XXXIV : 9.
87 AV VII :20 : 2.
88 TB II: 2:7:3.
89 AV VII: 20: 4 & 5.

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