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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The Vedic Aryans thus thought her to be a goddess who
played some role in the sacrifice performed by the people.
She
was considered by them as great and also as everybody's destination.
笔谤茅苍颈
It is seen that Pr谩ni is sometimes personified as a goddess.
here her
She is the speech situated in the middle sphere of the
49 atmosphere and it is milked while being born
quality as a cow may be noticed. She is personified as the
earth, and is regarded as pleasing, she is white-coloured.
51 is held to be the mother of the Maruts.
50 She
'Frani' means the leather water bag, hence her association
with the Maruts, precursors of rain. She is also Rudra's wife
because as the ruddy cloud ushering rainfall Rudra is connected
with Freni, the waterbag.
Rohini
Rohi峁噄 is sometimes personified as a goddess. She is
supplicated to establish the sacrificers in the well-attained
fruits of the deeds related to sacrifice, she is entreated to
49 V X : 6119, VIII : 7:3.
50 RV I : 160:3.
51 RV VIII : 7:3, I : 23110.
