The ninth Mandala of the
Rigveda
The ''Rigveda'' or ''Rig Veda'' ( ', from ' "praise" and ' "knowledge") is an ancient Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns (''sūktas''). It is one of the four sacred canonical Hindu texts (''śruti'') known as the Vedas. Only one Sh ...
, also called the Soma Mandala, has 114 hymns, entirely (although Griffith marks 9.5 as dedicated to the
Apris Apri (') in Sanskrit means "conciliation, propitiation" and refers to special invocations spoken previous to the offering of oblations in an animal sacrifice. Some scholars have proposed however, that these hymns were originally meant for a family r ...
) devoted to ', "Purifying
Soma
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", the sacred potion of the
Vedic religion.
Similar to
Mandala 8
The eighth Mandala of the Rigveda has 103 hymns. Other than the "family books" (Mandalas 2–7, dated as an old part of the RV) and RV 1 and RV 10 (dated as the latest portion of hymns composed shortly before redaction of the Rigveda into shakhas ...
, it cannot be dated within the relative chronology of the Rigveda as a whole; dealing with the Soma cult, a practice reaching back into
Proto-Indo-Iranian
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times (late 3rd millennium BC), some of its hymns may contain the very oldest parts of the Rigveda, while other hymns may be rather recent relative to the other books. As with book 8, each hymn should be studied independently, since the Soma Mandala was not compiled by the redactors in its preserved form on grounds of authorship or clan affiliation, but topically, grouping the Soma hymns.
List of incipits
9.1 (713)
9.2 (714)
9.3 (715)
9.4 (716)
9.5 (717)
9.6 (718)
9.7 (719)
9.8 (720)
9.9 (721)
9.10 (722)
9.11 (723)
9.12 (724)
9.13 (725)
9.14 (726)
9.15 (727)
9.16 (728)
9.17 (729)
9.18 (730)
9.19 (731)
9.20 (732)
9.21 (733)
9.22 (734)
9.23 (735)
9.24 (736)
9.25 (737)
9.26 (738)
9.27 (739)
9.28 (740)
9.29 (741)
9.30 (742)
9.31 (743)
9.32 (744)
9.33 (745)
9.34 (746) ome Pavamana.
9.35 (747)
9.36 (748)
9.37 (749)
9.38 (750)
9.39 (751)
9.40 (752)
9.41 (753)
9.42 (754)
9.43 (755)
9.44 (756)
9.45 (757)
9.46 (758)
9.47 (759)
9.48 (760)
9.49 (761)
9.50 (762)
9.51 (763)
9.52 (764)
9.53 (765)
9.54 (766)
9.55 (767)
9.56 (768)
9.57 (769)
9.58 (770)
9.59 (771)
9.60 (772)
9.61 (773)
9.62 (774)
9.63 (775) oma Pavanana.
9.64 (776)
9.65 (777)
9.66 (778)
9.67 (779) oma and Others.
9.68 (780)
9.69 (781)
9.70 (782)
9.71 (783)
9.72 (784)
9.73 (785)
9.74 (786)
9.75 (787)
9.76 (788)
9.77 (789)
9.78 (790)
9.79 (791)
9.80 (792)
9.81 (793)
9.82 (794)
9.83 (795)
9.84 (796)
9.85 (797)
9.86 (798)
9.87 (799)
9.88 (800)
9.89 (801)
9.90 (802)
9.91 (803)
9.92 (804)
9.93 (805)
9.94 (806)
9.95 (807)
9.96 (808)
9.97 (809)
9.98 (810)
9.99 (811)
9.100 (812)
9.101 (813)
9.102 (814)
9.103 (815)
9.104 (816)
9.105 (817)
9.106 (818)
9.107 (819)
9.108 (820)
9.109 (821)
9.110 (822)
9.111 (823)
9.112 (824)
9.113 (825)
9.114 (826)
External links
* – English translation by
Ralph T. H. Griffith
Ralph Thomas Hotchkin Griffith (1826–1906) was an English Indologist, a member of the Indian education service and among the first Europeans to translate the Vedas into English. He lived in the UK (Oxford) and in India (Benares and Nilgiris).
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