Tag: Soma Yagna
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Nivid Mantras are Riddles
Nivid Mantras are riddles What are Nivid Mantras? How do some of these represent the numbers of Devas to be 33? Nivids are a class of Vedic mantras. Some Indologists believe Nivids to predate the other mantras in the Vedas. The performers of the Soma Yagna remember this story even today. According to the story, a complex…
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Parjanya, Croaking frogs and Vedic chanting
We will explore three related ideas in this post, namely, Parjanya the rain god, Manduka, the croaking frog and Vedic chanting in a group. Since the past few decades, some people trivialize the sound of Vedic chants by comparing it to the croaking of frogs. Further they quote the croaking frog poem in the Rig…