tradition
Vedic tradition
The ritual and poetic world preserved in the Vedas of ancient South Asia, centered on fire, speech, and sacrifice.
Also known as Vedic religion
Meetings with this tradition
Vedic tradition contains Three.
Vedic poetry works with grouped threes (fires, worlds, strides). The count is a poetic-ritual habit, not a Greek fate-triad.
from Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation) · The Rigveda, 2014 (this translation); hymns much older
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Fire is used in Vedic tradition.
The Ṛgveda addresses Agni as the fire that carries the offering. Fire here is a ritual person, not a laboratory furnace.
from Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation) · The Rigveda, 2014 (this translation); hymns much older
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Offerings belongs to Vedic tradition.
Vedic hymns are themselves part of the offering. The gift is fire, speech, and food in a South Asian rite.
from Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation) · The Rigveda, 2014 (this translation); hymns much older
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Peacock appears in Vedic tradition.
The bird is South Asian. Vedic and later Indian peafowl jobs exist; Hera’s peacock is a Mediterranean garden-story about the same species. Do not merge the cults.
from Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation) · The Rigveda, 2014 (this translation); hymns much older
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Soma appears in Vedic tradition.
The Ṛgveda hymns soma as a pressed plant and its drink in Vedic rite. South Asian sacrificial speech, not Zoroastrian haoma under another spelling.
from Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation) · The Rigveda, 2014 (this translation); hymns much older
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Vajra appears in Vedic tradition.
The Ṛgveda repeatedly names Indra’s vajra as the striking-weapon of the hymns. Vedic thunderbolt-speech, not later Buddhist ritual dorje as this edge, and not Mjolnir.
from Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation) · The Rigveda, 2014 (this translation); hymns much older
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Barley appears in Vedic tradition.
The Rigveda names yava, barley, among grains of offering. A named cereal in that hymn-corpus, not soma the pressed drink and not Dioscorides’ ptisan.
from Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation) · The Rigveda, 2014 (this translation); hymns much older
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Meetings in this tradition's context
Vedic hymns join sunlight and the sacrificial fire without making them one substance. Agni is the fire of the offering; the sun is another heat.
from Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation) · The Rigveda, 2014 (this translation); hymns much older
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Vedic sacrifice is enacted in fire. The gift is cooked and sent; that is a South Asian ritual technology.
from Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation) · The Rigveda, 2014 (this translation); hymns much older
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Three is associated with Fire.
Vedic ritual knows a set of sacrificial fires. Three here is a ritual architecture, not the Moirai.
from Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation) · The Rigveda, 2014 (this translation); hymns much older
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Vedic offering and later household customs use fire to make a thing fit for a god or a table. Purification is a local job of flame, not a global essence.
from Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation) · The Rigveda, 2014 (this translation); hymns much older
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Zero is associated with Knowledge.
Indian mathematics treats śūnya as a numeral and a place in positional notation. That is a history of calculation, not a Theosophical emptiness.
from Kim Plofker · Mathematics in India, 2009
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Zero is associated with Writing.
A numeral is a written mark. Plofker’s history is about Indian mathematics, not an occult alphabet of the void.
from Kim Plofker · Mathematics in India, 2009
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The Ṛgveda presses soma as a plant-gift poured in Vedic rite. A named South Asian offering-job for that plant, not Zoroastrian haoma, and not the appears_in tradition row already stored.
from Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation) · The Rigveda, 2014 (this translation); hymns much older
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The Ṛgveda names barley among the grains of Vedic rite and gift. A named South Asian offering-job for that grain, not Dioscorides’ pharmacy barley, and not the appears_in tradition row already stored.
from Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation) · The Rigveda, 2014 (this translation); hymns much older
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sources
- The Rigveda · Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation)
Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton, The Rigveda: The Earliest Religious Poetry of India.
- Mathematics in India · Kim Plofker
Kim Plofker, Mathematics in India.