Animal
A curated, evidence-aware list from the frozen product graph.
- cattle (go)animalCows and cattle, the principal wealth of the corpus and the object of the raid that several central myths retell.757linked passages
- horse (aśva)animalThe horse as draught animal, racer and sacrificial victim.234linked passages
- bull (vṛṣabha)animalThe bull and the draught ox: the animal itself, and the same word used of a god whose strength is being praised, which the corpus does not distinguish.201linked passages
- bird (vi)animalBirds, from the omen-bird of the Atharvaveda to the eagle that brings the soma down.106linked passages
- serpent (ahi)animalThe snake, both the animal charmed against in the Atharvaveda and the dragon Indra kills.68linked passages
- livestock (paśu)animalDomestic animals taken together, the standing measure of a household's substance.57linked passages
- sheep (avi)animalSheep, ewe and ram, and the fleece taken from them -- which is why this concept reaches Mandala 9, where the soma runs through a filter of sheep's wool.46linked passages
- wild animal (mṛga)animalThe wild animal as against the herd animal: the deer or beast of the waste, hunted, snared, and used as the image of anything that roams.41linked passages
- buffalo (mahiṣa)animalThe buffalo, dressed three hundred at a time in RV 5.29.7, and the same word applied to any bellowing power.40linked passages
- goat (aja)animalThe goat: the victim led before the horse at the horse sacrifice, the animal cooked with five rice-dishes, and a head of ordinary livestock.17linked passages
- adder (pṛdāku)animalThe pṛ́dāku, a named venomous snake of the Atharvaveda's snake charms, listed beside the cross-lined one, the black snake and the kasarṇī́la, and once set as the guardian of the western quarter. Every occurrence is Atharvavedic.10linked passages
- frog (maṇḍūka)animalThe frog, whose croaking at the first rains is a whole hymn (RV 7.103) and a Yajurvedic sacrificial animal.6linked passages
- dog (śvan)animalThe dog: the household animal that is told to sleep in the two burglary charms, the hound that wakes the Ṛbhus, and one of the hundred gifts of a patron.4linked passages
- scorpion (vṛścika)animalThe scorpion or stinger, slain with a club at AVS 10.4.9, ground up with the constrictor at 10.4.15, and told at RV 1.191.16 that its venom is weak.4linked passages
- constrictor (svaja)animalThe svajá, the snake that coils, named in AVS 10.4 as one of the two things the young physician grinds up. Kept apart from the imperative of svaj- "to embrace", which is the same string at AVS 5.14.10 and 12.3.12.3linked passages
How this list was scoped1
`passage_count` counts DISTINCT passages reaching the object through the lexical, conceptual and ritual predicates this surface counts, and is the same figure the detail view reports. It is NULL, never 0, where no passage reaches it: the mention layer's measured recall is 0.8857, so a null is a lower bound and not an assertion that the corpus is silent.
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