Skip to content
VedAnvaya
All concept

concept

grahaṇa

ritual taking up (grahaṇa)

The act of taking an implement or an offering in hand, spoken in the first person while it is done: "gṛhṇāmi", I take. Twenty passages, twelve Yajurvedic, eight Atharvavedic and not one Rigvedic, which is what a formulary looks like measured against a hymn collection. The full formula is at VS 1.10 -- "by the impulse of god Savitar, with the arms of the Asvins, with the hands of Pusan, acceptable to Agni, I take thee".

Supported