Philosophical concept
A curated, evidence-aware list from the frozen product graph.
- speech (vāc)philosophical conceptSpeech as a power: the voice that carries the hymn and, in some hymns, a cosmic agent in her own right.651linked passages
- sacred formulation (brahman)philosophical conceptThe formulated sacred utterance and the power in it, before the word acquired its later Upanishadic sense.482linked passages
- cosmic order (ṛta)philosophical conceptThe right ordering of the world, of the seasons and of the rite, which gods and men are said to follow rather than to legislate.450linked passages
- insight (dhī)philosophical conceptVisionary thought, the poet's insight that produces the hymn rather than ordinary reasoning.421linked passages
- mind (manas)philosophical conceptMind as the seat of intention and attention, something that can go away and be called back.342linked passages
- immortality (amṛta)philosophical conceptDeathlessness, the condition of the gods and the thing the sacrificer hopes the rite will extend to him.238linked passages
- truth (satya)philosophical conceptWhat is real and holds good, said of gods, of speech and of a promise.171linked passages
- wile (māyā)philosophical conceptTransformative craft, admirable in a god and treacherous in an enemy, with the same word for both.78linked passages
- ascetic heat (tapas)philosophical conceptHeat generated by austerity, treated as a productive power rather than as self-denial.76linked passages
- self (ātman)philosophical conceptThe self or animating principle of a being, still concrete in this corpus and not yet the Upanishadic absolute.58linked passages
- faith (śraddhā)philosophical conceptTrust that the rite and the god will hold good; in RV 10.151 a power addressed in its own right.31linked passages
- existence (sat)philosophical conceptThe existent, what is, as against what is not. In this corpus still a substantivised neuter participle of as- 'to be' and not yet a settled noun: it is predicated of things and asked after, as in the one Being the sages call by many names (RV 1.164.46), and it is not the Upanishadic Being. Distinct from satya 'truth', which is a different stem with its own entity, VG:CONCEPT:SATYA-TRUTH; the two alias sets are disjoint and neither leaks into the other.14linked passages
- non-existence (asat)philosophical conceptNon-existence: the asat of "there was neither non-existence nor existence then" (RV 10.129.1). Unlike sat it is already a noun in its own right -- the Rigvedic annotation lemmatises it asant-, separately from the root -- and existence is twice said to have sprung from it (RV 10.72.2-3). In the Atharvaveda it is one pole of a paired cosmological formula (AVS 4.1.1, 10.7.10, 17.1.19). Not filed under VG:CONCEPT:SAT-EXISTENCE: non-existence is not a kind of existence.8linked 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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