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All rishi

rishi

agniḥ

Supported

As a name in the seer apparatus

Insufficient evidenceThis name occupies a traditional seer slot but is classified as deity. It is not presented here as a composer of hymns.

How the attribution was recorded

Passages carrying this name, split by whether the source states it for the verse or a hymn heading was projected downward.

How the attribution was recorded. Passages carrying this name, split by whether the source states it for the verse or a hymn heading was projected downward.
Stated by the source3 passages
Inherited from the hymn
Insufficient evidence
not established
  • Inherited from the hymn the hymn heading projected onto every verse inside it

The two are never summed: a statement of the text and a projection of this build are different claims.

Reach by collection

Passages attributed to this name in each corpus.

This layer reaches Rigveda. A collection absent from that list has no coverage here, which is not the same as the name being absent from it.

Reach by collection. Passages attributed to this name in each corpus.
Rigveda3
Samaveda
Not yet modelled
not established
Yajurveda
Insufficient evidence
not established
Atharvaveda
Insufficient evidence
not established

Family

Insufficient evidenceNot established from current evidence. The apparatus records this name as non seer ascription, so no family is asserted rather than none existing.

Deities in these hymns

Insufficient evidenceThe current evidence cannot establish this. That is not the same as an absence from the texts.

Ideas in these hymns

  • fire (agni)
  • immortality (amṛta)
  • kingship (rājan)
  • cosmic order (ṛta)
  • soma juice (soma)

Metres

  • triṣṭup
Registry details
Registry
RV_WSC2023_ANUKRAMANI
Normalised name
agni
Name decomposition
declined
Patronymic
Not established
Personal name
Not established
Family assignment
non seer ascription