rishi

Atharvan (svastyayanakāmaḥ)

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As a name in the seer apparatus

Recorded as a seer in the traditional apparatus. Most such records are hymn headings rather than verse-by-verse statements, and the split below shows which.

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 source	Insufficient evidence	not established
Inherited from the hymn		21 passages

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 Atharvaveda. 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.
Rigveda	Insufficient evidence	not established
Samaveda	Not yet modelled	not established
Yajurveda	Insufficient evidence	not established
Atharvaveda		21

Family

Insufficient evidenceNot established from current evidence. The apparatus records this name as eponym without stated patronymic, 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)
wellbeing (svasti)
heaven (dyaus)
house (gṛha)
chariot (ratha)
stone (grāvan)
death (mṛtyu)
childbirth (sūṣā)

Metres

ānuṣṭubham
trāiṣṭubham
pathyābṛhatī
jāgatam
gāyatram
pathyāpan̄kti

Registry details

Registry: AV_WHITNEY_ANUKRAMANI
Normalised name: Atharvan (svastyayanakāmaḥ)
Name decomposition: patronymic-token-equality-v1
Patronymic: Not established
Personal name: atharvan
Family assignment: eponym without stated patronymic

Corpus reach

Passages reached

Passages that reach this record through the lexical, conceptual or ritual predicates this surface counts.

Passages reached. Passages that reach this record through the lexical, conceptual or ritual predicates this surface counts.
Rigveda	Insufficient evidence	not established
Samaveda	Insufficient evidence	not established
Yajurveda	Insufficient evidence	not established
Atharvaveda		21

A null is not a zero: it means this object was not reached in that corpus by the lexical, conceptual or ritual predicates counted here. The mention layer's measured recall is 0.8857, so even a reached corpus is a lower bound.

How this record was built3

113 of the 729 :Rishi nodes are NOT seers: the Anukramani's rishi slot also holds the being a hymn addresses, so it contains 58 deities, 21 abstractions, 13 mythic beings, 11 deity groups, 5 plants or animals, 3 collectives and 2 objects. Every row carries `is_seer` and `non_seer_kind`; a false there must not be rendered as a seer, and it is not a reason to render the node as a deity either.
measured
`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.
measured
`co_mentioned` is CO-OCCURRENCE WITHIN A MANTRA and nothing more. It carries no causal, prescriptive or pharmacological claim: a plant named beside an affliction is named beside it, and apamarga is named against sorcery rather than against a cough. `neighbours` holds the curated edges, which are a different strength of claim; the two are separate fields so they cannot be read as one.
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