rishi

Brahman

Supported

As a name in the seer apparatus

Insufficient evidenceThis name occupies a traditional seer slot but is classified as abstraction. 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 source	Insufficient evidence	not established
Inherited from the hymn		897 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		897

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

heaven (dyaus)
fire (agni)
earth (pṛthivī)
sacrifice (yajña)
lifespan (āyus)
offering call (svāhā)
waters (āpaḥ)
sacred formulation (brahman)

Metres

yavamadhyā kakubh
2-p. prājāpatyā bṛhatī
ānuṣṭubham
triṣṭubh
3-av. 6-p. atyaṣṭi
trāiṣṭubham
bārhatagarbhā ’nuṣṭubh
3-av. kakummatī pathyāpan̄kti

Registry details

Registry: AV_WHITNEY_ANUKRAMANI
Normalised name: Brahman
Name decomposition: declined
Patronymic: Not established
Personal name: Not established
Family assignment: non seer ascription

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		897

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.
measured