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virūpa

Supported

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 source22 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 Yajurveda. 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
Yajurveda22
Atharvaveda
Insufficient evidence
not established

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

  • embryo (garbha)
  • fire altar piling (citi)
  • clarified butter (ghṛta)
  • self (ātman)
  • heaven (dyaus)
  • priest (hotṛ)
  • birth (janman)
  • light (jyotis)

Metres

Insufficient evidenceThe current evidence cannot establish this. That is not the same as an absence from the texts.
Registry details
Registry
YV_VSM_RSISUCI
Normalised name
virūpa
Name decomposition
patronymic-token-equality-v1
Patronymic
Not established
Personal name
virūpa
Family assignment
eponym without stated patronymic