Substance
A curated, evidence-aware list from the frozen product graph.
- soma juice (soma)substanceThe pressed plant and the juice made from it, drunk by the gods and by the sacrificer; the substance, not the deity of the same name.1,169linked passages
- clarified butter (ghṛta)substanceMelted butter, the commonest liquid oblation and a standing image for anything rich, streaming or nourishing.254linked passages
- food (anna)substanceFood as sustenance and as what the gods are given, distinct from the oblation offered in the fire.251linked passages
- milk (payas)substanceMilk, both the cow's and the figurative milk of clouds, plants and the earth.147linked passages
- honey (madhu)substanceHoney, and the honeyed quality attributed to soma, milk and speech alike.138linked passages
- gold (hiraṇya)substanceGold, both as an object of wealth and as the colour of anything radiant.84linked passages
- barley (yava)substanceBarley, the one cereal the corpus names constantly: ploughed, reaped, eaten, and offered, and the crop against which hunger is measured.38linked passages
- ointment (āñjana)substanceThe āñjana, the salve of the three-peaked mountain: addressed in the second person in AVS 4.9 and 19.44-45 as a protection that grinds up demons and sorceresses, told that fever, balāsa and the snake are its three slaves, and rubbed on by wives at a funeral. Its two names, traikakudá "of the three-peaked mountain" and "of the Yamunā", are folded in here because AVS 4.9.10 says they are both its names.18linked passages
- fermented draught (parisrut)substanceThe draught that has flowed round, poured beside milk, ghee and honey in the sautramani: "payaḥ somaḥ parisrutā ghṛtaṃ madhu" (VS 21.30, VS 21.31), "somaṃ śukraṃ parisrutā sarasvatī" (VS 20.59). Eighteen passages, every one Yajurvedic and not one anywhere else in the corpus.18linked passages
- metal (ayas)substanceMetal, and specifically the dark metal the translators render "iron": the substance of Indra's bolt, of a fort, of a hook and of a blade.11linked passages
- spirituous liquor (surā)substanceThe fermented liquor offered beside the soma in the sautramani: "surayā somaḥ suta āsuto madāya" (VS 19.5), "somasya śuṣmaḥ surayā sutasya" (VS 19.33). Griffith renders it "Wine". The bare stem `surā` is deliberately not an alias: at four characters it is below the sandhi floor, its 116 substring hits are 47% intrusions, and three of its six token hits are the dicing-and-drinking topos of AVS 6.70.1 and RV 7.86.6 rather than an offering.8linked passages
- lead (sīsa)substanceLead, used in the Atharvaveda as the material with which a demon is pierced and in the Yajurveda as one of the metals of the sacrifice.7linked passages
- sesame (tila)substanceSesame, eaten, pressed for oil, and scattered mixed with grain for the dead.5linked passages
- rice (vrīhi)substanceRice, as the standing grain and as the husked grain of the cooked offering; almost entirely an Atharvavedic and Yajurvedic word.3linked passages
- beans (māṣa)substanceThe bean, named in the short lists of cultivated foods rather than described.2linked passages
- silver (rajata)substanceSilver, named beside gold and iron in the short metal lists and in the amulet charms.2linked passages
- copper (loha)substanceCopper or bronze, attested once: VS 18.13 asks that "my copper and my lead and my tin" prosper by sacrifice, in the corpus's one enumeration of the metals.1linked passages
- asvattha woodsubstancepassage count not established
- ashsubstancepassage count not established
- darbha grasssubstancepassage count not established
- cowdungsubstancepassage count not established
- khadira woodsubstancepassage count not established
- claysubstancepassage count not established
- wild ricesubstancepassage count not established
- nyagrodha woodsubstancepassage count not established
- sami woodsubstancepassage count not established
- dark metal (śyāma)substanceThe dark metal named at VSM 18.13, standing inside that verse's metal enumeration between ayas and loha. The registry records the attested token and its position in that list; it does not assert a modern metallurgical identification, for which the traditional readings (iron, or a dark copper alloy) disagree. Only the exact inflected forms are registered: the bare stem token-matches the unrelated verb form śyāma at RV 6.5.7 and substring-matches 22 times inside aśyāma. `śyāmaṃ` is the Yajurvedic witness at VSM 18.13 and `śyāmam` the Atharvavedic one at AVS 11.3.7, one verse before the trapu witness in the same hymn.2linked passages
- syamaka milletsubstancepassage count not established
- husked grainsubstancepassage count not established
- tin (trapu)substanceTin, named in the Atharvaveda's material description at AVS 11.3.8. The exact Sanskrit token is registered because the stored text already attests it; this entry does not infer metal absence from Vedas where that token is not matched.2linked passages
- udumbara woodsubstancepassage count not established
- woolsubstancepassage count not established
- vikankata woodsubstancepassage count not established
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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