sacrificial session
The shape of the rite
Each row is one relationship class the graph stores for this rite. An empty row states which layer is missing.
Performed by
Offerings made
Substances used
Objects used
Deities invoked
Undertaken for
Stated order
What the Samhita text numbers in its own words. Three such steps exist in the whole corpus, all on the soma pressing.
Procedure the sutras print
A different claim from the order above, and a different source. Each work below numbers its own sequence independently, so these are located steps rather than one procedure — they do not run together.
Scope note
5 source work(s) each record their own sequence for this rite, numbered from 1 independently, so the groups do not compose into one procedure. 19 of the 20 steps listed state a position without printing the run it falls in. The evidence is Srautasutra and Grhyasutra, never a Samhita passage, and it is a different claim from `steps` -- which is why it is a different field. The cited works have no node in this graph.
KatySS
- KatySS 1.6.13
sattrāṇi brāhmaṇānām ṛtvikśruteḥ
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
- KatySS 12.1.4
dvādaśāhaḥ sattram ahīnaś ca
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
- KatySS 12.1.6
ubhayato 'tirātraṃ sattram upariṣṭād ahīnasya
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
- KatySS 12.4.11
uttareṇa parikramyāpareṇa havirdhānaṃ praviśyottarasya havirdhānasyāparakūbarīm ālambhya sattrasyarddhi gāyanti sattrasya ṛddhir iti
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
- KatySS 12.6.18
kāmyaṃ sattram
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
- KatySS 24.7.29
ayam eva prāyaṇīyo 'tirātraḥ sarvaṃ sattraṃ syāt
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
- KatySS 25.14.31
tatra tad dadyād yat pūrvasmin dāsyant syāt sattre 'py aviśeṣāt
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
LatSS
- LatSS 3.1.23
aindraṃ saha iti camasasya sattre triṣṭupchandasā vājapeyasāmni bhakṣayed iti gautamaḥ
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
- LatSS 3.3.9
dīkṣiṣyamāṇāḥ saṃvaderan saha naḥ sādhukṛtyā nānā pāpakṛtyā yāsmin sattre
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
- LatSS 4.2.9
sarvam anuvīkṣamāṇo japed ākrandā ulūlayaḥ prakośā yavācaṣṭati sarvā sattrasya sā rāddhis tathedaṃ sāma gīyata iti
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
- LatSS 5.7.7
sattraṃ cet syād yajamānā upahūyadhvam ity evopajñānam
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
- LatSS 5.12.6
tat sattre paryāyeṇa kuryuḥ
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
AsvSS
- AsvSS 8.13.7
devā vā adhvaryoḥ prajāpatigṛhapatayaḥ sattram āsata
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
- AsvSS 8.13.31
tad eṣābhiyajñagāthā gīyate / prāyaṇīyaś caturviṃśaṃ pṛṣṭhyo 'bhiplava eva ca / abhijitsvarasāmāno viṣuvān viśvajit tathā / chandomā daśamaṃ cāha uttamaṃ tu mahāvratam / ahīnaikāhaḥ sattrāṇāṃ prakṛtiḥ samudāhriyate / yadyanyadhīyate pūrvadhīyate taṃ pratigrāmantyahāni pañcaviṃśatir yair vai saṃvatsaro mitaḥ / eteṣām eva prabhavas trīṇi ṣaṣṭiśatāni yad iti
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
- AsvSS 10.5.2
sattrāṇi bhaveyuḥ / ahīnā vā
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
- AsvSS 12.15.6
iti sattrāṇi
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
VaitS
- VaitS 4.1.14
gharmavat sattre
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
- VaitS 5.1.3
phālgunyām / sattre pauṣyāṃ tadguṇānurodhāt
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
- VaitS 6.1.1
māghyāḥ purastād ekādaśyāṃ saptadaśāvarāḥ sattram upayanto brāhmaṇoktena dīkṣeran
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
KausS
- KausS 3.3.6
irāvān asi dhārtarāṣṭre tava me sattre rādhyatām iti pratimimīte
Described in
0 passages carry a describes edge for this rite, against 0 that name it. Naming is weaker than describing.
What this ritual model covers
AN INVENTORY OF 103 RITES, NOT A TAXONOMY. The Ritual class holds 103 nodes against a corpus that names considerably more, so a rank in this list is a rank within 103 and says nothing about Vedic ritual as a whole. Two step layers exist and they are not interchangeable. The Samhita layer holds 3 numbered steps in the entire graph, all on the soma pressing, whose morning, midday and third libations the text itself numbers. The procedural layer holds 3,121 steps over 103 rites, read out of Srautasutras and Grhyasutras rather than Samhita passages, and 94% of them state a position without printing the run it falls in -- so a procedure list is not a complete procedure. All 80 apparatus edges are TIER_D curation, and a rite's 'purpose' is what a curator says it is for, not a purpose clause quoted from a passage.
How this rite was modelled4
AN INVENTORY OF 103 RITES, NOT A TAXONOMY. The Ritual class holds 103 nodes against a corpus that names considerably more, so a rank in this list is a rank within 103 and says nothing about Vedic ritual as a whole. Two step layers exist and they are not interchangeable. The Samhita layer holds 3 numbered steps in the entire graph, all on the soma pressing, whose morning, midday and third libations the text itself numbers. The procedural layer holds 3,121 steps over 103 rites, read out of Srautasutras and Grhyasutras rather than Samhita passages, and 94% of them state a position without printing the run it falls in -- so a procedure list is not a complete procedure. All 80 apparatus edges are TIER_D curation, and a rite's 'purpose' is what a curator says it is for, not a purpose clause quoted from a passage.
measuredComplete, and the size of the result is the finding: 3 steps, on 1 of the 8 rites. order_basis = 'SOURCE_STATED_ORDINAL' because the soma pressings are named morning, midday and third in the text itself; no other rite in this corpus states an order, and none was invented for it. Elaborate procedure is Brahmana and Sutra material, so a query about ritual dependency structure is answerable here only in this one instance, and question 39 is otherwise not answerable from the Samhitas.
ritual_step_sequenceComplete: all 8 rites and all 71 edges. Every edge is TIER_D -- the project's judgement that a passage describes a rite, not a statement the passage makes about itself -- and the volume is the honest measure of how much procedure the Samhitas carry: 71 passages out of 22,537. `examples` is capped at 6 per row and `passages` gives the true total beside it. The Yajurvedic majority in several rows is real: the YV is the liturgical collection.
rituals_described_in_passagesThe Anukramani names a 'devata' for every hymn, and 57 of the 214 are not gods: 22 human patrons and seers (Vasistha, Visvamitra, Brbu the carpenter), 7 danastuti labels naming the gift rather than a recipient ('praise of the gift of Sudas son of Pijavana'), and 28 abstractions ruled not to name an addressee, each with its reason recorded. This response excludes all 57 and KEEPS the 5 labels ruled UNDECIDED (Atma, Annam, Brahma, Rati, Saci), because an undecided label removed is a decision made by default. Ask with population=all_ascriptions to see the Anukramani's slot as it stands, with each row's ruling stated.
deity_population_contract