soma pressing (savana)
The act and occasion of pressing out the soma, the rite around which most of the Rigvedic liturgy is organised.
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
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.
- 1
morning pressing (prātaḥsavana)
Numbered by the corpus, not by position: RV 10.112.1 calls it the first draught, "prātaḥsāvas tava hi pūrvapītiḥ". Named by time of day at RV 3.28.1, RV 3.52.4, AVS 6.47.1 and VS 19.26, and assigned to the Asvins by VS 19.26.
- 2
midday pressing (mādhyandina savana)
AVS 6.47.2 numbers it outright, "asmin dvitīye savane", at this second libation. Named by time of day at RV 3.28.4, RV 3.32.3, RV 5.40.4 and VS 19.26, and assigned to Indra by VS 19.26.
- 3
third pressing (tṛtīya savana)
The ordinal is in the text seven times: "tṛtīye savane" (RV 3.28.5), "idaṃ tṛtīyaṃ savanaṃ kavīnām" (AVS 6.47.3), "tṛtīye savana ṛbhūṇām" (AVS 9.1.13), the Rbhus' third libation (RV 4.34.4, RV 4.35.9, RV 8.57.1), and "tṛtīyam āptaṃ savanam" assigned to Sarasvati and the Visve Devas at VS 19.26.
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. 25 of the 25 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.
SankhSS
- SankhSS 6.13.6
nāsaṃsthite savane 'parayā dvārā niḥsarpanti
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
- SankhSS 7.19.6
adhvaryo śoṃśāvo3 ity āhāvaḥ śastrādau mādhyandine savane
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
- SankhSS 10.1.13
śvaḥ sutyā vām indrāgnī tāṃ vāṃ prabravīmi viśvebhyo devebhyo brāhmaṇebhyaḥ somyebhyaḥ somapebhyo brahman vācaṃ yacchety āgnīdhraḥ svasya dhiṣṇyasya paścād upaviśya
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
- SankhSS 14.1.2
yasminn ahani yad ahaḥ pradiśyeta savanaṃ vā sahautraṃ tat
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
- SankhSS 14.33.10
triṣṭubhaṃ mādhyandinaṃ savanam
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
- SankhSS 14.40.1
ādityāś ca ha vā aṅgirasaś cāspardhanta / vayaṃ pūrve svargaṃ lokam eṣyāma ity ādityā vayam ity aṅgirasaḥ / te 'ṅgirasa ādityebhyaḥ procuḥ / śvaḥ sutyā no yājayata na iti / teṣāṃ hāgnir dūta āsa / ta ādityā ūcuḥ / yadi vā ete pūrve yakṣyanty ete pūrve svargaṃ lokaṃ gamiṣyanti / abhi no 'surā bhaviṣyanti / upa taṃ yajñakratuṃ jānīma yena vayaṃ pūrve yajemahīti / ta etaṃ sādyaḥkraṃ yajñakratum apaśyan / teneṣṭvā pūrve svargaṃ lokam āyan / tena svargakāmo yajeta
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
- SankhSS 14.51.1
tam abhy evākrośann anahar jātatayā vaitat pāpyā vālakṣmyā / so 'gnaye sarvāṇi savanāni prāyacchat / tasyāgniḥ sarvām anahar jātatāṃ sarvāṃ pāpīm alakṣṇīṃ niradahat / sa yo 'nahar jātaḥ syād yaṃ vā pāpī vāg abhivadet so 'gniṣṭutā yajeta / tasyāgniḥ sarvām anahar jātatāṃ sarvāṃ pāpīm alakṣmīṃ nirdahati ya evaṃ veda ya u cainena yajate
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
- SankhSS 16.24.14
pañcamasya ca dve savane ṣaṣṭhāt pṛṣṭhyasya pañcame tṛtīyasavanam
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
- SankhSS 17.9.1
athāto mādhyandinaṃ savanam
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
- SankhSS 18.21.13
kḷptaṃ mādhyandinaṃ savanam
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
AsvSS
- AsvSS 5.4.3
mādhyaṃdinasya savanasya dhānā iti mādyaṃdine / tṛtīye dhānāḥ savane puruṣṭuteti tṛtīyasavane / hotā yakṣad indraṃ harivān indro dhānā attv iti praiṣo liṅgair anusavanam
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
- AsvSS 5.4.6
atha sviṣṭakṛto 'gne juṣasva no havir mādhyaṃdine savane jātavedo 'gne tṛtīye savane hi kān iṣa ity anusavanam anuvākyāḥ
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
- AsvSS 5.12.8
madhyamasvareṇedaṃ savanam
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
- AsvSS 6.3.16
evā hy evāpāḥ pūrveṣāṃ harivaḥ sutām evāhīndrāṁ atho idaṃ savanaṃ kevalaṃ te / evā hi śakro mamaddhi somaṃ madhumantam indra vaśīhi śakraḥ saprāvṛṣan jaṭhara āvṛṣasveti
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
- AsvSS 9.10.6
evaṃ pūrve savane bṛhatpṛṣṭheṣv asamāmnāteṣu
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
LatSS
- LatSS 1.4.15
adya sutyā śāṇḍilyasya
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
- LatSS 2.4.16
visaṃsthite savane pūrvayā dvārāntareṇa hotur dhiṣṇyaṃ maitrāvaruṇasya ca saṃcaraḥ
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
- LatSS 4.11.4
prāyaścittaṃ cet kartavyaṃ syād bhūḥ svāheti gārhapatye juhuyāt bhuvaḥ svāheti dakṣiṇāgnāv āgnīdhrīye sutyā cet svaḥ svāhety āhavanīye bhūr bhuvaḥ svaḥ svāheti tatraiva
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
- LatSS 10.10.6
triṃśinaḥ sutyā māsān sarvatra saṃcakṣīran kauṇḍapāyine ca hāviryajñikāṃs tāpaścite ca daikṣopasadān
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
KatySS
- KatySS 7.9.20
subrahmaṇyāṃ cāhvayati subrahmaṇyo3ṃ subrahmaṇyo3m iti trir uktvā sakṛn nigadaṃ yāvad ahe sutyā bhavati tathāha
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
- KatySS 9.5.11
abhiṣavaviparyāso vābhimṛṣṭād aṃśūn apakṛṣya nigrābhyāś cānupūrvyayogāt
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
- KatySS 9.14.17
vasatīvaryardhaṃ cāsiñcaty ādhavanīye viśve devā maruta indro asmān asmin dvitīye savane na jahyur āyuṣmantaḥ priyam eṣāṃ vadanto vayaṃ devānāṃ sumatau syāmeti
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
VaitS
- VaitS 3.8.1
āgnīdhra āgnīdhrīyād aṅgārair dve savane viharati / śalākābhis tṛtīyasavanam / pratyaṅmukho hotṛmaitrāvaruṇabrāhmaṇācchaṃsipotṛneṣṭracchāvākānāṃ dhiṣṇyeṣu mārjālīye
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
- VaitS 3.11.9
saṃsthite saṃsthite savane vācayati mayi bhargo mayi maho mayi yaśo mayi sarvam iti
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
- VaitS 7.2.5
tṛtīye caturviṃśavad dve savane
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
Rites this one contains
Described in
15 passages carry a describes edge for this rite, against 539 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