Skip to content
VedAnvaya
Search
All modelled rites

the rite for a safe journey

Partial coverageReal evidence exists, and this layer is incomplete.

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

Insufficient evidence

Offerings made

Insufficient evidence

Substances used

Insufficient evidence

Objects used

amulet (maṇi)

Deities invoked

Insufficient evidence

Undertaken for

Insufficient evidence

Stated order

What the Samhita text numbers in its own words. Three such steps exist in the whole corpus, all on the soma pressing.

Not yet modelledThis is the Samhita-numbered layer, and 3 such edges exist in the entire graph, all on the soma pressing, whose morning, midday and third libations the text itself numbers. No other rite in this corpus states an order in its own words and none was invented for it -- elaborate procedure is Brahmana and Sutra material. Read `procedure` before concluding the rite has no recorded sequence: an empty `steps` is an unbuilt Samhita layer, not an unstructured rite.

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

7 source work(s) each record their own sequence for this rite, numbered from 1 independently, so the groups do not compose into one procedure. 32 of the 33 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.

GobhGSgrhyasutra · SV_KAU · 7 steps

  1. GobhGS 1.4.20

    sarvasya tv evānnasyaitān balīn haret pitryasya vā svastyayanasya vārthārthasya vā

    The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.

  2. GobhGS 3.8.6

    brāhmaṇān bhojayitvā svayaṃ bhuktvā jātuṣān maṇīn sarvauṣadhimiśrān ābadhnīran svastyayanārtham

    The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.

  3. GobhGS 3.9.21

    svastyayanāni prayujya yathājñānam

    The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.

  4. GobhGS 4.6.12

    sandhivelayor upasthānaṃ svastyayanam āditya nāvam ity udyantaṃ tvādityānūdiyāsam iti pūrvāhṇe pratitiṣṭhantaṃ tvādityānupratitiṣṭhāsam ity aparāhṇe

    The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.

  5. GobhGS 4.8.6

    svastyayanam

    The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.

  6. GobhGS 4.9.11

    sahāyānāṃ ca svastyayanam

    The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.

  7. GobhGS 4.9.18

    svastyayanārtham

    The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.

KausSgrhyasutra · AV_SAU · 7 steps

  1. KausS 1.8.2

    svastyayaneṣu ca

    The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.

  2. KausS 5.10.53

    prehi prahareti kāpiñjalāni svastyayanāni bhavanti

    The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.

  3. KausS 5.10.54

    prehi prahara vā dāvān gṛhebhyaḥ svastaye / kapiñjala pradakṣiṇaṃ śatapattrābhi no vada / bhadraṃ vada dakṣiṇato bhadram uttarato vada / bhadraṃ purastān no vada bhadraṃ paścāt kapiñjala / śunaṃ vada dakṣiṇataḥ śunam uttarato vada / śunaṃ purastān no vada śunaṃ paścāt kapiñjala / bhadraṃ vada putrair bhadraṃ vada gṛheṣu ca / bhadram asmākaṃ vada bhadraṃ no abhayaṃ vada / āvadaṃstvaṃ śakune bhadram āvada tūṣṇīm āsīnaḥ sumatiṃ cikiddhi naḥ / yad utpatan vadasi karkarir yathā bṛhad vadema vidathe suvīrāḥ / yauvanāni mahayasi jigyuṣām iva dundubhiḥ / kapiñjala pradakṣiṇaṃ śatapattrābhi no vada / iti kāpiñjalāni svastyayanāni bhavanti

    The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.

  4. KausS 7.10.14

    tyam ū ṣu trātāram ā mandrair iti svastyayanakāmaḥ

    The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.

  5. KausS 7.10.29

    yo agnāv iti rudrān svastyayanakāmaḥ svastyayanakāmaḥ

    The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.

  6. KausS 11.3.47

    svastyayanāni prayuñjīta

    The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.

  7. KausS 14.3.7

    tato 'bhayair aparājitair gaṇakarmabhir viśvakarmabhir āyuṣyaiḥ svastyayanair ājyaṃ juhuyāt

    The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.

KausGSgrhyasutra · RV_SAK · 6 steps

  1. KausGS 2.6.3

    bhaikṣair ācāryaṃ svastivācya araṇye samitpāṇiḥ sandhyām upāste nityaṃ vāgyata uttarāparamabhimukho 'nvaṣṭamadeśam ardhāstamite maṇḍale ā nakṣatrāṇāṃ darśanāt / atikrāntāyāṃ mahāvyāhṛtīḥ sāvitrīṃ svastyayanāni ca japitvā

    The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.

  2. KausGS 3.3.7

    etayaivāvṛtāṣāḍhyāṃ paurṇamāsyāṃ svastyayanam ity ācakṣate

    The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.

  3. KausGS 3.7.12

    hutaśeṣāddhaviḥ prāśya dadhikrāvṇo akāriṣam ity ācamyopaviśya mahāvyāhṛtayaḥ sāvitrīṃ vedādiprabhṛti svastyayanāni ca japitvā ācāryaṃ svasti vācya

    The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.

  4. KausGS 3.13.13

    udakaṃ pariṣyan svastyayanaṃ karoti

    The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.

  5. KausGS 4.1.4

    śuklair alaṅkṛtya mahāvyāhṛtayaḥ sāvitrīṃ svastyayanāni ca japitvā mucyate sarvapāpebhyo rogebhyaś ca bhayebhyaś ca

    The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.

  6. KausGS 4.1.6

    muñcāmi tvā haviṣā jīvanāya kam iti trīṇi sūktāni japati purastāt svastyayanānām

    The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.

AsvGSgrhyasutra · RV_SAK · 5 steps

  1. AsvGS 1.8.14

    atha svastyayanaṃ vācayīta

    The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.

  2. AsvGS 2.3.13

    saṃhāya sauryāṇi svastyayanāni ca japitvānnaṃ saṃskṛtya brāhmaṇān bhojayitvā svastyayanaṃ vācayīta

    The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.

  3. AsvGS 2.7.12

    yatra sarvatrāpaḥ prasyanderant sā svastyayanyadyūtā ca

    The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.

  4. AsvGS 4.6.18

    udita āditye sauryāṇi svastyayanāni ca japitvānnaṃ saṃskṛtyāpa naḥ śośucad agham iti pratyṛcaṃ hutvā brāhmaṇān bhojayitvā svastyayanaṃ vācayīta

    The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.

  5. AsvGS 4.8.34

    niyogāttu prāśnīyāt svastyayana iti

    The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.

SankhGSgrhyasutra · RV_SAK · 4 steps

  1. SankhGS 1.3.2

    prātar yatraitan mahāvṛkṣāgrāṇi sūrya ātapati sa homakālaḥ svastyayanatamaḥ sarvāsām āvṛtām anyatra nirdeśāt

    The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.

  2. SankhGS 2.9.2

    atikrāntāyāṃ mahāvyāhṛtīḥ sāvitrīṃ svastyayanāni ca japitvā

    The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.

  3. SankhGS 4.5.12

    mahāvyāhṛtīḥ sāvitrīṃ vedādiprabhṛtīni svastyayanāni ca japitvā

    The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.

  4. SankhGS 4.14.1

    udakaṃ tariṣyan svastyayanaṃ karoti

    The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.

SankhSSsrautasutra · RV_SAK · 3 steps

  1. SankhSS 4.17.1

    rudraṃ gavā yajate svastyayanāya

    The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.

  2. SankhSS 16.1.14

    pūṣā vai pathīnām adhipaḥ / svastyayanam eva tad aśvāya karoti

    The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.

  3. SankhSS 16.10.15

    vāg vai pathyā svastiḥ svastyayanam eva tad yajñe yajamānāya karoti

    The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.

AsvSSsrautasutra · RV_SAK · 1 step

  1. AsvSS 2.10.5

    svastyayanyāṃ rakṣitavantau

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.

    measured

  • Complete, 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_sequence

  • Complete: 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_passages

  • The 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