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Rig Veda · 798 of 1027
Mandala 9: HYMN LXXV. Soma Pavamana.
1.GRACIOUSLY-MINDED he is flowing on his way to win dear names o’er which the Youthful One grows great. The Mighty and Far-seeing One hath mounted now the mighty Sūrya’s car which moves to every side.
2.The Speaker, unassailable Master of this hymn, the Tongue of sacrifice pours forth the pleasant meath. Within the lustrous region of the heavens the Son makes the third secret name of Mother and of Sire.
3.Sending forth flashes he hath bellowed to the jars, led by the men into the golden reservoir. The milky streams of sacrifice have sung to him: he of the triple height shines brightly through the morns.
4.Pressed by the stones, with hymns, and graciously inclined, illuminating both the Parents, Heaven and Earth, He flows in ordered season onward through the flee, a current of sweet juice still swelling day by day.
5.Flow onward, Soma, flow to bring prosperity: cleansed by the men, invest thee with the milky draught. What gladdening drinks thou hast, foaming, exceeding strong, even with these incite Indra to give us wealth.
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Why does the hymn call Soma “the third secret name of Mother and of Sire”?
The hymn says Soma “makes the third secret name of Mother and of Sire” to mark Soma as a sanctifying mediator between cosmic parents and the ritual world. Soma’s pressing, pouring, and mounting Sūrya’s car show it creating a new, hidden identity that links Heaven and Earth through the sacrificial drink.
This chapter treats names as operative: naming effects relationship and power, and Soma’s “third” name is the ritual consummation that makes the Parents fruitful. See the Rig Veda’s broader hymn-cycle where speech and names—like the Tongue of sacrifice here—produce reality, a theme continued in later Vedic works such as the Brhadaranyaka Upanishad.
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