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SOMA
Soma.
11., 85-92; 41, 118, 342, 355 ; 44, (a) The S. plani and drink.
491; represents offspring, 26, 68; (6) S., the god, in mythology.
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S., 26, 72, 150-2 ; the bought S. an (a) THE S. PLANT AND DRINK. embryo, 26, 73, 76 ; procession and
S. offered by the Devas on the entrance of King S., 26, 75-85, 442 altar Parganya, 1, 78 sq. ; Asvattha sq., 445 ; is in the mountains, 26, tree showering down S., in the 77; is said to fly away having beworld of Brahman, 1, 131, 132 n.; come a falcon, 26, 80; Vasativarî, the buying of the (king) S., 2, 68; Ekadhanâ, and Nigrâbhyâ waters 26, 49 sq., 53 sq., 56, 63-75, 152, mixed with S., 26, 102, 102 11., 147, 442 sq., 445, 474; 30, 329 sq. ; 41, 222-6, 231-3, 232 n., 235-8, 240, 9, 117 sq. and n., 181 sq., 342; 43, 242 sq., 244 n., 247, 257 n., 293 sq. ; 256; sin of selling S., 2, 257; 7, construction of S.-carts and sheds, 177, 14, 5, 12, 69, 115; 25, 105, and preparation of the pressing105 n., 109, 421; 33, 57, 57 n.; the place, &c., 26, 126-55, 128 n.; he
drinker of S.,' i. e. S, sacrificer, 2, who presses S. kills him, 26, 239 sq., 273 ; 14, 13, 137; 49 (i), 22; drink 243, 251, 340, 363 n.; 44, 2 ; being S. purifies from sin, 2, 276; 8, came sacrificial food for the gods, 84; 14, 117; the waters are the 26, 242, 245 sq., 258 sq. ; 44, 16; first to drink S., 12, 21; the S. etymology of S., 26, 246; vessels pressing, 12, 26; 42, 131, 180 sq., used at the S, pressing, 26, 259 n.; 438 sq., 440 ; 46, 42 sq., 148, 153, mountains and stones his body, 26, 317; Agni brings S. to the sacrifice, 314; the nectar of immortality, 12, 118; how Indra obtained the S. 26, 385 n.; 43, 251 sq., 255 sq. ; juice in spite of Tvashtri, 12, 164 44, xlviii sq., 223; substitutes of sq.; 44, 2 14; prepared for Indra and S.-plants, 26, 421 sq. ; 44, 451 n.; other gods, gods drink S., 12, 176, 48, 120; S. Pavamâna, the udder 80 ; 32, 127, 154, 386, 408 sq., 440; of Ashtakâ, 29, 103 ; called vahni, 44, 216 ; 46, 38 sq., 42 sq., 110, 32, 40; called dânu, liquid, rain," 128, 148, 263, 285, 291, 304, 358; 32, 115; Vishnu saved the S., and strengthening the S., 12, 178, 178 the Maruts sat down around it, 32, n. ; 26, 100-4, 100 n.; clarifying 127, 133-7; Maruts compared to King S. with a strainer, 12, 187; S. drops, 32, 279, 282 sq., 416; mixed with milk and honey, 12, 189; Maruts givers of S. (rain), 32, 400; 32, 444 sq. ; 42, 143, 351; means how much property required to seed (semen), 12, 258, 386 ; 26, 84, drink S. juice, 33, 129; flowing 100, 160, 214, 235, 260; is sacred to through Indra, the S. became a Fathers, 12, 364; 26, 50, 363, 363 tiger, 41, 81, 92 ; Sautrâmanî heals 1. ; vessels do not become impure excess in S.-drinking, 41, 129 n., through S., 14, 164, 169; its place 131 sq., 137, 137 n.; Nirriti visits at sacrifices, 14, 193 sq. and n.; him who does not offer S., 41, 321; purified by Ka, 14, 331; the divine birth (sûti) and S. pressing, 42, 99, food or supreme oblation, 15, 314; 243; the house a receptacle for S., 25, 123; 26, 84, 218 sq. ; 41, 258; 42, 194 sq.; Rudra, lord of the 43, xxi; 44, 54, 217, 222, 242; S. S. plant, 43, 154, 162; King S. and Hôm, 18, 164 n.; persons who offered in the fire, then drunk, 43, are allowed to drink S.-juice (per- 251 sq., 256 sq.; Agni supported form S. sacrifices), 25, 432 sq., 432 by offering S., 43, 274 ; for a year n.; the spirituous liquor, and the S. should be pressed, 43, 320 ; plant, 26, xii sq., xxiv-xxvii; iden- streams of S. flow at a sacrificial tified with Indra's thunderbolt or session, 44, 94, 95; by the buying its barb, 26, xvii sq., 108, 108 m.; of S. plants they sacrifice to S. what is moist in the S. is of S.'s and become S., 44, 140; is cattle, nature, 26, 49; hospitable recep- 44, 217; the Surâ-liquor mixed tion given to King S., 26, 51, 54 with S. and made a form of
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