Vedic Mythology c5.s3.t1.3

c5.s3.t1.3

Pṛthivī is spoken of as ‘kindly Mother Earth’, to whom the dead man in a funeral hymn (10, 18^), is exhorted to go. When mentioned with Dyaus, Pṛthivī frequently receives the epithet of ‘mother’ (cp. §§ 11. 44).