Vedic Mythology c5.s3.t4.14

c5.s3.t4.14

The waters are invoked to set in motion the exhilerating wave, the draught of Indra, the sky-born well (10, 30⁹). Soma is the drop which grows in the waters (9, 85¹⁰. 89²). Hence he is the embryo of the waters (9, 97⁴¹; ŚB. 4, 4, 5²¹) or their child, for seven sisters as mothers are around the child, the newly born, the Gandharva of the waters (9, 86³⁶; cp. 10, 13⁵), and the waters are directly called his mothers (9, 61⁴). Soma is also spoken of as a youth among the waters or cows (5, 45⁹; 9, 9⁵).