Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India, their Religion and Institutions v5.c49.24

v5.c49.24

The plant is said to have been brought by a falcon, i. 80, 2 (*somaḥ śyenābhṛitaḥ*); iii. 43, 7 (*ā yaṁ te* [Indrāya] *śyenaḥ uśate jabhāra*); viii. 71, 9; from the sky, iv. 26, 6 (*ṛijīpī śyeno dadamāno aṁśum parāvataḥ śakuno mandram madam | somam bharad dādṛihāno devavān divo amushṇād uttarād ādāya*); viii. 84, 3; by a well-winged bird, or Suparṇa, to Indra, viii. 89, 8 (*divaṁ suparṇo gatvāya somaṁ vajriṇe ābharat*); or from a mountain, i. 93, 6 (*amathnād anyam (somam) pari śyeno adreḥ*), where it had been placed by Varuṇa, v. 85, 2 (*divi sūryam adadhāt somam adrau*). In iii. 48, 2; v. 43, 4; ix. 18, 1; ix. 62, 4; ix. 85, 10; ix. 98, 9, it is called *girishṭhā* (found on a mountain). In another place, ix. 113, 3, it is declared to have been brought by the daughter of the sun from the place where it had been nourished by Parjanya, the rain-god, when the Gandharvas took it, and infused into it sap (*Parjanya-vṛiddham mahisham taṁ sūryasya duhitā 'bharat | taṁ gandharvāḥ praty agṛibhnan taṁ some rasam ādadhuḥ*). In ix. 82, 3, as we have seen above, p. 142, Parjanya is said to be the father of Soma; and in A.V. xix. 6, 16, the god is said to have sprung from Purusha (*rājñaḥ Somasya . . . . jātasya Purushād adhi*).