Trade Size Paperback, Condition is Very Good, Mild Wear to book. Book pages clean. No markings in book. Binding is tight. ***The ninth Mandala of the Rigveda, also called the Soma Mandala has 114 hymns, entirely devoted to Soma Pavama-na, *Purifying Soma*, the sacred potion of the Vedic religion. Similar to RV 8, it cannot be dated within the relative chronology of the Rigveda as a whole; dealing with the Soma cult, a practice reaching back into Proto-Indo-Iranian times (late 3rd millennium BC), some of its hymns may contain the very oldest parts of the Rigveda, while other hymns may be rat... View More...
