Mandala 5

The fifth Mandala of the Rigveda has 87 hymns. Most hymns in this book are attributed to the Atri family. The mandala is one of the "family books", the oldest core of the Rigveda, which were composed in early vedic period. The hymns are dedicated mainly to Agni and Indra, the Visvadevas, the Maruts, the twin-deity Mitra-Varuna and the Asvins.

Quotes

• Agni born shone out slaying the Dasyus, the darkness by the Light; he found the Cows, the Waters, Swar.
  • 14, 4, as translated by Sri Aurobindo, "The Secret of the Veda", Arya, no. 2 (15 August 1915), p. 618

• Worship thou Rudra for his great good favour: adore the Asura, God, with salutations.
  • Rigveda, V, 42, 1, as translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1870)
  • Variant translations:
    • With salutations the deva asura [Rudra] adore.
    • Translated by Kazanas, N. D. (2001). Indo-European deities and the Rgveda. Journal of Indoeuropean Studies, 29(3/4), 257-294.

• O Maruts, you raise up rain from the samudra [and] cause-to-rain.
  • 55, 5, as quoted by N. Kazanas, Indo-Aryan Origins and other Vedic Issues (2009), Ch. 5: Samudra in the Rgveda

• As the wind, as the wood, as the sea stirs.
  • 78, 8, as quoted by N. Kazanas, Indo-Aryan Origins and other Vedic Issues (2009), Ch. 5: Samudra in the Rgveda

• That is the great magic power of this divine greatest seer, Varuna, that no one can challenge, when the diverse flowing streams cannot fill the one ocean with their water.
  • 85, 6, as quoted by David Frawley, Gods, Sages, and Kings: Vedic Secrets of Ancient Civilization (1991), p. 59

• And let the patrons of our rites subdue all regions of the earth.
  • 10, 6, as translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1870)

Quotes about Mandala 5

• The vocabulary of the Kaṇva maṇḍala [8] often coincides with that of the Atri maṇḍala [5] when it shows no correspondence with that of other family books. This subject deserves special treatment.
  • HOPKINS 1896a: Prāgāthikāni. Hopkins, Edward W. pp. 23-92 in JAOS (Journal of the American Oriental Society), Vol. 17. p. 29

• We need not rely exclusively on the Anukramaṇī to affirm that there were important interactions between the priestly groups represented in Books 1, 5 and 8. As Oldenberg has shown, evidence from the hymns themselves supports this conclusion.
  • PROFERES 1999: The Formation of Vedic Liturgies. Proferes, Theodore. Harvard Thesis, April 1999. page 75

• The connections of Book 5 with Books 1 and 8 and not with the other clan books (2-4, 6-7) is interesting, since it seems to belong to the core RV collection.
  • PROFERES 2003: Remarks on the Transition from Rgvedic Composition to Srauta Compilation. Proferes, Theodore. In "Indo-Iranian Language and Peoples", Oxford University Press, Proceedings of the British Academy. page 16, fn.