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Seven Verses That Smell: The Rigveda's Missing Sense
The most widely chanted verse of the Rigveda calls a god sweet smelling. It is one of only seven verses in the entire collection that use a word for smell at all, and the other six are stranger than the silence around them.
A Hundred Autumns: The Rigveda's Argument Against Dying
The Rigveda's word for immortality is a negative: a-mṛta, not-dead. Even the gods had to earn it, some of them by doing excellent metalwork. And the poets who coined the word spent almost no time asking for heaven. They asked, over and over, for a hundred more autumns of this.