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The Goddess with One Hymn: Aranyani and the Rigveda's Only Song to the Forest
Of the Rigveda's 1,028 hymns, exactly one addresses the forest itself as a goddess, and that hymn asks her for nothing. A close reading of RV 10.146 opens onto a real scholarly argument about what the collection's margins can tell us.
The Nadistuti at Close Range: A Verse-by-Verse Reading of Rigveda 10.75
Rigveda 10.75 contains one of the oldest geographical inventories in South Asia, embedded in a hymn of praise to the Sindhu. A close reading of the text: its composer, its two river-lists, the metrical structure, and what makes the hymn methodologically valuable to historians of geography.