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The House the Rigveda Never Describes
A night charm in Mandala 7 shuts a household's eyes 'as we shut this house' and then says nothing about the house. Across 10,500 verses the Rigveda names beds, doors and dogs but almost never a wall, a roof or a brick. What that silence is actually evidence of.