Citations:Soma

English citations of Soma

• 1900 — Arthur Anthony Macdonell, A History of Sanskrit Literature, ch ii, p. 29

  The first is that of the four Vedas, the outcome of a creative and poetic age, in which hymns and prayers were composed chiefly to accompany the pressing and offering of the Soma juice or the oblation of melted butter (ghṛita) to the gods.