EVOLUTION OF EPHEDRA AS THE SOMA OF RIGVEDA

In Rigveda Soma is an evergreen plant, with thousand stalks yellow hued bestowing auspicious energy. Resembling yellow fibres of hemp ephedra was rained in Chlnoso Ho-Ma, Yellow-hemp. It was Sanskritized as Soma. Being an energizer-cum-euphoriant its juice was consumed thrice daily. Finally it becam...

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Autor principal: Mahdihassan, S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 1982
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3336717/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22556961
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description In Rigveda Soma is an evergreen plant, with thousand stalks yellow hued bestowing auspicious energy. Resembling yellow fibres of hemp ephedra was rained in Chlnoso Ho-Ma, Yellow-hemp. It was Sanskritized as Soma. Being an energizer-cum-euphoriant its juice was consumed thrice daily. Finally it became a drug of longevity, rejuvenation and resurrection even god Soma. As drug it was substituted by Rasayana promisiig rejuvenation but also salvation. Soma with Water and Fire constitutes the proto-cosmology of Rigveda.
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spelling pubmed-33367172012-04-27 EVOLUTION OF EPHEDRA AS THE SOMA OF RIGVEDA Mahdihassan, S. Anc Sci Life Original Article In Rigveda Soma is an evergreen plant, with thousand stalks yellow hued bestowing auspicious energy. Resembling yellow fibres of hemp ephedra was rained in Chlnoso Ho-Ma, Yellow-hemp. It was Sanskritized as Soma. Being an energizer-cum-euphoriant its juice was consumed thrice daily. Finally it became a drug of longevity, rejuvenation and resurrection even god Soma. As drug it was substituted by Rasayana promisiig rejuvenation but also salvation. Soma with Water and Fire constitutes the proto-cosmology of Rigveda. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 1982 /pmc/articles/PMC3336717/ /pubmed/22556961 Text en Copyright: © Ancient Science of Life http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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EVOLUTION OF EPHEDRA AS THE SOMA OF RIGVEDA
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title_fullStr EVOLUTION OF EPHEDRA AS THE SOMA OF RIGVEDA
title_full_unstemmed EVOLUTION OF EPHEDRA AS THE SOMA OF RIGVEDA
title_short EVOLUTION OF EPHEDRA AS THE SOMA OF RIGVEDA
title_sort evolution of ephedra as the soma of rigveda
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22556961
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