Narada
Ṛgvedic hymns ascribed to Nārada (8.13; 9.104–105)
Traditional attribution
Ṛgvedic hymns ascribed to Nārada (8.13; 9.104–105)
ऋग्वेद ८.१३; ९.१०४–१०५
Hymn 8.13 is a praise of Indra, drinker of soma, in the manner of the poets of the Kāṇva family; the brief hymns 9.104 and 9.105 invite the singers to celebrate the purified soma. They are the oldest texts associated with Nārada’s name, though the ascription, fixed in later indexes, does not allow the poet to be identified with the sage of the epic.
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Authorship note
The Anukramaṇī (traditional index of authors) ascribes hymn 8.13 to Nārada Kāṇva and hymns 9.104 and 9.105 to Parvata and Nārada. A traditional ascription, later than the hymns.
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English
Narada
The Rigveda: The Earliest Religious Poetry of India
The Conscious LibraryThe Rigveda: The Earliest Religious Poetry of India
Oxford University Press, 2014
Translation: Stephanie W. Jamison y Joel P. Brereton
Other works by Narada
- Nārada Bhakti Sūtra (Nārada’s Aphorisms on Devotion) · 1150
- Nārada Smṛti (Nārada’s Treatise on Law) · 500
- Nārada Purāṇa (Nāradīya Purāṇa) · 1000
- Bṛhannāradīya Purāṇa · 850
- Nārada Pañcarātra (Jñānāmṛtasāra Saṃhitā)
- Nāradīya Śikṣā
- Saṅgītamakaranda
- Nārada’s stanzas on the son (Aitareya Brāhmaṇa VII.13) · 700
- Nārada’s abridged Rāmāyaṇa (Rāmāyaṇa I.1) · 100
- Nārada’s questionnaire on government (Mahābhārata, Sabhāparvan 5)
- Nāradaparivrājaka Upaniṣad
Sources
- Jamison, Stephanie W. y Joel P. Brereton (trads.). The Rigveda: The Earliest Religious Poetry of India. 3 vols. Nueva York: Oxford University Press, 2014. Introducciones a RV 8.13 y 9.104–105.
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