Manu in the Rig Veda gets Soma from a faraway mountain and performs the yagna where he offers Soma as a drink to Indra who in turn provides him access to the land of Aryas. This is suggested in a ...

The first time we come across Manu is in the Rig Veda, in the fourth Mandala in the 26th verse. Vamadeva speaks of how a falcon flies high to the heavens, steals the Soma plant from a highly ...

The origins of Soma were very enlightening ... whole which must be older than Sanskrit as the earliest hymns in the Rig Veda have borrowings from Dravidian. For a short guide Try Kamil Zvelebil ...