1. god of the oblation, fire

2. essential element of sacrafice

Asvins

asat

1. "fourth veda"

2. have blagic magic spells about after life

- text of Sanskrit hymns dedicated to the gods

-  the most anceient of the other vedic texts

-"order of the course of things"

- foundation and precusor to concept of dharma 

- refers to gene of literature

- second stage of Vedic corpus where the sacrificial rules are set out and significane of sacrafice are explained 

giants that fought against the Gods because of jealousy toward the Devas,

childeren of Diti and Kashyapa

-husband to Prthivi

-ancient sky god 

-people who speak the language on nepal and srilanka and india

-this naem is used to distingish these langauges fromt hose that do not have genetic connection 

peopel who spoke languages related to sanskrit greek celtic german

- culture spread itseld throughout much of the eurasian landmass by the historical period.

more curent languages that were similar of the people of Iran and India

-present "New Persian" and Hindi are examples

-"god of weather and war"

-cheif god in Rgveda

-one of four castes

-ruling or military class

-sacred vedic hymn and spell 

-has two meanings-1. a magical utterance and 2. soudns that contain spiritual energy

-class of divintiesassociated with Indra

particulatiyl associated with storms

Mitra

- a very minor deiety

-dervied from the indo iranian period associated with varuna

sudra

-one of the four aryahn classes

-the lowest class

-earth and mother goddess

-legacy of indo-european culture

- hindu deity presiding over procreation

-lord of creatures in Brahmansa paticularly