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Sinivali

A goddess asked for children: broad-tressed, fair-armed, sister of the gods (Rigveda 2.32.6-8, 10.184.2). The Atharvaveda (7.46) calls her consort of Vishnu; later Vedic texts make her the first day of the new moon.

Sources: Hymns of the Rigveda, tr. R. T. H. Griffith (1896), hymns read for the Vedic layer; Hymns of the Atharva-Veda, tr. R. T. H. Griffith (1895); Vedic Mythology, A. A. Macdonell (1897) · see Sinivali's web

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Hymns of the Rigveda, tr. R. T. H. Griffith (1896), hymns read for the Vedic layer § 2.32.6 Primary text (translation)
Hymns of the Rigveda, tr. R. T. H. Griffith (1896), hymns read for the Vedic layer § 10.184.2 Primary text (translation)
Hymns of the Atharva-Veda, tr. R. T. H. Griffith (1895) § 7.46 Primary text (translation)
Vedic Mythology, A. A. Macdonell (1897) § s43 Scholarly