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Origin · 2 tellings · contested
Aditi wins the first and the last offering
Why the Soma sacrifice opens and closes with a pot of rice for Aditi: the earth, left out of the rite, confounds it until she is given a share.
Origin · 3 tellings · contested
Vishvakarman, the maker of everything, and the king who gave away the earth
Rigveda 10.81-82 ask who made the world and from what wood; the Brahmanas tell of King Vishvakarman Bhauvana, whose gift of the earth the Earth refused.