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Legend
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In stone and bronze
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East India 37
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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.
Legend · 2 tellings · contested
Rudra is left out of the sacrifice
The gods rise to heaven by the sacrifice and leave the lord of cattle behind.