Samudra
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Samudra is a Sanskrit term literally meaning the "gathering together of waters". It refers to an ocean, sea or confluence.
"Indra killed the dragon, opened outlets for the waters splitting the breasts of mountains then … flowing directly to the ocean down rushed the waters."
"To [Indra] go praises… as to the samudra [go] in company those desiring gain."
"All offerings go to Agni like the seven swift-ones flowing to the ocean."
"For three nights and three days, o Asvins, you carried Bhujyu… to the distant dry-shore of the watery ocean."
"While some flow together, others flow towards; the rivers fill the common receptacle’."
"Whatever medicinal balm is in the Indus and Asikni rivers… in the oceans … on the mountains."
"The samudra, the river Indus, the region/space, the midair/sky, the deity Aja Ekapaad (=the one-footed Unborn or Goat), the thunder, the flood (should listen)."
"This stream Sarasvatī with fostering current comes forth, our sure defence, our fort of iron. As on a car, the flood flows on, surpassing in majesty and might all other waters. Pure in her course from mountains to the ocean, alone of streams Sarasvatī hath listened. Thinking of wealth and the great world of creatures, she poured for Nahuṣa her milk and fatness."