Refresh the horses and win the prize! May your chariot become a vehicle of good fortune, with press stones as wheels, its armor the sacred vessels, its chassis the soma-vat! From this I will draw the beverage of heroes.
Rig Veda X, 101, 7
Prepare a cowshed where your lords will drink. Stitch a coat of armor strong and broad. Make castles of iron unassailable. Fix well your vessel. Let it not leak!
Rig Veda X, 101, 8
I bend to our cause at this solemn moment, O Gods, your divine and holy attention. May a thousand streams gush forth from this offering like milk from a bountiful pasture-fed cow.
Rig Veda X, 101, 9
We all have various thoughts and plans and diverse are the callings of men. The carpenter seeks out that which is cracked, the physician the ailing, the priest the soma-press. Flow, Soma-juice, for the sake of the Lord!
Rig Veda IX, 112, 1
Regarding this there is the following mantra: There is a bowl which has its mouth below and which bulges at the top. Manifold knowledge has been put into it; seven sages sit on its rim and the organ of speech, which has communication with the Vedas, is the eighth. What is called the bowl which has its mouth below and which bulges at the top is this head of ours, for it is a bowl which has its mouth below and which bulges at the top. When it is said: Manifold knowledge has been put into it, this refers to the organs; these indeed represent manifold knowledge. When it is said: Seven sages sit on its rim, this refers to the organs; they indeed are the sages. The organ of speech, which has communication with the Vedas, is the eighth because the organ of speech is the eighth and communicates with the Vedas.
Yajur Veda, Brihadaranyaka Upanishad II, II-Description of the Prana, 3
