ONE/TEN : Polymorphic truth and sunlight having disease curing properties is mentioned. A commentary mentions story of King Harishchandra. He cheated on his god promise to sacrifice his first son to Indra God. He kept his son till adulthood, this led to his misery and endured god’s wrath. Most famous second line of Rig,1,164,46. God is one but manifests as Indra, Agni, Surya, Varun, etc implying polymorphic truth.
TWO/TEN : Chariot of Indra is said to fathom any depths. Some verses makes it clear that father of Marudgans is Rudra god who is surely different from Supreme diety Shiva. No Contemporary gods are mentioned in Vedas. Reason of reiterating the same power in different Gods name(BrahmaSutra,1,3,1) in different chronology of any culture. Mandala’s verse says about a bird which never drinks surface water but only rain water, it will die thirsty but not drink other water. Verse says that when it calls in the forest its calling gives confidence to boatman to cross this mighty river of maya.
THREE/TEN : Making son of Daughter as legal heir and daughters not inheriting fathers inheritance is mentioned here. This mandal is also called Vashvamitra mandal as rigved(3,62,10) is the Gayatri mantra.
FOUR/TEN : Also known as Vamdev mandal. Story of Indra who makes one of his disciple look just like him and also let him sit in his throne and also roam around with his wife Suchi. This proves that a god can do anything for his devotees.
FIVE/TEN : famous as Atraiya madal. He was one of seven sons of Brahma who was born from eyes of the creator. Atraiya with his wife Ansuya procreated Bharatvarsha which is present now-a-days. Brahma in this real sense is our first historian who later gained the status of god.
SIX/TEN : dedicated by Bharadwaj rishi. The verses which converted a normal weapon to a divine weapon of mass destruction is in this mandala. Goddess of knowledge is emphasised in verse recitation as a story goes Indra could not receive his due prayer and instead another devil got the fruits of prayer due to slight mispronunciation. Another story is mentioned where Indra gives a boon to his devotee to live another hundred years. He keeps reciting Saraswati mantras. again Indra is pleased and he gives him another hundred years of life, he again endures to earn knowledge. Again Indra is pleased and gives one more hundred years. Next when he asks for same Indra god picks up sand from nearby and puts into his devotee palms and says you have known only this much in these years equal to the dirt. This rishi lived for many years and invented Ayurveda.
Remaining four mandalas in next post.