Pavamana Sukta is hymn to Pavamana Soma, a deity associated with a nectar-like juice. Rig Veda consists of ten books (mandalas) of which II-VII are homogenous in character and arrangement, each ascribed to one rishi (seer) or one family of seers. Book I was prefixed and VII-X were affixed. Book IX has a peculiarity of its own as far as the arrangement of hymns is concerned. All the hymns in this mandala are, without exception, addressed to one deity and that is the Pavamana Soma, the clearly flowing soma. The hymns are composed by the same rishis as those of book II-VII. Thus it seems probable that all the hymns addressed to Soma of the rishis of books II-VII were taken out and collected together in one separate book and at the same time arranged with regard to the meter. Thus we see that the first 67 hymns are in gayatri meter, 68-86 in jagati, 87-97 in tristubh and the rest in miscellaneous meters. Soma is the plant whose juice was very dear to men and gods. Soma is identified with