Camakam, anuvāka 6 — every god, and Indra with each
The popular claimAgni and Indra for me. Soma and Indra for me. Twenty gods, and Indra beside every one.
The sixth anuvāka is the Camakam's roll of the gods, and it has a rule: every god is named with Indra. Agniś ca ma indraś ca me — Agni for me and Indra for me — and so on through twenty, Indra repeated each time.
The list
Agniś ca ma indraś ca me. — Agni, and Indra. The fire first, as always.
Somaś ca ma indraś ca me. — Soma, and Indra. The drink and the drinker.
Savitā ca ma indraś ca me. — Savitṛ, and Indra. The impeller, the sun of the Gāyatrī.
Sarasvatī ca ma indraś ca me. — Sarasvatī, and Indra. The river and the speech.
Pūṣā ca ma indraś ca me. — Pūṣan, and Indra. The guardian of paths and cattle.
Bṛhaspatiś ca ma indraś ca me. — Bṛhaspati, and Indra. The lord of prayer, the priest of the gods.
Mitraś ca ma indraś ca me. — Mitra, and Indra. The contract.
Varuṇaś ca ma indraś ca me. — Varuṇa, and Indra. The oath, the keeper of ṛta — named with the god who took his throne.
Tvaṣṭā ca ma indraś ca me. — Tvaṣṭṛ, and Indra. The craftsman of the gods, who made Indra's thunderbolt — and whose son Indra killed.
Dhātā ca ma indraś ca me. — Dhātṛ, and Indra. The establisher, the one who sets things in place.
Viṣṇuś ca ma indraś ca me. — Viṣṇu, and Indra. The strider, Indra's companion in the Vṛtra fight.
Aśvinau ca ma indraś ca me. — The Aśvins, and Indra. The twin physicians.
Marutaś ca ma indraś ca me. — The Maruts, and Indra. The storm-gods, Rudra's sons, Indra's troop.
Viśve ca me devā indraś ca me. — The All-Gods, and Indra. Viśve devāḥ — the gods as a whole, and Indra still named apart from them.
Pṛthivī ca ma indraś ca me. — Earth, and Indra.
Antarikṣaṁ ca ma indraś ca me. — The mid-air, and Indra.
Dyauś ca ma indraś ca me. — Sky, and Indra. The three worlds, each with Indra.
Diśaś ca ma indraś ca me. — The directions, and Indra.
Mūrdhā ca ma indraś ca me. — The summit, and Indra. Mūrdhan — the head, the topmost point; Sāyaṇa: the highest heaven, or the zenith.
Prajāpatiś ca ma indraś ca me. — Prajāpati, and Indra. The lord of creatures, the Brāhmaṇas' creator — and even he is paired with Indra.
Why Indra with each
The Aitareya Brāhmaṇa says that Indra has a share in every offering, because he is the king of the gods and the king takes a portion of everything. Sāyaṇa's reading of this anuvāka follows that: Indra is named with each deity so that no offering is made without him. The plainer historical reading is that in the Yajurveda's period Indra was the god of the sacrificing class — the warrior's god, the one who drank the soma — and a petition that named the gods had to name him at every step or risk his displeasure. Either way the text is unambiguous about which god it trusts most. It is not Rudra, whose Namakam has just been chanted three hundred bows long. It is Indra, twenty times.
What that shows
The Rudram is a Śaiva liturgy today. The Camakam inside it is a Vedic sacrificer's petition, and its pantheon is the Ṛgveda's: Agni, Soma, Indra, Varuṇa, Viṣṇu as a companion, Prajāpati at the end, Rudra not named at all in this section. A listener at an abhiṣeka who thinks the Camakam is addressed to Śiva should know that its sixth anuvāka is addressed to everyone else, and to Indra beside each.
What this page does not say
It does not resolve why Rudra is absent from this list, which the commentators explain variously and the text does not explain. It opens the twenty pairs so that the indraś ca me a listener hears twenty times is heard as what it is: the Yajurveda's king of the gods, asked for with every one of his subjects.
Source — Taittiriya Samhita 4.7.6 (Camakam, sixth anuvaka), Krishna Yajurveda; Sayana's bhashya on the Taittiriya; Bhattabhaskara's commentary on the Camakam; Aitareya Brahmana on Indra's share in every offering
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