Contents
CONTENTS.
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| INTRODUCTION | |
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| The Building of the Sacred Fire-altar (continued). |
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| First Layer (continued):-- | |
| Prânabhrit (5 sets of 10 each) | |
| Lokamprinâ | |
| Second Layer:-- | |
| Âsvinî (5) | |
| Ritavyâ (2) | |
| Vaisvadevî (5) | |
| Prânabhrit (5) | |
| Apasyâ (5) | |
| Khandasyâ (19) | |
| Lokamprinâ | |
| Third Layer:-- | |
| Svayamâtrinnâ (1) | |
| Disyâ (5) | |
| Visvagyotis (1) | |
| Ritavyâ (4) | |
| Prânabhrit (10) | |
| Khandasyâ (36) | |
| Vâlakhilyâ (14) | |
| Lokamprinâ | |
| Fourth Layer:-- | |
| Stoma (18) | |
| Sprit (10) | |
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| Ritavyâ (2) | |
| Srishti (27) | |
| Lokamprinâ | |
| Fifth Layer:-- | |
| Asapatnâ (5) | |
| Khandasyâ, or Virâg (4 sets of 20 each) | |
| Stomabhâgâ (29) | |
| Nâkasad (5) | |
| Pañkakûdâ (5) | |
| Khandasyâ (10 sets of 3 each) | |
| Gârhapatya hearth (8) | |
| Punaskiti (8) | |
| Ritavyâ (2) | |
| Visvagyotis (1) | |
| Lokamprinâ (1)132 |
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| Vikarnî (1) | |
| Svayamâtrinnâ (1) | |
| Sâmans sung thereon | |
| Scattering of 100 chips of gold on altar | |
| Symbolical meaning of layers | |
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| Satarudriya | |
| Oblations on three enclosing-stones | |
| Avatâna (unstringing) libations | |
| Pratyavaroha (redescending) libations | |
| Sprinkling of altar | |
| Throwing of stone towards Nirriti's quarter | |
| Taking possession of the bricks, as milch cows | |
| Drawing of frog, lotus-flower, and bamboo-shoot across the altar | |
| Sâmans sung round the altar | |
| Day of Preparation for Soma-sacrifice | |
| Libations on Svayamâtrinnâ | |
| Sprinkling of altar with sour curds, honey and ghee | |
| Pravargya | |
| Leading forward of Agni to the Altar | |
| Oblations of ghee on udumbara logs | |
| Lifting of log, setting forth, Apratiratha hymn | |
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| Setting up of variegated stone on Âgnîdhra site | |
| Mounting of Fire-altar | |
| Milk-offering on firebrand | |
| Laying down of, and putting logs on, Âhavanîya fire | |
| Oblations thereon | |
| Installation and Consecration of Agni | |
| Cakes to Vaisvânara and Maruts | |
| Vasor dhârâ, or shower of wealth | |
| Ardhendra and Graha oblations | |
| Yagñakratus | |
| Oblations to Stomas and age-grades | |
| Kalpa (prospering) libations | |
| Vâgaprasavîya libations | |
| Pârtha libations | |
| Consecration of Sacrificer | |
| Râshtrabhrit oblations | |
| Oblations on head of chariot | |
| Yoking of chariot with oblations of air | |
| Ruṅmatî (lightsome) oblations | |
| Arkâsvamedha-samtati oblations | |
| Preparatory Rites of Soma-sacrifice | |
| Building of Dhishnya hearths | |
| Agnîshomîya (animal) sacrifice | |
| Oblations to Regions | |
| Oblations to Divine Quickeners (devasû) | |
| Pasupurodâsa-offering | |
| Sutyâ, or Day of Soma-sacrifice | |
| Agniyoga, or yoking of Fire-altar | |
| Pressing and offering of Soma | |
| Unyoking of Fire-altar | |
| Milk for fast-food | |
| Samishtayagus oblations | |
| Udayanîyâ, and offering of barren cow | |
| Cake to Orderer (Pragâpati and the sun) | |
| Oblations to goddesses Anumati, Râkâ, Sinîvalî and Kuhû | |
| Pasupurodâsa and concluding ceremonies of offering of barren cow | |
| Vaisvakarmana oblations | |
| Payasyâ-offering to Mitra and Varuna | |
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| Rules for a repeated Agnikayana | |
| Propitiatory hymn to Indra and Agni | |
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| The Mystery of the Fire-altar | |
| The triad--Fire-altar, Mahad uktham, and Mahâvrata | |
| Parimâd sâmans | |
| Pragâpati made immortal | |
| Layers of altar partly mortal and partly immortal | |
| Agnikayana includes all sacrifices | |
| Contraction and expansion of wings of altar (bird) | |
| Dimensions of Fire-altar | |
| Sevenfold and hundred and onefold altars | |
| Time for building the altar | |
| Number of Upasad-days | |
| Pragâpati, the Altar and the Year (Time) | |
| The metres in relation to Pragâpati | |
| Dhîra Sâtaparneya and Mahâsâla Gâbâla on the knowledge of Agni | |
| Âruni on the mystery of the Arka | |
| Mystic import of the Yagus | |
| The sacred fire, the Arka, the one Akshara, the great Brahman | |
| Pragâpati, the year, is Agni, and King Soma, the moon | |
| Trayî vidyâ (the Vedas) | |
| Pragâpati, the year, as Death | |
| The Sacrificer is Pragâpati, and immortal | |
| Numbers of bricks in layers | |
| Session of a thousand years | |
| Mystic import of Agni, the Fire-altar | |
| The gold plate and gold man as sun and the man in the sun | |
| Death, the man in the right eye, and the man in the sun | |
| Mind, the ultimate cause of the universe | |
| The Fire-altar, the universe | |
| Kusri Vâgasravasa on the construction of the altar | |
| Asvapati Kaikeya on the nature of Vaisvânara | |
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| The Agni-like, Arka-like, Uktha-like Purusha | |
| The true Brahman, the Self, the golden Purusha | |
| The sacrificial horse (Pragâpati), the universe | |
| Death, the ultimate cause | |
| Death, the Arka and Asvamedha, conquered by knowledge | |
| Corrections. | |
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