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    Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    p. 10, col. 2.
    agnicayana Tatpur. n. (-nam) Arranging the fire-place, a sa-

    crificial ceremony, viz. arranging on a piece of ground of

    merely a fathom's length, which must have been previously

    ploughed, consecrated bricks (see iṣṭakā), so as to make

    them to imitate the shape of a bird. There are five or in

    some case, six such chitis (q. v.) required for receiving the

    sacrificial fire. E. agni (in the sense of the dat.) and cayana.

    Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (2nd ed.)

    p. 5, col. 1.
    agni—caya [Śulb.], m. or agni—cayana, n. or agni—citi, f. or agni—cityā́ [ŚBr.], f. arranging to preparing the sacred or sacrificial fire-place

    Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

    vol. 1, p. 30.
    agnicayana (agni + cayana) Anlegung des heiligen Feuers ŚAT. BR. bei WEBER, Lit. 115. VS. 11 - 18. enthält agnicayanamantraḥ .

    Böhtlingk Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung

    vol. 1, p. 7, col. 1.
    agnicayana n. das Schichten des Feueraltars Ind. St. 13,217.

    Schmidt Nachträge zum Sanskrit-Wörterbuch

    p. 6, col. 3.
    agnicayana auch: Titel eines Werkes, Opp. Cat. 1.

    Vācaspatyam

    p. 56, col. 1.
    agnicayana pu0 agniścīyate ādhīyate anena cikaraṇe lyuṭ
    6 ta0 . agnyādhānasādhane mantrabhede, bhāve lyuṭ 6 ta0 .
    agnyādhāne na0 .

    Renou Vocabulaire du rituel védique

    p. 3.

    Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum

    vol. 1, p. 2, col. 1.
    agnicayana śr. Oppert 1373. 1730. 1731.
    vol. 1, p. 770, col. 1.
    agnicayana Taitt. SB. 87.
    vol. 2, p. 1, col. 1.
    agnicayana Āpast. Cs. 210.

    Indian Epigraphical Glossary

    p. 10.
    agni-cayana (EI 32; IA 19), a sacrificial rite.