agnihotra

1 Maintenance of a perpetual or sacred fire. m. (-traḥ)

1 Fire.

2 Ghee.

E. agni and hotra oblation with fire, burnt offerings.

consists in making oblations to fire, of milk (payas), curds

(dadhi), sour gruel (yavāgū), clarified butter (ghṛta), boiled

rice (odana), grain (tanḍula), the juice of the Soma plant,

flesh, sesamum oil (taila) and kidney beans (māṣa), or as

is practised at present, merely of milk, sesamum oil and

sour gruel. There are two kinds, 1. the nitya, perpetual,

‘during the whole life’ or that Agnihotra which is addressed

to Agni every evening at sunset and to Sūrya every morning

at sunrise; and 2. the kāmya, voluntary or the Agnihotra

which occurs only occasionally and which is performed for

the attainment of some specific object, as the Mṛtāgnihotra

or the Māsāgnihotra in the beginning of the Sattra Kun-

ḍapāyināmayana. ² The same as agnyādhāna q. v. E. agni

and hotra, sc. karman ‘an act in which oblations are made

to Agni’.

II. Tatpur. m. (-traḥ) ¹ Fire. ² Havis or clarified butter.

E. agni and hotra.

n. (-traṃ)

1. Maintenance of a perpetual or sacred fire.

m. (-traḥ)
1. Fire.

2. Ghee.

E. agni and hotra oblation with fire, burnt
offerings.

1) m.

a) Feueropfer, sowohl die Handlung selbst als das, was geopfert wird (havis, havya) TRIK. 3, 3, 328. H. an. 4, 237. MED. r. 248 (lies agnihotrogni°).

— b) Feuer (wohl nur das geheiligte Feuer) TRIK. H. an. MED.

— 2) n. Pflege des heiligen Opferfeuers H. 836. — Trotz des häufigen Gebrauches dieses Wortes lässt sich das masc. nicht weiter belegen. In der Veda-Literatur bezeichnet agnihotra n. eine bestimmte liturgische Handlung, welche z. B. AIT. BR. 5, 26-34. besprochen wird: yathā̀ yaśô agnihòtre vâṣaṭkā̀re yathā̀ yaśâḥ AV. 10, 3, 22. àgnìhòtraṃ câ śràddhā câ vaṣaṭkā̀ro vràtaṃ tapâḥ 11, 9, 9. vrātyà uddhṛ̂teṣvàgniṣvadhîśrite 'gnihòtre 'tîthirgṛ̀hānā̀gacchêt 15, 12, 1. ŚAT. BR. 2, 2, 4, 7. 3, 1, 1. 3, 9. fgg. 4, 3, 14. 3, 2, 2, 7. BṚH. ĀR. UP. 4, 3, 1. sa ya idamavidvānagnihotraṃ juhoti CHĀND. UP. 5, 24, 1. 2. yasyāgnihotramadarśamapaurṇamāsamacāturmāsyamanāgrayaṇamatithivarjitaṃ ca MUṆḌ. UP. 1, 2, 3. Dieselbe Bedeutung hat agnihotra wohl auch an den folgenden Stellen: dārāgnihotrasaṃyogaṃ kurute yaḥ M. 3, 171. agnihotraṃ ca juhuyāt 4, 25. na bāliśaḥ . hotā syādagnihotrasya 11, 36. ye 'gnihotramupāsate 11, 42. MBH. 3, 4078. variṣṭhamagnihotrebhyo brāhmaṇasya mukhe hutam M. 7, 84. hutvā caivāgnihotrāṇi R. 1, 36, 9. nāgnihotrāṇyahūyanta 2, 41, 9. In der Bedeutung geheiligtes Feuer erscheint agnihotra an folg. St.: strīṃ dāhayedagnihotreṇa M. 5, 167. dāhayitvāgnihotreṇa striyam YĀJÑ. 1, 89. agnihotreṇa saṃskāramarhastvaṃ na ca lapsyase R. 6, 8, 26. agnihotraṃ samādāya M. 6, 4. āśrameṣvagnihotrāṇi munīnāṃ gṛhītvā prakṣipantyapsu SUND. 2, 14. tāpasā 'ntarhitāḥ sarve sāgnihotrāśramāḥ N. 12, 71. agnihotrātsamutthāya (die Göttin Sāvitrī) SĀV. 1, 8. Dagegen bezeichnet agnihotra in yavāgvāgnihotraṃ juhoti oder yavāgūmagnihotraṃ juhoti P. 2, 3, 3, Sch. den dem Feuer geweihten Gegenstand.

1) Agni opfernd: àbhyahaṃ viśvā̀ḥ pṛtânā̀ yathāsā̂nyèva vidhâmā̀gnihotrā̂ ìdaṃ hàviḥ AV. 6, 97, 1.

— 2) zur Agnihotra-Handlung bestimmt: yasyāgnihotryupāvasṛṣṭā duhyamānopaviśetkā tatra prāyaścittiriti wenn Einem die zum Agnihotra bestimmte und herbeigeführte Kuh unter dem Melken sich niederlegt, wie hat man da zu verfahren? AIT. BR. 5, 27.

2) dogdhrībhiragnihotrībhiḥ Verz. d. Oxf. H. 17,b,3 v. u.

— 1) Feueropfer , Brandopfer und das dabei Geopferte (227,11,12).

— 2) geheiligtes Feuer.

— 1) Adj. Agni opfernd.

— 2) f. ī́ eine zum Feueropfer bestimmte Kuh ŚAT. BR. 11,3,1,1. 5. 2,1. 5,3,2. 5. agnihotrīvatsá m. 12,4,1,11.

qui perpetuo alitur. SU. 2. 14. SA. 1. 8. N. 12. 96.

--Yv. Mack. 7.

Advaitaratnakośaṭīkā Tattvavivecanī.

sacrifice, often mentioned as one of the five sacrificial rites

(mahāyajña) which are the daily duties of a Brāhmaṇa.