India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c11.s2.14

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c11.s2.14

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c11.s2.14

NAMES OF FIRES (*AGNYĀKHYĀ*, III.2.92)—*Agni* as an agent carrying the offering of the sacrificer to the gods is spoken of as *havyavāhana* (III.2.66), and to the manes as *kavyavāhana* (III.2.65). In these two capacities it receives the offerings with the formula *Svāhā* and *Svadhā*, respectively (II.3.16). The former was called *Chitya agni* (III.1.132) used for performing the Śrauta sacrifices. Of the Three Śrauta Fires (*śrautāgnayaḥ*), mention is made of Gārhapatya (IV.4.90), and of the Dakshiṇāgni under the special name of *Ānāyya* which was brought from the Household Fire and not retained (*Ānāyyo' nitye*, III.1.127; with *Bhāshya* II.89).

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit