Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c4.76

v2.c4.76

Puro-’nuvākyā (‘introductory verse to be recited’) is the technical term for the address to a god inviting him to partake of the offering; it was followed by the Yājyā, which accompanied the actual oblation.¹ Such addresses are not unknown, but are rare, according to Oldenberg,² in the Rigveda; subsequently they are regular, the word itself occurring in the later Saṃhitās³ and the Brāhmaṇas.⁴