Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c8.33

c8.33

**Its Requisites.** The object of *yajana* or worship is called *Yajata* in Vedic language. These *Yajatas* were formless manifestations of the Supreme Being or Brahma for whose worship there was no need of any material temple or shrine. The worshippers were called *Yajamānas*. They performed their worship or *yajña* by means of meditation or *manana* with the aid of the words called *Mantras*. Thus the utterance of the Mantra was essential to the performance of this kind of worship or *yajña* by which the *Yajata* or the deity was approached and invoked by mortals.