Hindu Medicine c11.1

c11.1

in the form of lightning; 3. the fire inhabiting the vegetable realm (trees) which is generated from wood when fire is stirred by means of a wooden board and stick; 4. the animal fire inhabiting warm-blooded beings, especially men, which bestows bodily warmth, complexion and color; 5. the domestic fire on the house-altar of every Aryan homestead, tended by the father of the family as the ever-present tutelary deity of the household; from this domestic fire are taken the two forms of sacrificial fire for the oblations to the gods, and the offerings to the forces of the realm of death and destruction.