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Āhnikācāratattva manuscript preview University of Pennsylvania

1700–1850

Āhnikācāratattva

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Āhnikācāratattva is a part of a larger work on Dharmaśāstra called the Smṛtitattva. The text is a manual for various domestic purification rituals. It aims to integra...

Āgrayaṇamañjūṣā manuscript preview University of Pennsylvania

1802 Śaka Saṃvat (1880 CE)

Āgrayaṇamañjūṣā

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Āgrayaṇamañjūṣā is a manual for performing Vedic Agniṣṭoma rituals which involves offering of soma to various deities. The last part of the text called Āgrayaṇanirn...

Agnivisarjanamantra manuscript preview University of Pennsylvania

1700–1850

Agnivisarjanamantra

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Agnivisarjanamantra is a manual for performing post-Vedic fire rituals which are initiated by chanting incantations and mantras. This text is used in Visarjanas (last rit...

Agnisūkta manuscript preview University of Pennsylvania

1700–1850

Agnisūkta

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Agnisūkta is a sūkta of the Ṛgveda dedicated to Agni the deity of fire. The Ṛgveda consists of ten maṇdalas which contain many sūktas each sūkta is dedicated to a d...

Agniṣṭoma prayoga manuscript preview University of Pennsylvania

1700–1850

Agniṣṭoma prayoga

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Agniṣṭoma prayoga is a manual for performing Vedic Agniṣṭoma ritual which involves offering of soma to various deities. The soma is considered as a sacred and powerfu...

Agniṣṭomamaitrāvaruṇaprayoga manuscript preview University of Pennsylvania

1722 Śaka Saṃvat, 1857 Vikrama Saṃvat (1800 CE).

Agniṣṭomamaitrāvaruṇaprayoga

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Agniṣṭomamaitrāvaruṇaprayoga is a manual for performing Vedic Agniṣṭoma sacrificial ritual which involves offering of soma to various deities. Maitrāvaruṇa hotṛ...

Agnisthāpanavidhi manuscript preview University of Pennsylvania

1782 Śaka Saṃvat(1860 CE), 1912 Vikram Saṃvat (1855 CE)

Agnisthāpanavidhi

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Agnisthāpanavidhi is a priest manual for construction and installation of fires to be used for various Vedic rituals from deciding the location of fire to starting it. T...

Agnihotrahomaprayoga manuscript preview University of Pennsylvania

1871 Vikrama Saṃvat (1814 CE)

Agnihotrahomaprayoga

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Agnihotrahomaprayoga is a priest manual for performing Agnihotra sacrificial rituals. It is a vedic fire ritual performed during sunrise and sunset which involves various...