Adhwara Yajna : yajña of the Path leading to the Divine, esp. the Soma sacrifice.
... Draupadi, a successful & famous cook. But when we find that Agni is said to exist encompassing the Page 10 adhwara Yajna on every side, the expressions already strike us as strange and almost unintelligible in their form if there is no supra-naturalistic suggestion. Adhwara yajna stands in need of explanation (for both words in more modern Sanscrit mean sacrifice), unless indeed we are to take ...
... sacrifices progresses, O Agni. 9) Yea, and thou lodgest throughout his being for the giver and his gods, O God, Agni, a vast and luminous completeness of energy. The Hymn is a hymn of the Adhwara Yajna, the Sacrifice of the Path. Agni, the Divine Will-Force or Power of Consciousness, is the deity. 1) The Gotamas, illumined minds, are to proceed to the path of the sacrifice; let them then give... evidently an old root अध्, no longer formed as a verb, which must have had the same sense as अत्. We have also a lost root अथ् surviving in अथर्यति, to move constantly and अथर्यु, moving. For the Adhwara Yajna see Appendix I. उपप्रयंतो अध्वरं. Coming to the sacrifice of the path with Page 557 the progressive movement which belongs to the sacrifice, प्रयाति अध्वरे. आरे अस्मे च. Sayana ...
... these two verses a succession of symbolic concepts in perfect logical order which express stage by stage the whole process of the divine manifestation in this lower material activity, devaviti in adhwara yajna. आ त्वा विशन्तु आशवः सोमास इन्द्र गिर्वणः । शं ते संतु प्रचेतसे ।।७।। May the fiery Soma-juices enter into thee, O Indra, thou who hast delight in the Word; may they be peace to thee in thy ...
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