Ahavaniya, Āhavanīya: 16 definitions
Introduction:
Ahavaniya means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Buddhism, Pali, the history of ancient India. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
In Hinduism
Shilpashastra (iconography)
Āhavanīya (आहवनीय):—In Hindu iconology (śilpaśāstra), this represents one of the three faces of Agni. The three faces symoblize the three Vedic fires. Agni is one of the most important Vedic gods and represents divine illumination
Shilpashastra (शिल्पशास्त्र, śilpaśāstra) represents the ancient Indian science (shastra) of creative arts (shilpa) such as sculpture, iconography and painting. Closely related to Vastushastra (architecture), they often share the same literature.
Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
Āhavanīya (आहवनीय).—An agni. (Mahābhārata, Ādi Parva, Chapter 74, Verse 67).
Āhavanīya (आहवनीय).—(Havyavāhana)—a sacred fire.*
- * Brahmāṇḍa-purāṇa III. 72. 25; Vāyu-purāṇa 29. 11; 30. 107; 97. 25; 106. 41.
The Purana (पुराण, purāṇas) refers to Sanskrit literature preserving ancient India’s vast cultural history, including historical legends, religious ceremonies, various arts and sciences. The eighteen mahapuranas total over 400,000 shlokas (metrical couplets) and date to at least several centuries BCE.
General definition (in Hinduism)
Āhavanīya (आहवनीय):—One of the three types of fire altar used in Vedic rituals of sacrifice, or yajñas. The āhavanīya altar has a square shape. The four sides of this square represent the four major directions of space: north, south, east, and west. The āhavanīya altar is located in the eastern portion of the larger Vedic sacrificial arena. Specifications for the construction, location, and use of the āhavanīya are found in the Yajur-veda.
India history and geography
Āhavanīya.—(EI 32), the sacred fire. Note: āhavanīya is defined in the “Indian epigraphical glossary” as it can be found on ancient inscriptions commonly written in Sanskrit, Prakrit or Dravidian languages.
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Languages of India and abroad
Sanskrit dictionary
Āhavanīya (आहवनीय).—pot. p. To be offered as an oblation.
-yaḥ A consecrated fire taken from the house-holder's perpetual fire, one of the three fires (i. e. the eastern) burning at a sacrifice; गार्हपत्यादाहवनीयं ज्वलन्तमुद्धरेत् । पिता वा एषोऽग्नीनां यदक्षिणः पुत्रो गार्हपत्यः पौत्र आहवनीयः (gārhapatyādāhavanīyaṃ jvalantamuddharet | pitā vā eṣo'gnīnāṃ yadakṣiṇaḥ putro gārhapatyaḥ pautra āhavanīyaḥ) Āśval.; see also अग्नित्रेता (agnitretā) under अग्नि (agni). अथ हैनमाहवनीयोऽनुशशास (atha hainamāhavanīyo'nuśaśāsa) Chān. Up.4.13.1.
Āhavanīya (आहवनीय).—adj. (= Pali id., compare Vism. i.220.6; more usually Pali āhuneyya; meaning probably influenced by Pali pāhuneyya, see s.v. prāhavanīya; both these forms in havanīya probably due to popular [etymology], tho found in Pali and [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit]), worthy of receiving offerings (respectful gifts): Mahāvyutpatti 1772 (in section named mānanā-paryāyāḥ); Avadāna-śataka i.193.10 °yāni tāni kulāni yeṣu kuleṣu mātāpitarau samyaṅ mānyete.
Ahavanīya (अहवनीय).—mfn.
(-yaḥ-yā-yaṃ) 1. Not to be offered, not fit or proper to be sacrificed. E. a neg. havanīya to be offered.
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Āhavanīya (आहवनीय).—mfn.
(-yaḥ-yā-yaṃ) To be offered as an oblation. m.
(-yaḥ) A consecrated fire taken from the house-holder’s perpetual fire, and prepared for receiving oblations. E. āṅ before hu to offer ablations, and anīyar aff.
Āhavanīya (आहवनीय).—(±agni) [masculine] sacrificial fire, [especially] the eastern of the three [substantive] fires.
1) Āhavanīya (आहवनीय):—[=ā-havanīya] [from ā-hu] mfn. to be offered as an oblation
2) [from ā-havanīya > ā-hu] m. ([scilicet] agni) consecrated fire taken from the householder’s perpetual fire and prepared for receiving oblations
3) [v.s. ...] especially the eastern of the three fires burning at a sacrifice, [Atharva-veda; Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa; Kātyāyana-śrauta-sūtra; Āśvalāyana-śrauta-sūtra; Chāndogya-upaniṣad etc.]
Āhavanīya (आहवनीय):—[ā-havanīya] (yaḥ) 1. m. A consecrated fire. a. Fit to be offered.
Āhavanīya (आहवनीय):—(von āhavana) adj. (in Verbindung mit agni) oder m. (mit Ergänzung von agni) Opferfeuer (das die Opfergabe zu empfangen hat); so heisst im Besondern das östliche der drei Feuer des üblichen Opferheerdes (vedi) [Amarakoṣa 2, 7, 19.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 826.] [Atharvavedasaṃhitā 8, 10, 3. 9, 6, 30. 15, 6, 5.] ā.a.a.īye vaiśvāna.aṃ (dvādaśakapālaṃ) adhiśrayati.gārhapatye māru.am (saptakapālam) [Taittirīyasaṃhitā 2, 2, 5, 6. 6, 3, 21.] agnimāhavanīyamupasthāpayāṃ cakāra [Aitareyabrāhmaṇa 7, 17.] yasya gārhapatyāhavanīyau mithaḥ saṃsṛjyātām 6. āhutiṃ vāhavanīye juhuyāt [8. 5. 12.] pūrveṇaiva gārhapatyamantareṇāhavanīyaṃ caiti [The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 1, 9, 2, 4.] astaṃ yannāditya āhavanīyaṃ praviśati [2, 3, 4, 24. 4, 5, 7, 6. 6, 8, 5. 11, 5, 3, 8.] idhmātsamidhamādhāyāhavanīyaṃ kalpayati [Kātyāyana’s Śrautasūtrāṇi 2, 7, 29. 4, 13, 16.] dakṣiṇāgnirāhavanīyavat [5, 8, 6. 16, 4, 31.] gārhapatyādāhavanīyaṃ jvalantamuddharet pitā vā eṣo gnīnāṃ yaddakṣiṇaḥ putro gārhapatyaḥ pautra āhavanīyaḥ [Aśvalāyana’s Śrautasūtrāni 2, 2. 4.] [Chāndogyopaniṣad 2, 24, 11. 4, 13, 1.] [Praśnopaniṣad 4, 3.] pitā vai gārhapatyo gnirmātāgnirdakṣiṇaḥ smṛtaḥ . gururāhavanīyastu sāgnitretā garīyasī .. [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 2, 231.] [Mahābhārata 1, 3053. 3, 14285.] āhavanīyāgāra [The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 1, 1, 1, 11.]
Āhavanīya (आहवनीय):—Adj. in Verbindung mit āgni oder m. (mit Ergänzung von āgni Opferfeuer , insbes. das östliche der drei Feuer in der Vedi. āhavanīyāgāra
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
Kannada-English dictionary
Āhavanīya (ಆಹವನೀಯ):—[adjective] fit for offering as an oblation in a sacrifice.
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Āhavanīya (ಆಹವನೀಯ):—[noun] the consecrated fire, one of the three kinds, kept buring on the eastern side in a sacrifice.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Pali-English dictionary
āhavanīya (အာဟဝနီယ) [(ti) (တိ)]—
[(1) ā+hu+anīya. (2) āhavana+īya]
[(၁) အာ+ဟု+အနီယ။ (၂) အာဟဝန+ဤယ]
[Pali to Burmese]
āhavanīya—
(Burmese text): [(၁) အာ+ဟု+အနီယ။ (၂) အာဟဝန+ဤယ]
(က) အဝေးမှပင်လာ၍ အားလုံးသော ပစ္စည်း ဥစ္စာကို ပေးလှူပူဇော်အပ်ရာ ဖြစ်သော၊ ပုဂ္ဂိုလ် (အရိယာသံဃာ)။ (ခ) သိကြားမင်း စသော ပုဂ္ဂိုလ်တို့ ပေးလှူပူဇော်အပ်သော ပစ္စည်းဝတ္ထုကိုပင် ခံယူထိုက်သော၊ ပုဂ္ဂိုလ် (အရိယာသံဃာ)။ (ဂ) ပေးလှူ ပူဇော်ဖွယ်ပစ္စည်းဝတ္ထုကို ခံယးထိုက်သော၊ မီး (မိဘဟူသောမီး)။ အာဟုနေယျဂ္ဂိ-လည်းကြည့်။
(Auto-Translation): (1) Ahuhaniya. (2) Ahawana. (a) The person (revered monk) who, even from afar, comes to present and honor all objects and offerings. (b) The person (revered monk) who is worthy of receiving the offerings and items presented by individuals such as the king. (c) The fire (the fire referred to as mother) that is worthy of receiving the offerings and items. Please also look into the Ahuhaniya.
Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.
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