A Concise Encyclopaedia of Hinduism
author: Swami Harshananda
edition: 2008, Ramakrishna Math
pages: 2084
ISBN-13: 9788179070574
Topic: Hinduism
Encyclopaedia of Hinduism - Agniksetra
This page describes Agniksetra which is located on page 54 of the first volume in the book: A Concise Encyclopaedia of Hinduism by Swami Harshananda. This book, known as “a concise encyclopaedia of hinduism”, includes a vast amount of topics covering general aspects on Hinduism, but also contains important aspects regarding Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism This page contains an online preview of the full text and summarizes technical terms, as well as information if you want to buy this book.
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You can look up the meaning of the phrase “Agniksetra” according to 4 books dealing with Hinduism. The following list shows a short preview of potential definitions.
Paraskara-grihya-sutra [by Hermann Oldenberg]
(* 3) At the Agni-cayana ceremony furrows are drawn with the plough on the Agni-kshetra with the verses Vaj. Samh. XII, 69-7 2. Afterwards grains of different kinds are sown. See Katyayana XVII, 2, 12; 3, 8; Indische Studien, XIII, 244 seq. Thus in the Shrauta ritual the verse Vaj. Samh. XII, 69 stands in a connection which does not conform to the occasion for which it would be used here. (* 4) 'As above' refers to Sutra 2. On the Sita-yajna, see below, chap. 17....
Read full contents: Adhyaya II, Kandika 13
Satapatha-brahmana [by Julius Eggeling]
(* 2) These are additional three jarfuls poured over the whole Agnikshetra, or site of the altar. (* 3) See p. 200, note 3. (* 4) The sowing of the seed is done after the manner of the watering of the site, viz. so as to finish the sowing of every four furrows with the completion of the muttering of three verses (Vaj. S. XII, 75-86); whereupon the remaining seed is scattered over the whole site with additional three verses (87-89). (* 5) Thus the St....
Read full contents: Kanda VII, adhyaya 2, brahmana 4
Vastu-shastra (1): Canons of Architecture [by D. N. Shukla]
Baudhayana prescribes the construction of the Sararatha-cakracit and the commentator explains how to form at first a small square with 4 bricks in the middle of the Agnikshetra, then to enlarge this square, to one of 16, etc. This method has become known in the West, through Aristotle, as the Pythagorean ‘gnomon ....
Read full contents: (ii) The Site-planning (Vastupada-vinyasa)
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