A Concise Encyclopaedia of Hinduism
author: Swami Harshananda
edition: 2008, Ramakrishna Math
pages: 2084
ISBN-13: 9788179070574
Topic: Hinduism
Encyclopaedia of Hinduism - Ahina
This page describes Ahina which is located on page 62 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 “Ahina” according to 18 books dealing with Hinduism. The following list shows a short preview of potential definitions.
The Sacrifices of Rajasuya, Vajapeya and Ashvamedha (study) [by Aparna Dhar]
[Full title: A Brief note on the sacrifices of the Shatapatha Brahmana (7): Dvadashaha] Dvadashaha is the model for both Ahina and Satra type of sacrifice. It is similar to Ahina type of sacrifice and also from the aspects of number of priests and details of ceremony it is also uniform to the Satra acrifice. Like Satra sacrifice, Dvadashaha also begins and ends with an atiratra ritual....
Read full contents: Summary of the Dvadashaha sacrifice
Manusmriti with the Commentary of Medhatithi [by Ganganatha Jha]
As regards the Ahina on the other hand, there is no such prohibition as that—‘one should not undertake an act that leads to heaven.’” In answer to this, some people offer the following explanation:—It having been declared (11.33) that ‘speech is the Brahmana’s weapon,’ the encompassing of the death of an enemy by means of malevolent rites, becomes sanctioned by it. So that the Ahina and the Malevolent Rite stand upon the same footing....
Read full contents: Verse 11.197
Asvalayana-grihya-sutra [by Hermann Oldenberg]
But I cannot help thinking that the two words should be separated, so that we should have to translate, 'or at an Ahina, or for a person that gives small sacrificial fee.' Thus the Brahmana quoted by Apastamba (see the commentary on the Pancavimsha Brahmana, vol. i, p. 6, ed. Bibl. Indica) gives the following questions which the Ritvij to be chosen should ask, 'Is it no Ahina sacrifice? Is the Ritvij office not abandoned by others? Is the sacrificial fee plentiful?'...
Read full contents: Adhyaya I, Kandika 23
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