maha yagna
महायज्ञ mahāyajñaThe great sacrifices enjoined daily on the householder, traditionally five (pancha mahayajna): to the gods (deva), to the seers through study, to the ancestors (pitri), to other living beings (bhuta), and to fellow humans as guests (atithi). The Grihya Sutras frame ordinary life as a continual round of giving.
Where this term appears
- The Court Treatise
The figure who stepped out of the Maha Yagna fire emerged with weapons in her hands, but she did not enter the battle until those weapons had themselves become commanders.
- The Demon in the Fire Treatise
They performed a great sacrificial fire. They called it the Maha Yagna , the Great Sacrifice.
- The Fire She Came From Treatise
He performed the sacrifice. He called it the Maha Yagna - the Great Sacrifice.
- The Mantra, At Architecture Treatise
They are, in the Lalitopakhyana ’s account, three of the twelve sages to whom the restored Kamadeva taught the practice in the immediate aftermath of Lalita’s emergence from the Maha Yagna fire.
- The Name Treatise
She did not have to descend into the Maha Yagna fire and emerge as Lalita.
- The Worship - At The Architecture Of Nine Doors Treatise
Maha Yagna - full ritual sacrifice involving multiple practitioners and an officiating guru.