pancha-maha-yajna
pañca-mahā-yajñaThe five great daily offerings prescribed for the grhastha: to the gods, the ancestors, all beings, fellow humans and the seers; the domestic form of the yajna.
Where this term appears
- The Rhythms Within the Month Treatise
Around this daily worship the Dharmashastra built a wider discipline for the householder, the pancha-maha-yajna , the five great daily offerings, set out in texts such as the Manusmriti .
- Runanubandha, the debts we are born into Treatise
And from the tradition of the five great sacrifices, the pancha-maha-yajna , comes a fifth, a debt to all other creatures, discharged by care for them, so that the tradition came to speak of five debts, the pan…