shrauta

श्रौत śrauta

Pertaining to shruti; the solemn, public Vedic rites prescribed by the revealed texts, as distinct from domestic or tantric ritual.

Where this term appears

The Fire She Came From Treatise
He offered into it the standard offerings of the shrauta tradition - clarified butter, grain, the sounds of mantras the Vedas had taught their priests.
The Man Who Drew a Line Treatise
He gave authority to the Vamakeshvara Tantra , which is at root a Kaula text. He held the Vedic shrauta fire-rituals as the highest framing.
The Technological Question Treatise
More than 500 of these were searchable e-texts spanning the Shaiva, Shakta, Sri Vidya, Vaishnava Pancaratra, Vira Shaiva, Natha Yoga, and Vedic Shrauta ritual traditions.
The Library Without Walls Treatise
Vedic shrauta recitation, the solemn public sacrificial rites, with the patha permutations, is still transmitted teacher to student in living shakha lineages, the surviving "branches" of the Veda, each one a di…
The Rules of the Rite Treatise
The Shrauta-sutras govern the shrauta rites, the great solemn sacrifices that demand the three sacred fires.