yajna
यज्ञ yajñaThe Vedic sacrifice or fire-offering; in the Brahmana texts, the ritual engine held to keep the cosmos in order.
Where this term appears
- What are the Shakti Peethas? Temples
Daksha holds a great yajna (a fire ritual offered to the gods) and invites the whole of the divine world.
- Rita: The Cosmic Order at the Root of Dharma Essentials
The order must be kept, and human beings help keep it. This is what the sacrifice, the yajna , was for.
- The Four Aims of Life (Purusharthas) Essentials
The two great uses of a household's prosperity, yajna , sacrifice, and dana , giving, both require that there first be something to offer.
- The Gayatri Mantra Worship
…penly to anyone who came, regardless of caste or gender, staging mass yajnas at which it is chanted by thousands, many of them converts.
- The History of Sanatana Dharma: A Timeline History
The heart of Vedic life was yajña , the fire sacrifice, an exchange between the human and divine worlds conducted at the altar.
- The Navagraha: The Nine Planetary Powers Deities
The oldest form is the fire-rite, the graha-yajna , prescribed already in the domestic ritual manuals and in the Yajnavalkya Smriti , an offering into the fire to each of the nine.
- The Vedic Age: A Civilization That Left No Ruins History
The yajna , the fire sacrifice, is the great act: offerings of butter, grain, and the pressed juice of soma poured into Agni , the fire, who carries them up to the gods.
- The Vedic Gods: Indra, Agni, and the world of the Rigveda Essentials
It was built on yajna , the fire-sacrifice: a precise ritual in which gods were invited to a fire and fed, so that they would return blessings, cattle, sons, rain, victory.