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=== देवयज्ञः || Deva Yajna  ===

=== देवयज्ञः || Deva Yajna  ===

<blockquote>"तत्र देवयज्ञस्य लक्षणमाह - यदग्नौ जुहोत्यपि समिधं तद्देवयज्ञ: संतिष्ठते - इति ||"</blockquote><blockquote>"पुरोडाशादिहविर्मुख्यं तदलाभे समिधमप्यग्नौ देवानुद्दिशञ्जुहोतीति यत्सोऽयं देवयज्ञः ||" (Saya. Bhas.)</blockquote>Meaning : The characteristics of Devayagna are now said - Wherein the समिधम् || samidha (sacrificial material ) are offered into Agni, that completes Devayagna.  According to Saayana, "पुरोडाश || Purodaasha" ( a special kind of sacrificial offering) is to be offered primarily as a sacrificial offering, however when that is unavailable, samidha are offered for Devatas and such a practice is called Devayagna.

<blockquote>तत्र देवयज्ञस्य लक्षणमाह - यदग्नौ जुहोत्यपि समिधं तद्देवयज्ञ: संतिष्ठते - इति ||</blockquote><blockquote>पुरोडाशादिहविर्मुख्यं तदलाभे समिधमप्यग्नौ देवानुद्दिशञ्जुहोतीति यत्सोऽयं देवयज्ञः || (Saya. Bhas.)</blockquote><blockquote>tatra devayajñasya lakṣaṇamāha - yadagnau juhotyapi samidhaṃ taddevayajña: saṃtiṣṭhate - iti ||</blockquote><blockquote>puroḍāśādihavirmukhyaṃ tadalābhe samidhamapyagnau devānuddiśañjuhotīti yatso'yaṃ devayajñaḥ || (Saya. Bhas.)</blockquote><blockquote>Meaning : The characteristics of Devayajna are now said - Wherein the समिधः || samidha (sacrificial material ) is offered into Agni, that completes Devayajna.  According to सायणाचार्यः ॥ Sayanacharya, पुरोडाशः || Purodasha ( a special kind of sacrificial offering) is to be offered primarily as a sacrificial offering. However, when that is unavailable, samidha is offered for Devatas and such a practice is called Devayajna.</blockquote>Deva Yajna, is the sacrifice offered to the celestial beings in the form of milk, ghee, herbs, and camphor offered into the [[Agnihotra (अग्निहोत्रम्)|अग्निहोत्रम् || Agnihotra]] (sacrificial fire). Havis are the offerings for Devatas made with the utterance of स्वाहा || Svaha at the end of the mantra. Homa or Havan promotes rains which give good crops and harvest.   

 

Deva-Yajna, is the sacrifice offered to the celestial beings in the form of milk, ghee, herbs, and camphor offered into the [[Agnihotra (अग्निहोत्रम्)|अग्निहोत्र || Agnihotra]] (sacrificial fire). Havis are the offerings for Devatas made with the utterance of "स्वाह || Svaaha" at the end of the mantra. Homam or Havan promotes rains which give good crops and harvest.   

=== पितृयज्ञः || Pitru Yajna  ===

=== पितृयज्ञः || Pitru Yajna  ===

<blockquote>"तत्र पिण्डदानासंभवे जलमात्रमपि पितृभ्यः स्वधाऽस्त्विति स्वधाशब्देन यद्ददाति सोऽयं पितृयज्ञः ---"|| (Saya. Bhas)</blockquote>According to Saayana, Pitri-Yajna, is where Pindapradhana (offering of pindas made of rice) is made into fire with the chanting of "स्वधा || svadha", but when that is not possible even water offered to Pitrus with "स्वधाकारः || svadhakaara" (i.e using the mantras with svadha in the end) or offering anything into the fire with "svadha" constitutes the Pirtuyagna.   

<blockquote>"तत्र पिण्डदानासंभवे जलमात्रमपि पितृभ्यः स्वधाऽस्त्विति स्वधाशब्देन यद्ददाति सोऽयं पितृयज्ञः ---"|| (Saya. Bhas)</blockquote>According to Saayana, Pitri-Yajna, is where Pindapradhana (offering of pindas made of rice) is made into fire with the chanting of "स्वधा || svadha", but when that is not possible even water offered to Pitrus with "स्वधाकारः || svadhakaara" (i.e using the mantras with svadha in the end) or offering anything into the fire with "svadha" constitutes the Pirtuyagna.