Vedi (वेदिः) - Revision history

Ckanak93: Adding content with reference

2020-04-29T10:18:54Z

Adding content with reference

Ckanak93 at 05:48, 17 April 2020

2020-04-17T05:48:09Z

Show changes

Ckanak93: Adding content - needs editing

2020-04-15T07:15:21Z

Adding content - needs editing

Ckanak93: Adding content - needs editing

2020-04-15T05:47:22Z

Adding content - needs editing

Ckanak93: Adding content - needs editing

2020-04-15T05:40:01Z

Adding content - needs editing

P16459: Yajna

2019-09-22T12:56:01Z

Yajna

Fordharma at 09:41, 24 April 2019

2019-04-24T09:41:35Z

P16459 at 06:25, 28 December 2018

2018-12-28T06:25:10Z

Ckanak93: Removed wiki templates

2018-12-28T06:13:01Z

Removed wiki templates

Ckanak93: Ckanak93 moved page Vedi (altar) to Vedi (वेदिः) without leaving a redirect: Title edited

2018-12-28T06:09:57Z

Ckanak93 moved page Vedi (altar) to Vedi (वेदिः) without leaving a redirect: Title edited

← Older revision		Revision as of 10:18, 29 April 2020
Line 18:		Line 18:

	ŚBM 10.3.1. describes that the altar is symbolically built with gayatri (24 syllables), usnih (breath, 28 syllables), pankti (mind, 40 syllables), tristubh (ear, 44 syllables), jagati (48 syllables) and generative breath. The gayatri altar's height is to the knees, the tristubh's to the navel and the jagati's to a man's height.		ŚBM 10.3.1. describes that the altar is symbolically built with gayatri (24 syllables), usnih (breath, 28 syllables), pankti (mind, 40 syllables), tristubh (ear, 44 syllables), jagati (48 syllables) and generative breath. The gayatri altar's height is to the knees, the tristubh's to the navel and the jagati's to a man's height.
		+
		+	The altars are made in fi�ve layers to represent the three regions and the two intermediate spaces where atmosphere and earth and also atmosphere and sky meet.<ref name=":0" />

	== Agnicayana ==		== Agnicayana ==

@@ Line 73: / Line 73: @@
 A well-known altar ritual says that altars should be constructed in a sequence of 95, with progressively increasing areas. The increase in the area, by one unit yearly, in building progressively larger �fire altars is 48 tithis which is about equal to the intercalation required to make the nakshatra year in tithis equal to the solar year in tithis. But there is a residual excess which in 95 years adds up to 89 tithis; it appears that after this period such a correction was made. The 95 year cycle corresponds to the tropical year being equal to 365.24675 days. The cycles needed to harmonize various motions led to the concept of increasing periods and world ages.<ref name=":0" />
-==External links==
+== Rgveda and the Vedi<ref name=":0" /> ==
 *http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/george/vedi.html

← Older revision		Revision as of 05:47, 15 April 2020
Line 63:		Line 63:

	The number of ordinary bricks equals 10,800 which equals the number of muhurtas in a year (1 day = 30 muhurtas), or equivalently the number of days in 30 years. Of these 21 go into the garhapatya, 78 into the eight dhishnya hearths, and the rest go into the ahavaniya altar.<ref name=":0" />		The number of ordinary bricks equals 10,800 which equals the number of muhurtas in a year (1 day = 30 muhurtas), or equivalently the number of days in 30 years. Of these 21 go into the garhapatya, 78 into the eight dhishnya hearths, and the rest go into the ahavaniya altar.<ref name=":0" />
		+
		+	== Area of the Vedi and the concept of a year<ref name=":0" /> ==
		+	The main altar was an area of 7 1/2 units. This area was taken to be equivalent to the nominal year of 360 days. Now, each subsequent year, the shape was to be reproduced with the area increased by one unit.
		+
		+	The ancient Indians spoke of two kinds of day counts: the solar day, and tithi, whose mean value is the lunar year divided into 360 parts. They also considered three different years:
		+	# Nakshatra, or a year of 324 days (sometimes 324 tithis) obtained by considering 12 months of 27 days each, where this 27 is the ideal number of days in a lunar month;
		+	# Lunar, which is a fraction more than 354 days (360 tithis); and
		+	# Solar, which is in excess of 365 days (between 371 and 372 tithis).
		+	A well-known altar ritual says that altars should be constructed in a sequence of 95, with progressively increasing areas. The increase in the area, by one unit yearly, in building progressively larger �fire altars is 48 tithis which is about equal to the intercalation required to make the nakshatra year in tithis equal to the solar year in tithis. But there is a residual excess which in 95 years adds up to 89 tithis; it appears that after this period such a correction was made. The 95 year cycle corresponds to the tropical year being equal to 365.24675 days. The cycles needed to harmonize various motions led to the concept of increasing periods and world ages.<ref name=":0" />

	==External links==		==External links==

@@ Line 20: / Line 20: @@
 == Agnicayana ==
-{| class=wikitable
+{| class="wikitable"
 |-
 |''Layer''
@@ Line 48: / Line 48: @@
 At [[Kalibangan]] (at the [[Ghaggar]] river) the remains of what some writers claim to be [[fire]] [[altar]]s have been unearthed.<ref>B.B. Lal. Frontiers of the Indus Civilization.1984:57-58</ref> S.R. Rao found similar "fire altars" in Lothal which he thinks could have served no other purpose than a ritualistic one.<ref>S.R. Rao. The Aryans in Indus Civilization.1993:175</ref>
-== References ==
+Refer
 *[[Subhash Kak]]. ''Birth and Early Development of Indian Astronomy''. In ''Astronomy across cultures: The History of Non-Western Astronomy'', [[Helaine Selin]] (ed), Kluwer, 2000
 *Subhash Kak, ''The Astronomical Code of the Rigveda'', Delhi, Munshiram Manoharlal, 2000, ISBN 81-215-0986-6.
 *Sen, S.N., and A.K. Bag. 1983. ''The Sulbasutras''. New Delhi: Indian National Science Academy.
 ==External links==
 *http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/george/vedi.html
 [[Category:Yajnas]]

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
 {{ToBeEdited}}
-'''''Vedi''''' is the term for "sacrificial [[altar]]" in the [[historical Vedic religion|Vedas]]. Such altars were an elevated enclosure, generally strewed with [[Kusha grass]], and having receptacles for the [[sacrificial fire]]; it was of various shapes, but usually narrow in the middle.
+'''''Vedi''''' is the term for "yajnika [[altar]]" in the [[historical Vedic religion|Vedas]]. Such altars were an elevated enclosure, generally strewed with [[Kusha grass]], and having receptacles for the [[yajnika fire]]; it was of various shapes, but usually narrow in the middle.
 *''mahavedi'', the great or entire altar
@@ Line 7: / Line 7: @@
 *''dhishnya'',  a sort of subordinate or side-altar, generally a heap of earth covered with sand on which the fire is placed
 *''drona'', an altar shaped like a trough (Shulbas. 3.216)
-*''adhvaradhishnya'',  a second altar at the [[Soma sacrifice]]
+*''adhvaradhishnya'',  a second altar at the [[Soma yajna]]
 The ''uttaravedi'' was in the shape of a [[falcon]] (''alajacita'' = "piled up in the shape of the bird Alaja"), and was piled up with bricks in the [[Agnicayana]] ritual.
-Vedic altars are described in the circum-Vedic texts dealing with [[Kalpa (Vedanga)|Kalpa]] (the proper performance of sacrifice), notably the [[Satapatha Brahmana]], and the [[Sulbasutras]] say that the [[Rigveda]] corresponds to an altar of mantras.<ref>BSS 7, ASS 14.</ref>
+Vedic altars are described in the circum-Vedic texts dealing with [[Kalpa (Vedanga)|Kalpa]] (the proper performance of yajna), notably the [[Satapatha Brahmana]], and the [[Sulbasutras]] say that the [[Rigveda]] corresponds to an altar of mantras.<ref>BSS 7, ASS 14.</ref>
 Fire altars are already mentioned in the Rigveda. According to [[Taittiriya Samhita]] 5.2.3., they are made of twenty-one bricks.

← Older revision		Revision as of 09:41, 24 April 2019
Line 56:		Line 56:
	*http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/george/vedi.html		*http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/george/vedi.html

−	[[Category:~~Vedas~~]]	+	[[Category:Yajnas]]

← Older revision		Revision as of 06:25, 28 December 2018
Line 1:		Line 1:
		+	{{ToBeEdited}}
		+
	'''''Vedi''''' is the term for "sacrificial [[altar]]" in the [[historical Vedic religion\|Vedas]]. Such altars were an elevated enclosure, generally strewed with [[Kusha grass]], and having receptacles for the [[sacrificial fire]]; it was of various shapes, but usually narrow in the middle.		'''''Vedi''''' is the term for "sacrificial [[altar]]" in the [[historical Vedic religion\|Vedas]]. Such altars were an elevated enclosure, generally strewed with [[Kusha grass]], and having receptacles for the [[sacrificial fire]]; it was of various shapes, but usually narrow in the middle.

Line 55:		Line 57:

	[[Category:Vedas]]		[[Category:Vedas]]
−	~~[[Category:Hindu temples]]~~
−	~~[[Category:Altars]]~~
−	~~[[Category:Yajna]]~~

← Older revision	Revision as of 06:09, 28 December 2018
(No difference)