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→Dana Associated Terminology
Dana : Involves giving of mainly material items with proper respect, following rituals without an expectation of any return.
Dana : Involves giving of mainly material items with proper respect, following rituals without an expectation of any return.
Dakshina : Often confused with Dana,
Dakshina : Often confused with Dana, Dakshina is a type of honorarium for services. The amount given to not an agreed amount and is usually a random amount paid by the donor as covering fees for the dana. It does not qualify as a dana. Any donation is accompanied by dakshina.
Bhiksha : It is the provision of food and other basic necessities mainly to ascetics and brahmacharis living in ashrams.
Bheek : It is the giving of alms to beggars, without recitation of any mantra nor is the receiver is classified as a pratigrihita.<ref name=":0" />
According to shastras, there is a distinction between yaga, homa and dana. A yaga is constituted by abandoning something that belongs to one, intending it for a deity and accompanying it with vedic mantras. Homa is offering into fire something that belongs to oneself over which one abandons one's ownership with an intention to make an offering to the deities. Dana is willful cessation of one's ownership over a thing and creating the ownership of another over that thing. Dana occurs when the other person accepts the thing, which may be mental or vocal or physical.<ref name=":1" />
== References ==
== References ==