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'''''Vedi''''' is the term for "sacrificial [[altar]]" in the [[historical Vedic religion|Vedic religion]]. 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.
*''mahavedi'', the great or entire altar
*''mahavedi'', the great or entire altar
*''uttaravedi'', the northern altar made for the sacred fire (''agnyayatana'') [[File:Homa during Sri Thimmaraya swamy Pratishthapana..jpg|thumb|Vedic Fire Altar.]]
*''uttaravedi'', the northern altar made for the sacred fire (''agnyayatana'')
*''dhishnya'', a sort of subordinate or side-altar, generally a heap of earth covered with sand on which the fire is placed
*''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)
*''drona'', an altar shaped like a trough (Shulbas. 3.216)
== Agnicayana ==
== Agnicayana ==
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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>
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 ==
== References ==
*Subhash Kak, ''The Astronomical Code of the Rigveda'', Delhi, Munshiram Manoharlal, 2000, ISBN 81-215-0986-6.
*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.
*Sen, S.N., and A.K. Bag. 1983. ''The Sulbasutras''. New Delhi: Indian National Science Academy.
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