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Is Agnihotra a cult????

I think this article needs to be cleaned up. Khirad 13:47, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

Is there strong evidence linking Agni to Atar? --Tydaj 00:22, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Tibet

In Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, he is a lokapala guarding the South-East. (see e.g. jigten lugs kyi bstan bcos: = "Make your hearth in the South-East corner of the house, which is the quarter of Agni"). He also plays a central role in most Buddhist homa fire-puja rites.


Well not only in Tibet, but in India as well I think. In Sanskrit the word for sout-east is agneya which also means 'Agni's abode'. Meursault2004 13:32, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] From the 1911 encyclopaedia brittanica

AGNI, the Hindu God of Fire, second only to Indra in the power and importance attributed to him in Vedic mythology. His name is the first word of the first hymn of the Rig-veda: " Agni, I entreat, divine appointed priest of sacrifice." The sacrifices made to Agni pass to the gods, for Agni is a messenger from and to the gods; but, at the same time, he is more than a mere messenger, he is an immortal, for another hymn runs: " No god indeed, no mortal is beyond the might of thee, the mighty One. ..." He is a god who lives among men, miraculously reborn each day by the fire-drill, by the friction of the two sticks which are regarded as his parents; he is the supreme director of religious ceremonies and duties,and even has the power of influencing the lot Of man in the future world. He is worshipped under a threefold form, fire on earth, lightning and the sun. His cult survived the metamorphosis of the ancient Vedic nature-worship into modern Hinduism, and there still are in India fire-priests (agnihotri) whose duty is to superintend his worship. The sacred fire-drill for procuring the temple-fire by frictionsymbolic of Agni's daily miraculous birthis still used. In pictorial art Agni is always represented as red, two-faced, suggesting his destructive and beneficent qualities, and with three legs and seven arms.

See W. J. Wilkins, Hindu Mythology (London, 1900); A. A. Macdonell, Vedic Mythology (Strassburg, 1897).

[edit] Classical element

I see nothing in the article to justify this being in the Category:Classical elements. And no, just being listed in the sidebar isn't enough. It should be explicit and in the text of the article, with references if appropriate. 24.4.253.249 08:15, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

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