Vedic sacrifice

[DEVARAKONDA VENKATA NARAYANA SARMA]

At 11:50 PM 1/18/98 -0600, JR Gardner wrote:
>While there is no shortage of eulogies to water/aapas in the Vedic
>material, and its ritual purification role is well-attested, I am curious
>as to any mythology and liturgy as regards offerings of water--how are
>they performed and under what circumstances?  I know that Agni is
>well-associated wtih water with regard to hiding there (RV 10.51.3, or
>coming from tehre 10.45.1), but is there anything else?  Preferably from
>Early Vedic ritual rather than the later periods.
>
>thanks in advance, and Happy Martin Luther King Day to those folks knowing
>of it!
>
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>School of Religion         for Advanced Studies
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>It is ludicrous to consider language as anything other
>than that of which it is the transformation.
>
>

As far as I know water is ritualistically offered in the following ways

1.arghya - oblative sUrya, gods, pitRs and atithis
2.pAdya - to wash feet
3.AcamanIya - to wet the mouth
4.pAnIya - to drink
5.tarpaNa -  another kind of oblative to gods and pitRs
6.snAna - for bath
7.prOkSaNa - sprinking of water to purify things
8.upasparzana - to touch water to purify oneself

There may be some more.

regards,

sarma.