[INDOLOGY] Altar of Fire / goats

[jmdelire]

Thank you very much for all these precisions,

I had to subtitle (in French) this film and I remember I had some 
difficulties when the chief priest said some words in his terrible 
English about these replacements by vegetables.

Dr J.M.Delire,
Lecturer on Science and civilization of India - Sanskrit texts (IHEB, 
University of Brussels)


Le 25.08.2020 00:43, Robert Goldman via INDOLOGY a écrit :
> There was a debate among the pandits and as the chief priest notes, in
> the film, they took a decision to use packets of flour (attā) as,
> finally, a “veg” option to slaughtering the goats.
> 
> Dr. R. P. Goldman
> Catherine and William L. Magistretti Distinguished Professor in South
> and Southeast Asian Studies
> Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies MC # 2540
> The University of California at Berkeley
> Berkeley, CA 94720-2540
> Tel: 510-642-4089
> Fax: 510-642-2409
> 
>> On Aug 24, 2020, at 3:33 PM, Tracy Coleman via INDOLOGY
>> <indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>> 
>> Dear Indologists,
>> 
>> In the documentary film Altar of Fire, one of the priests discusses
>> the deliberations surrounding the traditional goat sacrifices and
>> reports that they decided not to sacrifice the goats in this
>> Agnicayana. What exactly do they substitute for the goats?
>> 
>> Thank you for your help.
>> Wishing everyone well,
>> 
>> Tracy Coleman
>> Colorado College
>> 
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