[INDOLOGY] fire

[Nagaraj Paturi]

Thanks Prof. Asko Parpola for these references.

On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 1:27 PM Asko Parpola via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear Patrick,
>
> The following studies discuss interiorized fire sacrifice:
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> Bentor, Yael, 2000. Interiorized fire rituals in India and in Tibet.
> Journal of the American Oriental Society  230 (4): 594-613.
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>  Bodewitz, H.W., 1973. Jaiminīya Brāhmaṇa I, 1-65. Translation and
> commentary, with a study Agnihotra and Prāṇāgnihotra. (Orientalia
> Rheno-Traiectina, 17.) Leiden: E.J. Brill.  376 pp.
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> Gupta, Sanjukta, 1992. Yoga and antaryāga in Pāñcarātra. Pp. 175-208 in:
> Teun Goudriaan (ed.), Ritual and speculation in early Tantrism: Studies in
> honor of André Padoux. (SUNY series in Tantric studies.) Albany: State
> University of New York Press.  Reprinted, (Sri Garib Dass Oriental Series,
> 163), Delhi: Sri Satguru Publications, 1993.
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> With best wishes, Asko
>
> Asko Parpola
> Professor emeritus of Indology
> University of Helsinki
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> On 17 Jan 2021, at 8.31, patrick mccartney via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
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> Dear Friends,
>
> During these winter months where I've been making a nightly fire to stare
> into and keep warm I became curious about textual references to the use of
> fire.
> I'm generally wondering if there is any focused discussion around the
> following
> verses in Manusmṛti pertaining to permitted uses of fire? I find this
> collection of verses interesting.
>
> In 6.4 the 'forest dweller' is permitted to take
> 1 sacrificial fire and utensils with him.
> In 6.23 he is instructed to use 5 fires and endure pañcatapa during
> summer.
> In 6.23 he is instructed to increase the level of discomfort, leading to
> the instruction in 6.25 to internalise the 3 sacred fires and then subsist
> without fire (he brought from home).
>
> agnihotraṃ samādāya gṛhyaṃ cāgniparicchadam
> grāmād araṇyaṃ niḥsṛtya nivasen niyatendriyaḥ // Manu_6.4
>
> grīṣme pañcatapās tu syād varṣāsv abhrāvakāśikaḥ
> ārdravāsās tu hemante kramaśo vardhayaṃs tapaḥ // Manu_6.23
>
> upaspṛśaṃs triṣavaṇaṃ pitṝn devāṃś ca tarpayet
> tapaś caraṃś cogrataraṃ śoṣayed deham ātmanaḥ // Manu_6.24
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> agnīn ātmani vaitānān samāropya yathāvidhi
> anagnir aniketaḥ syān munir mūlaphalāśanaḥ // Manu_6.25
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> I'm specifically wondering if there is instruction made explicit
> (somewhere) about the route through which fire is internalised and how one
> might measure success of the process by which internalisation occurs.
>
> Thank you.
>
>
> All the best,
>
> パトリック マッカートニー
> Patrick McCartney, PhD
> Research Affiliate - Organization for Identity and Cultural Development
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Nagaraj Paturi

Hyderabad, Telangana, INDIA.


Director,  Inter-Gurukula-University Centre , Indic Academy
BoS, MIT School of Vedic Sciences, Pune, Maharashtra
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