Dear Martin,

here is a reference to northern and southern fires in the context of wedding preparations. The fires are explained by Devapāla as non-sacrificial (laukika).

Kāṭhakagṛhyasūtra 19.3:

 

[...] vā dvāv agnī prajvālya dvau paśū upākaroty aryamṇe dakṣiṇaṃ, prājāpatyam uttaram

 

(Devapāla’s Bhāṣya)

[...] laukikau dvāv agnī prajvālya dvau paśū chāgau kanyāsaṃskārārtham upākuryāt paśukalpavat ekam aryamṇe dakṣiṇabhāgavartiny agnau, dvitīyaṃ prajāpataye uttaradigbhāgavartiny agnau [...]


(Quoted from Raik Strunz' forthcoming edition).


Best wishes,

Walter


Am Fr., 17. Mai 2019 um 13:37 Uhr schrieb Martin Gansten via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info>:
I wonder if anyone has come across the word udagagni, or some other compound meaning 'northern/upward fire', other than in the ritual context of sacrificial fires? I am not at all sure what it means, but it is mentioned (in the astrological work Hāyanasundara, v. 166) together with lightning and thunder (and enemies):

syāt ketuyutadṛṣṭaś cet kujo vidyudbhayaṃkaraḥ | syān meghagarjanād bhītiś codagagniripor api ||

(The Sanskrit of the HS is not very elegant, and I don't think udagagniripoḥ is anything more complicated than a dvandva, despite the singular inflection. It could even be a scribal error för udagagne[ḥ] ripoḥ.)

Thanks in advance for any suggestions,

Martin Gansten

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