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Updated: June 26, 2025
But, it may be objected, there is no such condition of life; for texts such as 'he is to perform the Agnihotra as long as he lives, declare men to be obliged to perform sacrifices and the like up to the end of their lives, and Smriti texts contradicting Scripture have no authority. Up. Up.
Let our priest, accompanied by charioteers and cooks, repair to the abode of Drupada, and there maintain our Agnihotra fires. And let Indrasena and the others, taking with them the empty cars, speedily proceeded to Dwaravati. Even this is my wish. And let all these maid-servants of Draupadi go to the Panchalas, with our charioteers and cooks.
Professors and pupils, in fact, all who study the scriptures, if addicted to wicked habits, are to be regarded as illiterate wretches. He only is learned who performeth his religious duties. He only who performeth the Agnihotra and hath his senses under control, is called a Brahmana! The Yaksha asked, 'What doth one gain that speaketh agreeable words?
The term agnihotra is applied equally to the permanent agnihotra and to that agnihotra which forms part of the sacrifice called 'Kundapayinam ayanam'; and the term udgitha is applied equally to the many different meditations described in the first prapathaka of the Chandogya.
In the case of householders, for whom the Agnihotra and so on are obligatory, knowledge presupposes all those works, since scriptural texts such as the one quoted directly state that sacrifices and the like are auxiliary to knowledge.
The host, rising up, should advance towards the guest, offer him a seat, and duly worship him. Even this is eternal morality. They that perform not the Agnihotra, do not wait upon bulls, nor cherish their kinsmen and guests and friends and sons and wives and servants, are consumed with sin for such neglect.
When the Veda says, 'Morning after morning those speak untruth who make the Agnihotra offering before sunrise, it is understood that the censure there passed on the offering before sunrise is really meant to glorify the offering after sunrise. Up.
The host, rising up, should advance towards the guest, offer him a seat, and duly worship him. Even this is eternal morality. They that perform not the Agnihotra not wait upon bulls, nor cherish their kinsmen and guests and friends and sons and wives and servants, are consumed with sin for such neglect.
So large was the number of animals sacrificed in the Agnihotra of that king that the secretions flowing from his kitchen from the heaps of skins deposited there caused a veritable river which from this circumstance, came to be called the Charmanwati. He incessantly gave away nishkas of bright gold unto the Brahmanas, "I give thee nishkas."
Enraged at the ill treatment of Draupadi, the Brahmanas in a body did not perform that evening their Agnihotra ceremony. The winds blew mightily as they did at the time of the universal dissolution. There was a terrible thunder- storm also. Meteors fell from the sky, and Rahu by swallowing the Sun unseasonably alarmed the people terribly.
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