[INDOLOGY] fire

[Asko Parpola]

Dear Patrick,

The following studies discuss interiorized fire sacrifice:

Bentor, Yael, 2000. Interiorized fire rituals in India and in Tibet. Journal of the American Oriental Society  230 (4): 594-613. 

 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.

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.

With best wishes, Asko

Asko Parpola 
Professor emeritus of Indology
University of Helsinki



> On 17 Jan 2021, at 8.31, patrick mccartney via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
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> Dear Friends, 
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> 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
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> 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
> 
> 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
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