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‘Agnihotra’ then means worshipping the Lord Vishnu - Aadi Naarayana - riding on the divine serpent and controlling the infinite cosmos, only by will. It is now considered by some as the worship of the Lord Yajna Naarayana.
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‘Agnihotra’ is a sacred tradition started by the ‘Rishis’ of ancient India. Performance and contemporary meaning of the Agnihotra (simple interpretation for common understanding) There is a simplied version of the Agnihotra in the Grihyasutras and in later post-Vedic texts. The Vedic Agnihotra takes about 15 minutes in current performances. The ritual is performed by a Brahmin priest for his own or the benefit of a sponsor (yajamāna). This small rite is surrounded by a large number of additional actions and is followed by the worship of the three (or five) sacred fires (agny-upasthāna). This preserves the sun over night, which is also one of the interpretations of the ritual given in the Samhitas and Brahmanas. The central part of the Agnihotra consists of making two offerings of milk into the fire exactly at, slightly before, or even after the time of sunset and sunrise, along with Vedic mantras that relate the fire and the sun to each other: ' agnir jyotir, jyotiḥ sūryaḥ svāhā' in the evening, but the reverse ' sūryo jyotir, jyotir agniḥ svāhā' in the morning.
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1400 BC) and it the closely related Zoroastrian religion (Yasna Haptaŋhāiti). It finds earliest mention in the Atharva Veda (1000 BC), vi 97,1, (source Monier Williams) though pouring into the ritual fire was known as early as in the Ṛgveda (c.