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Agnihotra

The document provides instructions for performing the Hindu ritual of Agnihotra. It describes how to build a small fire using cow dung cakes and ghee, and offers rice grains smeared in ghee to the fire while reciting mantras at sunrise and sunset times.

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Agnihotra

The document provides instructions for performing the Hindu ritual of Agnihotra. It describes how to build a small fire using cow dung cakes and ghee, and offers rice grains smeared in ghee to the fire while reciting mantras at sunrise and sunset times.

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First, take a small piece of the cow dung cake and place it at the bottom of the p
put Gugul, Camphor or a Cotton Wick duly soaked in cow's ghee on the bottom
and then start arranging the other pieces of cow dung cakes around it neatly. Us
matchstick to light the fire. If necessary, use the fan so that all the pieces are ful
Take two pinchfuls of clean, unbroken rice grains (raw) on your left palm or in
dish. Smear these rice grains with a few drops of cow's pure ghee. Divide the gh
smeared rice grains in two parts.

Keep an eye on your watch and sooner its needle touches the exact sunrise time, start uttering the first mant
'Sooryaya Svaha'. While you start saying 'Svaha' offer one part of the rice grains to the fire. Continue and
the mantra's first line 'Sooryaya Idam Na Mama'.
Start uttering the other line of the mantra, 'Prajapataye Svaha',while offering the other part of the rice grai
fire after saying and go on to complete the mantra, 'Prajapataye Idam Na Mama'. Concentrate on the fire
offerings are fully burnt. The morning Agnihotra concludes here.

In the evening before the Agnihotra time, remove very carefully the morning Agnihotra ash from the pot an
bag or box specially kept aside for it. Repeating the morning process, prepare a fresh fire from the cowdung
pot. Also prepare two equal parts of the cow ghee smeared rice grains for the two offerings.

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