After P.E. Dumont (Baltimore 1939) had presented a survey of the description of the Agnihotra ritual as found in the ritualistic sutras, this book (Originally published in 1976) offers a systematic treatment of the esoteric interpretations of this ritual as found in the Vedic prose texts(including the relevant sections of the Yajurvedic Samhitas). The agnihotra formed the starting point of several important doctrines, which were further developed in later texts. Apart from its ritualistic relevance, it is also of great importance for the early history of ideas in India. the systematic arrangement of the sections translated here increase our knowledge about the network of parallel Vedic Texts, their borrowings and relative chronology.
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