Science of Agnihotra: A sustainable alternative
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.31305/rrjiks.2025.v2.n2.013Keywords:
cultural, spiritual, Agnihotra, healing fire, organic substancesAbstract
India has its rich cultural, spiritual and ancient tradition. Most of our present-day problems has its solution in our ancient culture and tradition. Many secrets are there in our ancient traditions which are helpful in resolving health issues, environment issues and many more. Agnihotra is one of such traditions which is still alive and has lots of potential to cater to our environmental issues. Agnihotra is a simple healing fire from the ancient science of Ayurved. It is a process of purifying the atmosphere through a specially prepared fire. Agnihotra literally translated means: healing fire, wherein Agni means fire and hotra means healing. Agnihotra has its roots mainly in ayurveda. And its origin is traced into Vedic sciences of medicine, agriculture and climate engineering. It is an ancient science given in Sanskrit language, which is known as a language of vibration. We can make changes in the atmosphere with Sanskrit mantras and fire prepared with specific organic substances, at the time of sunrise and sunset. Agnihora has lots of proven benefits, it has Effects on microbial content of air (Purandare V. R. and Prasad N. B, 2012; Mondkar A. G., 1982), It has also proved beneficial in farming and especially germination of rice seeds is being proved by (Heisnam J. Devi et al, 2004), growth of mushroom (V. Indira et al, 2010). Agnihotra also helps in health issues and it has been proved to curb the scabies in rabbits (Mondkar A. G., 1982), skin wounds in human beings (Rao D V K, 1987). The author of this paper has made an attempt to explore the literature and various research articles to understand how Agnihotra can be helpful in sustainability.
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