Agni | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-09

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00:01:43 1 Etymology and meaning
00:04:42 2 Origins
00:06:57 3 Texts
00:07:06 3.1 Vedas
00:08:57 3.2 Upanishads
00:11:43 4 Significance
00:12:23 4.1 Rites of passage: Hindu wedding
00:13:12 4.2 Rituals: Agnihotra
00:14:08 4.3 Festivals: Holi and Diwali
00:14:47 4.4 Forms
00:15:45 4.5 Symbolism
00:17:46 5 Iconography
00:19:21 5.1 History
00:20:56 6 Relationships
00:21:05 6.1 Wife and children
00:22:20 6.2 Other gods
00:25:23 7 Mythologies
00:25:39 7.1 Epics
00:26:51 7.2 Puranas
00:27:36 8 Buddhism
00:27:45 8.1 Art works
00:29:44 8.2 Canonical texts
00:31:41 9 Jainism
00:33:18 10 Ancient medicine and food
00:34:59 11 See also



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Agni ( AG-nee, Sanskrit: अग्नि, Pali: Aggi, Malay: Api) is a Sanskrit word meaning fire, and connotes the Vedic fire god of Hinduism. He is also the guardian deity of the southeast direction, and is typically found in southeast corners of Hindu temples.  In the classical cosmology of the Indian religions, Agni as fire is one of the five inert impermanent constituents (Dhatus) along with space (Akasha/Dyaus), water (Jal), air (Vayu/ Varuna) and earth (Prithvi), the five combining to form the empirically perceived material existence (Prakriti).In Vedic literature, Agni is a major and oft-invoked god along with Indra and Soma. Agni is considered the mouth of the gods and goddesses, and the medium that conveys offerings to them in a homa (votive ritual). He is conceptualized in ancient Hindu texts to exist at three levels, on earth as fire, in the atmosphere as lightning, and in the sky as the sun. This triple presence connects him as the messenger between gods and human beings in the Vedic thought. The relative importance of Agni declined in the post-Vedic era, as he was internalized and his identity evolved to metaphorically represent all transformative energy and knowledge in the Upanishads and later Hindu literature. Agni remains an integral part of Hindu traditions, such as being the central witness of the rite-of-passage ritual in traditional Hindu weddings called Saptapadi or Agnipradakshinam (seven steps and mutual vows), as well being part of Diya (lamp) in festivals such as Divali and Aarti in Puja.Agni (Pali: Aggi) is a term that appears extensively in Buddhist texts, and in the literature related to the Senika heresy debate within the Buddhist traditions. In the ancient Jainism thought, Agni (fire) contains soul and fire-bodied beings, additionally appears as Agni-kumara or "fire princes" in its theory of rebirth and a class of reincarnated beings, and is discussed in its texts with the equivalent term Tejas.