[Advaita-l] meaning for certain mantras

[Jaldhar H. Vyas]

On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Bhaskar YR wrote:

> Here in South India most of the people use Apo hishThaa maNtra for
> shuddhOdaka snAnaM & hiraNyavarNAshuchayaH pAvakAyAsu jAtaH kashyapo
> yAsvindraH..... for *malApakarshaNa snAnam* and after each paNchAmruta
> dravya (like milk, curd, ghee, honeyetc. ) abhishekaM. we use either
> sadyOjAtAdi maNtra or chaturvEdArambha maNtrAH & upanishad maNtra.  In
> sandhyA also along with apavitraH pavitrOva, we use Apo hishThA &
> hiraNyavarNAH mantra-s...During bath, we chant aghamarshaNa sUkta from
> tatitireeya mahAnArAyaNa.
>

It occured to me I may have been a little unclear.  dadhikrAvNNo... we use 
in pa~nchAmR^itasnAna in puja.  Apo hiShTA... is used for for kalasha 
jalapuraNa, and shuddhodakasnAna in puja and mArjana in sandhyA.  This is 
according to shuklayajurveda and Gujarati parampara.

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Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>