Homa — offering into fire

Many larger rites include a homa: offerings of ghee, grains and herbs into a consecrated fire, each ending with “svāhā”. In the Vedic view Agni carries the offering to the gods.

A homa can be a few minutes long in a home havan or last many hours in a temple. Our separate page on homam explains it in detail.

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