[Advaita-l] Fwd: शिरोव्रतम् नाम किम्?

Jaldhar H. Vyas jaldhar at braincells.com
Thu Mar 22 01:28:12 EDT 2018


On Tue, 20 Mar 2018, V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l wrote:

> At the end of the Mundakopanishat occurs this mantra:
>
> तदेतदृचाभ्युक्तम् —
> क्रियावन्तः श्रोत्रिया ब्रह्मनिष्ठाः स्वयं जुह्वत एकर्षिं श्रद्धयन्तः ।
> तेषामेवैतां ब्रह्मविद्यां वदेत *शिरोव्रतं* विधिवद्यैस्तु चीर्णम् ॥ १० ॥
>
> This vidya is to be given to those who have performed/observed the
> 'shirovratam'.  Shankara in his commentary says:  शिरोव्रतं
> शिरस्यग्निधारणलक्षणम् । यथा आथर्वणानां वेदव्रतं प्रसिद्धम् । यैस्तु यैश्च
> तत् चीर्णं विधिवत् यथाविधानं तेषामेव वदेत ॥
>
> It appears that there is such a vrata mentioned in the Atharva Veda.  It
> involves bearing fire on the head.  Are any scholars aware of the vrata of
> this nature in the Atharva Veda?
>

Our list member Animesh who has studied atharvaveda talked about this a 
year or two ago.



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Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>


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