Agni Definition

Agni Sentence Examples

• The Assinis are of Ashanti origin, and chiefly of the Ochin and Agni tribes.

• His cult survived the metamorphosis of the ancient Vedic nature-worship into modern Hinduism, and there still are in India fire-priests (agnihotri) whose duty is to superintend his worship. The sacred fire-drill for procuring the temple-fire by friction - symbolic of Agni's daily miraculous birth - is still used.

• In pictorial art Agni is always represented as red, two-faced, suggesting his destructive and beneficent qualities, and with three legs and seven arms.

• For purposes of ritual, however, the Pleiades, with Agni or " Fire " as their presiding deity, continued to be the first sign.

• He is celebrated as a dual divinity with Indra, Agni, Pushan or Rudra, in other books.