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iṣṭakā

ritual brick (iṣṭakā)

The brick the fire is piled out of, addressed directly and only in the Yajurveda: "imā me agna iṣṭakā dhenavaḥ santu", let these bricks of mine, Agni, be milch-cows (VS 17.2). Token-matched once and read once; its four substring hits are 40% intrusions and are not relied on.

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