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svāhā

offering call (svāhā)

The cry uttered at the moment the oblation is released, svaha, and its counterpart the vasat-call. 326 passages carry it: 155 in the Yajurveda and 157 in the Atharvaveda against 14 in the Rigveda and none at all in the Samaveda, which makes it the sharpest single lexical signature of a formulary in the corpus. VS 25.1 fires it twice in one breath, "śuklāya svāhā kṛṣṇāya svāhā".

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