fire altar piling (citi)
The piling up of Agni out of bricks, named by the Samhita as an act and not by a rite-name: Agni is addressed as `cīyamānaḥ`, "while thou art being piled" (VS 13.41, VS 13.47), the sacrificer as `cinvānaḥ`, "piling" (VS 13.47 and four parallels), and the bricks are addressed as bricks and called milch-cows at VS 17.2. The name `agnicayana` is absent from all four Samhitas and is not used here. `cinvānas` is read evidence but not an alias: it occurs only across a token boundary (`cinvānas tanvo`), and SANDHI_MATCH_VEDAS restricts the production substring pass to the Samaveda, so the string would fire nowhere.
The shape of the rite
Each row is one relationship class the graph stores for this rite. An empty row states which layer is missing.
Performed by
Offerings made
Substances used
Objects used
Deities invoked
Undertaken for
Stated order
What the Samhita text numbers in its own words. Three such steps exist in the whole corpus, all on the soma pressing.
Procedure the sutras print
A different claim from the order above, and a different source. Each work below numbers its own sequence independently, so these are located steps rather than one procedure — they do not run together.
Scope note
7 source work(s) each record their own sequence for this rite, numbered from 1 independently, so the groups do not compose into one procedure. 11 of the 15 steps listed state a position without printing the run it falls in. The evidence is Srautasutra and Grhyasutra, never a Samhita passage, and it is a different claim from `steps` -- which is why it is a different field. The cited works have no node in this graph.
KatySS
- KatySS 17.3.22
triruktāyām aśvapūrvāṃ citiṃ hṛtvā puchād dakṣiṇāṃ nidadhāti
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
- KatySS 17.3.26
pratyañcam āgataṃ citim avaghrāpya pariṇīyotsṛjati paśuvat
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
- KatySS 17.7.1
citiṃ purīṣavatīm upatiṣṭhate vārtrahatyāyeti saptabhiḥ
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
- KatySS 19.1.2
agnicitsomayājisomātipūtasomavāminām
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
- KatySS 25.7.15
vitānaṃ sādhayitvā same bahulatṛṇe 'ntarāgnī citiṃ cinoti
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
VaitS
- VaitS 5.2.5
vārtrahatyāya śavase vi na indra mṛgo na bhīmo vaiśvānaro na ūtaya iti citiṃ citiṃ purīṣācchannām
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
- VaitS 5.2.12
havanaprāsanād āgnīdhro yā āpo divyā iti citiṃ pariṣiñcati
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
- VaitS 5.2.17
kramadhvam agnineti catasṛbhiś citim ārohanti
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
- VaitS 5.3.1
agnicit somātipūtaḥ somavāmī sautrāmaṇyābhiṣicyate
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
SankhSS
- SankhSS 4.14.9
prāgdakṣiṇācīṃ citiṃ kṛtvā
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
- SankhSS 8.15.10
agnicityāyāṃ cāgnau praṇīyamāne 'pratirathaṃ japati
The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.
AsvSS
- AsvSS 3.4.12
prājāpatye tv agnicityāsamyukte vāyavyaṃ paśupuroḍāśam / eke vāyavye prājāpatyam / tena paśudevatā vardhata ity ācāryāḥ puroḍāśatatpradhānatvāt
KausGS
- KausGS 5.2.13
ādahane tūṣṇīṃ nidhāya dakṣiṇasyāṃ diśi dakṣiṇāpravaṇe dakṣiṇāprākpravaṇena vā apeta vīta iti palāśaśākhayā triḥ parilikhya vāstau hiraṇyaśakalaṃ nidhāya dehi yamarāja vāstv asmā itthaṃnāmadheyāya iti gṛhītvā vāstu prāg dakṣiṇāṃ citiṃ citvā
KausS
- KausS 11.5.16
yathā citiṃ tathā śmaśānaṃ dakṣiṇāparāṃ diśam abhi pravaṇam
LatSS
- LatSS 5.7.12
agnicityāyāṃ prāg dīkṣaṇīyāyāḥ sāvitrān homān hoṣyatsu yajuṣopaviśet
Described in
3 passages carry a describes edge for this rite, against 2 that name it. Naming is weaker than describing.
What this ritual model covers
AN INVENTORY OF 103 RITES, NOT A TAXONOMY. The Ritual class holds 103 nodes against a corpus that names considerably more, so a rank in this list is a rank within 103 and says nothing about Vedic ritual as a whole. Two step layers exist and they are not interchangeable. The Samhita layer holds 3 numbered steps in the entire graph, all on the soma pressing, whose morning, midday and third libations the text itself numbers. The procedural layer holds 3,121 steps over 103 rites, read out of Srautasutras and Grhyasutras rather than Samhita passages, and 94% of them state a position without printing the run it falls in -- so a procedure list is not a complete procedure. All 80 apparatus edges are TIER_D curation, and a rite's 'purpose' is what a curator says it is for, not a purpose clause quoted from a passage.
How this rite was modelled4
AN INVENTORY OF 103 RITES, NOT A TAXONOMY. The Ritual class holds 103 nodes against a corpus that names considerably more, so a rank in this list is a rank within 103 and says nothing about Vedic ritual as a whole. Two step layers exist and they are not interchangeable. The Samhita layer holds 3 numbered steps in the entire graph, all on the soma pressing, whose morning, midday and third libations the text itself numbers. The procedural layer holds 3,121 steps over 103 rites, read out of Srautasutras and Grhyasutras rather than Samhita passages, and 94% of them state a position without printing the run it falls in -- so a procedure list is not a complete procedure. All 80 apparatus edges are TIER_D curation, and a rite's 'purpose' is what a curator says it is for, not a purpose clause quoted from a passage.
measuredComplete, and the size of the result is the finding: 3 steps, on 1 of the 8 rites. order_basis = 'SOURCE_STATED_ORDINAL' because the soma pressings are named morning, midday and third in the text itself; no other rite in this corpus states an order, and none was invented for it. Elaborate procedure is Brahmana and Sutra material, so a query about ritual dependency structure is answerable here only in this one instance, and question 39 is otherwise not answerable from the Samhitas.
ritual_step_sequenceComplete: all 8 rites and all 71 edges. Every edge is TIER_D -- the project's judgement that a passage describes a rite, not a statement the passage makes about itself -- and the volume is the honest measure of how much procedure the Samhitas carry: 71 passages out of 22,537. `examples` is capped at 6 per row and `passages` gives the true total beside it. The Yajurvedic majority in several rows is real: the YV is the liturgical collection.
rituals_described_in_passagesThe Anukramani names a 'devata' for every hymn, and 57 of the 214 are not gods: 22 human patrons and seers (Vasistha, Visvamitra, Brbu the carpenter), 7 danastuti labels naming the gift rather than a recipient ('praise of the gift of Sudas son of Pijavana'), and 28 abstractions ruled not to name an addressee, each with its reason recorded. This response excludes all 57 and KEEPS the 5 labels ruled UNDECIDED (Atma, Annam, Brahma, Rati, Saci), because an undecided label removed is a decision made by default. Ask with population=all_ascriptions to see the Anukramani's slot as it stands, with each row's ruling stated.
deity_population_contract