vedic/hindu fire altars

[Guest guest]

Hello,

 

I am trying hard, but with little success, to determine what the

measurements are for a Vedic fire-altar (Yagna Vedi). Does anyone here know

anything about this matter? I have it on good information that it is a

cube, but I cannot confirm this from any other source I check.

 

I have read that the Vedic fire-altar is built in five layers and that the

Agnichayana portion of the Satapatha Brahmana describes in detail the

procedure of building a Vedic fire-altar but I don't have a copy of this

text. Hence my dilemma.

 

In spite of this alleged five layered correspondence, many of the pictures I

have seen of Vedic fire altars appear to be three-tiered (and not five).

There seems to be little, if any, consistency on the matter. More than

that, there is little hard evidence available on the Net. Mostly summary

and allusion, which I should like to cut through and get to a source. This

applies also to the work of Abraham Seidenberg on the early sacred geometry

of India. I would love to get my hands on it but as I am living in Japan it

is hard to come by.

 

Any help or light you could shed would be warmly welcomed and deeply

appreciated.

 

-Chris

 

 

[Guest guest]

Do you have access to the book _Agni_ by Frits Staal? It should

answer most of your questions in detail.