वैश्वदेव

{ vaiśvadeva(m), vaiśvadēva }

Puranic Encyclopaedia

VAIŚVADEVA(M)   A sacrifice. It is mentioned in [Devī Bhāgavata, Skandha 11] , that a brahmin should perform this sacrifice to protect himself from hurts caused by oven, threshing stone, axe, cutting knife, and other weapons. This sacrifice could be performed in a cavity for kindling fire on the floor besmeared with cowdung and mud. It should not be done in an ordinary oven meant for cooking, in iron oven, in earthernware or on ordinary floor. As all the deities are having faces of fire, the sacrificial fire should not be kindled by fanning the flame with hand, winnow, hide of black antelope or cloth. By fanning the flame with cloth, the sacrificer will contract disease; by winnowing he would sustain loss of wealth; and death, by fanning with hand. Plums, fruits, roots, curd, ghee etc. could be used as burnt offerings. When these are not available, firewood, roots of herbs, grass etc. could be used instead. Things to be offered as burnt-offerings should be purified, first by sprinkling ghee on them. In the absence of ghee, milk, curd and water may be used. Using things which are unfit as burnt-offerings will invite bad results. In Vaiśvadeva-sacrifice, half-burnt firewood used in cooking, should never be used. So also salts of any kind. After finishing Vaiśvadeva, Gogrāsa (giving rice to cow) also should be done.

A dictionary, Marathi and English

   vaiśvadēva m S A ceremony of the daily course, viz. the casting, before beginning the meal, of a little food into the fire as an offering to अग्नि.

Aryabhushan School Dictionary

  m  A daily oblation.

महाराष्ट्र शब्दकोश

  पु. रोज भोजनापूर्वी अग्नीला आहुती देण्याचा विधि ; पंचयज्ञांपैकी एक यज्ञ . [ सं . ]

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

वैश्वदेव  mfn.  mf( ई)n. ( fr. विश्व-देव) relating or sacred to all the gods or to the विश्वे देवाः, [VS.] &c. &c.
वैश्वदेव  m.  m. a partic. ग्रह or सोम-vessel, [VS.]; [ŚBr.]
   a partic. एकाह, [ŚāṅkhŚr.]
वैश्वदेव  n.  n. a partic. शस्त्र, [AitBr.]
   the first पर्वन् of the चातुर्मास्य, [TBr.]; [ŚBr.]
बलि-हरण  m. (exceptionally m.) N. of a partic. religious ceremony which ought to be performed morning and evening and especially before the midday meal (it consists in homage paid to the विश्वे देवाः followed by the or offering of small portions of cooked food to all the gods who give the food and especially to the god of fire who cooks the food and bears the offering to heaven), [Āpast.]; [Mn.] &c. ( cf. [RTL. 417])

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बलि हरण

    N. of partic. verses or formulas, [TBr.]; [ŚBr.]
   of various सामन्s, [ĀrṣBr.]
वैश्व   the नक्षत्र उत्तराषाढा ( cf. under ), [VarBṛS.]

The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

वैश्वदेव [vaiśvadēva] a.  a. (-वी f.)
   Belonging to the Viśvedevas, q. v.; [Mb.12.31.8.]
-वम् [विश्वेभ्यो देवेभ्यो देयो बलिः   अण्]
   An offering made to the Viśvedevas.
   An offering to all deities (made by presenting oblations to fire before meals).
-वी   The eighth day of the second half of Māgha.

Shabda-Sagara

वैश्वदेव  mfn.  ( -वः-वी-वं)
   1. Sacred or dedicated to the Viśwadevas, offered to them, relating to them, &c.
   2. Relating to all divinities. n. ( -वं) Offering to all the divinities.
  f.  ( -वी) Species of the Panktī metre.
    E. विश्वदेव, and अण् aff.

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विश्वदेव अण्