homa

How to use homa in a sentence

• And o'er sacred rights of homa Brahmans chant their mantra high, There is heard the jackal's wailing and the raven's ominous cry!

  Maha-bharata | Anonymous

• The present chapters belong to the period of the revival of the homa cult among the Mazdaists or Zarathustrians.

  The Worlds Greatest Books, Volume XIII. | Various

• Sarpa homa is the name given to the somewhat elaborate ceremony of snake-worship.

  Beast and Man in India | John Lockwood Kipling

• All the fragments of the herbs which had been provided for homa were then ground into powder.

  Indian Myth and Legend | Donald Alexander Mackenzie

• The homa is that sacrificial rite which consists of pouring libations of clarified butter into fire.

  The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Bk. 3 Pt. 2 | Translated by Kisari Mohan Ganguli