- Water is sprinkled in different directions, outside of the Kunda. The significance of water in Agnihotra is manifold: 1) Washing/cleaning – may the mind be washed clean of any negative; 2) Water represents cooling (opposing) force to fire – where there is fire, there should be water; 3) Where the fires of passions arise there should be the cooling temperament of good senses; (4) Water flows from the ultimate source of Godhead (a reference to Ganga flowing from the head of Shiva); (5) Water also represent the force of God – e.g., the great flood of Manu. (6) Water is an alien force to earth that provided the catalyst to life.
- Start at the Southern edge and end at the Northern edge of the kunda.
- Gobhil Grihyasurta 1.3.1
- Start at the Southern edge and end at the Northern edge of the kunda.
- Gobhil Grihyasurta 1.3.2
- Start at the Western edge and end at the Eastern edge of the kunda.
- Gobhil Grihyasurta 1.3.3
- Start at mid-eastern-point, go clockwise and end at same point.
- Yajur Veda 30.1
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