Vastuhoma, Vāstuhoma: 3 definitions
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Vastushastra (architecture)
Source: archive.org: Catalogue of Pancaratra Agama Texts (vastu)Vāstuhoma (वास्तुहोम) is the name of a ceremony performed during Vāstuyāga (“preliminary building-site rituals”), as discussed in chapter 14 of the Puruṣottamasaṃhitā: a Pāñcarātra text consisting of more than 1800 verses devoted to temple-building and the practical concerns of the Pāñcarātra priestly community.—Another preliminary to the actual pratiṣṭhā-rites is to perform vāstuyāga-rites, in connection with the site chosen, ah operation said to validate the whole undertaking (1-2a). First a vāstumaṇḍala must be prepared and duly honored (2b-10). To the East or North of where this has been fixed a somamaṇḍapa is built, soma is invoked, and the guardians of the directions are worshipped (11-29). Thereupon all the deities appropriate should be invoked into the vāstumaṇḍala-design, whereupon the vāstuhoma is done (30-47).
Vastushastra (वास्तुशास्त्र, vāstuśāstra) refers to the ancient Indian science (shastra) of architecture (vastu), dealing with topics such architecture, sculpture, town-building, fort building and various other constructions. Vastu also deals with the philosophy of the architectural relation with the cosmic universe.
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Sanskrit dictionary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum1) Vāstuhoma (वास्तुहोम) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—Yv. L. 439.
2) Vāstuhoma (वास्तुहोम):—Gov. Or. Libr. Madras 84.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryVāstuhoma (वास्तुहोम):—[=vāstu-homa] [from vāstu > vāstava] m. Name of [work] (cf. -yāga).
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
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Notices of Sanskrit Manuscripts (by Rajendralala Mitra)
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Expiatory Rites in Keralite Tantra (by T. S. Syamkumar)
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Linga Purana (by J. L. Shastri)
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