Note 26 — Chapter VIII · TOTEMISM AND FETISHISM.
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Agnihotra is a perpetual sacred fire preserved in Agnikunda,—a hole in the ground for receiving and preserving consecrated fire. A Bráhman, who has to accept the Agnihotra, has to preserve in his house the sacred fire day and night after his thread ceremony, and to worship it three times a day after taking his bath. When an Agnihotri dies, his body is burnt by the people who prepare fire by rubbing sticks of Pipal wood together.26