Note 112 — Chapter II
David Shea translation
कुण्डं a hole in the ground for receiving and preserving consecrated fire.—(Wilson.)
A part of the sacrifice, called Yajna, but it is often performed separately. The things offered are clarified butter, sesamum, flowers, rice, boiled in milk and sweetened in honey, Durva grass, vilwa leaves, and the tender branches, half a span long, of the ashwatta (ficus religiosa), the dumvara (ficus racemosa), the palasha (butea frondosea), the akunda (asclepias gigantea), the sharni (mimosa albida), and the kladira (mimosa catechu) (see Ward, vol. II. p. 58).—D. S.