Talk:Yajna
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As far as I know, यज is pronounced ya.gn.a where 'a' is a short 'a' sound and 'g' a hard 'g'. Writing it as 'yajna' is quite misleading, IMO. Perhaps we should change it to read yagna?
Note that it has been suggested that yajna and yagna be merged. To do this we need to choose the better of the two articles, and then redirect one of the spellings to the other. This way a person will get the better of the two articles either way they spell it into the search box. Can there be a vote on which is the better article? Or does anyone volunteer to merge the two articles into a clear and comprehensive one that takes the best of both? Chris 13:41, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
However, it has been suggested on the 'yagna' talk page that they be kept separate, as they have slightly different shades of meaning. Google has 198,000 hits for yajna and 118,000 for yagna, so they both appear to be heavily used spellings.
wtf is that last reference under literature doing here, im gonna delete that as blatant advertising
Comment on article - Bhrigumantra Mahayagya This is not an authentic article. The is a manipulation of the term Yagya. In fact Bhrigu was the sage and he had invented / seen the popular - Mahamrityunjaya mantra which we use very often to help someone in problems, specially in health crisis. Everyone who is aware of hinduism, is also aware of Mahamrityunjaya Mritsanjivani mantra. There is no other Brigu mantra existing in Hindu scriptures. This writer has also puted a name - Bhrigu Samhita Yagya, which is just a book written by sage Bhrigu and at this time absolutely not available. In fact Bhrigu Samhita was the predictive astrology work by Bhrigu and more than 300 people claim that they have Bhrigu Samhita but in a research held by Kadambini Team (Hindustan Times, in 1984) there was nobody who could prove his claim. It seems that the person is trying to put anyhting to misuse the name of Yagya and promote his website/business in different ways. Just ask him/her a proof of any other Brigu Mantra in an authentic book. And naturally, a Yagya can't be held on book name like Bhrigu Samhita. However Ramayan, Mahabharat and Bhagwat Mahayagyas are very pouplar, but in that Yagya the singing of respective books are done. And if you authenticate Bhrigu samhiata aur Bhrigu mantra Yagya then you can do Yagya for every book and every mantra and then the real and traditionally authenticated Yagyas will loose their meanings.
I would suggest not to merge this article in the section Yajna/Yagya. One more thing, the real word is 'Yajna', we have for our comfort made it Yagya and now this word 'yagya' is more widely used than the real one 'yajna'; but using the 3rd word - 'yagna' is neither correct nor appropriate. In fact, in the word 'yajna' there are 2 letters - 'y' & 'jn'(5th letter of 'k'varga).
Any clarification can be requested on our website - www.vedic-yagya.com or through email - info@vedic-yagya.com
Best regards, Dr. Prashant Shukla Jyotish Acharya, Ved Acharya, Ph. D. Ved Bhawan International, UK
Hi Dr. Prashant Shukla, this is in response to your comment on favoring using term "yajna". If you ask anybody to pronounce " yajna " they will pronounce "j" as in Joy and "n" as in Nation, thus pronouncing it in totally wrong way. In this regard, I feel writing it as "yagna" is more closer and "yagnya" is even more closer to correct pronounciation. Lokesh 2000 13:57, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
Shrikant Soman 30th March 2008 I am also aware of the word YADNYA. We should not confuse the POPULAR ENGLISH usage with the original name. Like the word YOGA. The correct word is YOG.
I am not comfortable in restricting the meaning of Yadnya as 'sacrifice'. I want to know the etymological analysis of the original Sanskrit word.
