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homa

hóma m. the act of making an oblation to the Devas or gods by casting clarified butter into the fire (see deva-yajña and [IW. 245]), oblation with fire, burnt-offering, any oblation or sacrifice (ayuta-h°, ‘a sacrifice of 10,000 burnt-offerings to the planets’), [AV.]; &c.