Svaha

Svaha
Svaha
Goddess of Sacrifices
	Agni with Svaha
Affiliation	Devi
Abode	Agniloka
Mantra	Om Svaha
Genealogy
Parents	Daksha (father) and Prasuti (mother)
Consort	Agni
Children	Pavaka, Pavamana, Shuchi, Agneya, Skanda

Svaha (Sanskrit: स्वाहा, IAST: Svāhā), also referred to as Manyanti, is the Hindu goddess of sacrifices featured in the Vedas.^[4] She is the consort of Agni, and the daughter of either Daksha or Brihaspati, depending on the literary tradition. According to the Brahmavaivarta Purana, she is an aspect of Prakriti (nature), an element without which Agni cannot sustain.^[5]

Additionally, in Hinduism and Buddhism, the Sanskrit lexical item svāhā (romanized Sanskrit transcription; Devanagari: स्वाहा; Khmer: ស្វាហា; Thai: สวาหะ; Chinese: 薩婆訶, sà pó hē, Japanese: sowaka; Tibetan: སྭཱ་ཧཱ་ sw'a h'a; Korean: 사바하, sabaha; Vietnamese : ta bà ha) is a denouement used at the end of a mantra, which is invoked during yajna fire sacrifices and worship.^[6] Svāhā is chanted to offer oblation to the gods.^[7]^[8] As a feminine noun, svāhā in the Rigveda may also mean oblation (to Agni or Indra). Svaha is also considered to mean an auspicious ending.

^ Hertel, Bradley R.; Humes, Cynthia Ann (January 1993). Living Banaras: Hindu Religion in Cultural Context. SUNY Press. ISBN 9780791413319.
^ ^a ^b Dalal, Roshen (18 April 2014). Hinduism: An Alphabetical Guide. Penguin UK. ISBN 9788184752779.
^ Antonio Rigopoulos (1998). Dattatreya: The Immortal Guru, Yogin, and Avatara: A Study of the Transformative and Inclusive Character of a Multi-faceted Hindu Deity. State University of New York Press. p. 72. ISBN 978-0-7914-3696-7.
^ Hertel, Bradley R.; Humes, Cynthia Ann (1 January 1993). Living Banaras: Hindu Religion in Cultural Context. SUNY Press. p. 232. ISBN 978-0-7914-1331-9.
^ Dalal, Roshen (18 April 2014). Hinduism: An Alphabetical Guide. Penguin UK. ISBN 978-81-8475-277-9.
^ Pal, Ankit (September 2020). "why do we say swaha at the end of Mantra during Havan". newstrend.news. Newstrend. Retrieved 4 March 2021.
^ Cappeller, Carl (1891). A Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Based Upon the St. Petersburg Lexicons. K. Paul.
^ Franco, Rendich (14 December 2013). Comparative etymological Dictionary of classical Indo-European languages: Indo-European - Sanskrit - Greek - Latin. Rendich Franco.

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[1] Hertel, Bradley R.; Humes, Cynthia Ann (January 1993). Living Banaras: Hindu Religion in Cultural Context. SUNY Press. ISBN 9780791413319.

[Dalal-2] Dalal, Roshen (18 April 2014). Hinduism: An Alphabetical Guide. Penguin UK. ISBN 9788184752779.

[4] Antonio Rigopoulos (1998). Dattatreya: The Immortal Guru, Yogin, and Avatara: A Study of the Transformative and Inclusive Character of a Multi-faceted Hindu Deity. State University of New York Press. p. 72. ISBN 978-0-7914-3696-7.

[5] Hertel, Bradley R.; Humes, Cynthia Ann (1 January 1993). Living Banaras: Hindu Religion in Cultural Context. SUNY Press. p. 232. ISBN 978-0-7914-1331-9.

[6] Dalal, Roshen (18 April 2014). Hinduism: An Alphabetical Guide. Penguin UK. ISBN 978-81-8475-277-9.

[7] Pal, Ankit (September 2020). "why do we say swaha at the end of Mantra during Havan". newstrend.news. Newstrend. Retrieved 4 March 2021.

[8] Cappeller, Carl (1891). A Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Based Upon the St. Petersburg Lexicons. K. Paul.

[:0-9] Franco, Rendich (14 December 2013). Comparative etymological Dictionary of classical Indo-European languages: Indo-European - Sanskrit - Greek - Latin. Rendich Franco.

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Svaha
Goddess of Sacrifices^[1]
Agni with Svaha
Affiliation	Devi
Abode	Agniloka
Mantra	Om Svaha
Genealogy
Parents	Daksha (father) and Prasuti (mother)^[a]
Consort	Agni^[3]
Children	Pavaka, Pavamana, Shuchi, Agneya, Skanda^[2]