The person who cuts the hair is also tabooed; his hands having been in contact with a sacred head, he may not touch food with them or engage in any other employment; he is fed by another person with food cooked over a sacred fire.
The lighting of "sacred fire," by means of the wooden fire-drill and the wooden socket block, appears as the most ancient and widespread ritualistic performance.
And while recalled by this circumstance, I must observe that the vitrification manifest within the walls of that structure arose from the burning of the dead bodies therein, and not from the indications of the sacred fire.
Five minutes later the "Sacred Fire" issued, and a really wonderful scene followed.
On his return the people flee, while he goes to the river, takes the first salmon of the catch, eats some of it, and with the rest kindles the sacred fire in the sweating house.
One of the titles of Agni is Pramantha, because on each occasion when he was required he was summoned by the friction of the Arani, or sacred fire-drill.
Its wood is used in parts of the Arani, or sacred fire-drill, and for the spoons with which butter is poured on the holy fire.
It forms, on account of its hardness, the base of the Arani or sacred fire-drill, and in it the wedge of the softer Pipal wood works and fire is produced by friction.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sacred fire" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
