Meanings
- alternativeuncountableAlternative form of fire-worship.
These brothers did not like the sacrifical form of worship, though they did not discard fireworship and so they were driven out by the sacrifical worshippers.
1995, Shripad Dattatraya Kulkarni, Dharma and Vedic Foundations, page 222 more examples
Similar thought patterns lie behind Malalas' interest in Persian fireworship and Zorastrianism, information on which may derive from an identified Persian informant, Timotheos 'the Persian carrier'.
2003, Gabriele Marasco, Greek and Roman Historiography in Late Antiquity, →ISBNNot much is known about the religion of the Indus civilization, except that they also had some form of fireworship and sacrifice; they also worshipped a form of Shiva, identified as Pashupati; and even had a cult of mother Goddess.
2006, Mangesh Venktesh Nadkarni, Hinduism, a Gandhian Perspective, →ISBN, page 150
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