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अग्निशाल (agnizAla)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
अग्नि—शरण or अग्नि—शा॑ल [AV. ],
n.
or house or अग्नि—शाला,
f.
place for keeping, the sacrificial fire.
Goldstucker
English
अग्निशाल Tatpur. f. n. (-ला-लम्) The house where the sa-
cred fire is kept. E. अग्नि and शाला, the latter part of the
compound remaining fem. or becoming neuter.
Apte Hindi
Hindi
अग्निशालम्
नपुं*
अग्निः-शालम् -
"अग्नि का मन्दिर, वह स्थान या घर जहाँ पवित्र अग्नि रक्खी जाय"
Vedic Reference
English
Agni-śāla. This term, which designates part of the sacrificial
apparatus, ^1 is applied in the Atharvaveda^2 to a part of an
ordinary house, presumably the central hall where the fire-
place was.
1) Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā, xix. 18.
2) ix. 3, 7.
Cf. Bloomfield, Hymns. of the Atharva-
veda, 598
Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 154.