Vaiśvadeva
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Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
The Vaiśvadeva offering, a ritual category ('offering to all the gods') invoked across several oblation hymns.
both together move about the Vaiśvadeva sacrificial offering.
All you gods, and Vaiśvadeva in Agni, rejoice in the oblation, each according to his share.
This I deem to be the Soma-shoot — this oblation is for all the gods, the Vaiśvadeva offering.
Parāśara Smṛti
The daily ritual offering to all deities, treated as a central duty intertwined with hospitality obligations.
A beggar is able to remove the sin incurred during the *Vaiśvadeva*.
One should know that an *atithi* is one who has come from a long journey, is weary, and has arrived during the *Vaiśvadeva*.
The one from whose house an *atithi* turns away with his hopes shattered—his ancestors will not eat his offerings for fifteen years.