Vaiśvadeva
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in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
The Vaiśvadeva offering, a ritual category ('offering to all the gods') invoked across several oblation hymns.
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.
both together move about the Vaiśvadeva sacrificial offering.
Parāśara Smṛti
The daily ritual offering to all deities, treated as a central duty intertwined with hospitality obligations.
Twilight prayers and bathing, recitation of sacred texts (*japa*), fire offerings (*homa*), worship of deities and guests, hospitality to an *atithi* (a guest, who must be honored), and the *Vaiśvadeva* (the daily ritual offering to all deities) — these are the six duties to be performed day by day.
Whether he is liked or disliked, a fool or a scholar, if he arrives at the end of the *Vaiśvadeva* ritual, that *atithi* is a bridge to heaven.
Those who are without the *Vaiśvadeva* and are excluded from hospitality to an *atithi*—they all go to hell and are born in the womb of a crow.