Fire
object · 6 works · 6 mentions · 6 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Fire the idea
fire · Agnihotra fire · al-nār · fire-keeper · the fire
in the texts
Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq
Fire as the image of felt experience and of enmity's heat.
He who warms himself at the fire knows its heat best.
Nicomachean Ethics
An illustrative element used to show that natural properties cannot be trained into different behavior.
nor can fire be trained to move downwards, nor can anything else that naturally behaves in one way be trained into a habit of behaving in another way.
Works and Days
The element of fire, hidden by Zeus from mankind and stolen back by Prometheus in a fennel-stalk, precipitating Zeus's punishment via Pandora.
but that the noble son of Iapetus stole again for men from Zeus the counsellor in a hollow fennel-stalk, so that Zeus who delights in thunder did not see it.
Āṅgirasa Smṛti
The sacred ritual fire (Agnihotra), invoked as a standard of truth and as inferior to the Brahmin as recipient of offerings.
An offering made in a Brahmin's mouth is superior to one made in the Agnihotra fire.
Fire shines by truth;
Bṛhaspati Smṛti
One of the pure substances placed in court as an instrument of ordeal alongside gold and water.
gold, fire, water, and his own officer are the ten instruments of proof.
Gold, fire, water, and the treatises on *dharma*— the king should place these pure and beneficial things in the middle of the court.
Gold, fire, and water are the eyes, the heart is the king's conscience, and his own officer is the feet.
Memorabilia
Element used as a comparison to show that the sun is not simply fire.
Further, he ignored the fact that sunlight is essential to the health of all vegetation, whereas if anything is heated by fire it withers.