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Sacrifice is the offering of material possessions or the lives of animals or humans to a deity as an act of propitiation or worship. [1] [2] ...
Tyāga means – sacrifice, renunciation, abandonment, resignation, donation, forsaking, liberality, withdrawal [5] Tyāga which is not merely physical renunciation of the world is different from Sannyasa; Sannyasa which comes from the root as means – "giving up entirely", Tyāga means – "giving up with generosity what one could probably have kept".
These two kinds of sacrifice do not obey the principle and not belongs to self-sacrifice. [4] Although there were many heroic events of self-sacrifice worth eulogizing, suicide terrorism, a violent type of self-sacrifice, has been more prevalent [clarification needed] in recent decades and drawing wide attention. An estimated 3,500 such ...
The slaughter of an animal sacrifice is not considered a fundamental part of the sacrifice, but rather is an unavoidable preparatory step to the offering of its meat to God; [23] thus, the slaughter may be performed by any Jew, while the other stages of the sacrifice could only be performed by priests. [24]
A sacrificial victim (from Latin victima) is a living being that is killed and offered as a sacrifice. It may refer to: Animal sacrifice, the ritual killing and offering of an animal, usually as part of a religious ritual or to appease or maintain favour with a deity. Hostia, an offering, usually an animal, in a sacrifice.
Shahid (Arabic: شهيد, romanized: Shahīd , fem. شهيدة, pl. شُهَدَاء ), often spelled with other variations such as "shaheed", is an Arabic word for martyr that has been adopted as a loanword in a wide variety of languages and cultures.
The political party thus appoints the person as a sort of "sacrifice" to the stronger opponent. In some cases, fielding a sacrificial lamb candidate can serve as an opportunity for the party to be more creative in choosing a candidate than would normally be considered acceptable in a closely contested race.
Definition of a Vedic sacrifice Yajña, sacrifice, is an act by which we surrender something for the sake of the gods. Such an act must rest on a sacred authority ( āgama ), and serve for man's salvation ( śreyortha ).