Vedic Domestic Fire – Ritual: Sthalipaka (Its Performance and Exposition)

Musashi Tachikawa: Professor Emeritus, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan (Ph. D., Harward University; D. Litt. Nagoya University) formerly taught at Nagoya University (1970-92), then worked as a Professor at the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka, Japan (1992-2003) and now is a Professor in Aichi Gakuin University, Japan. His publications include The Structure of the World of Udayana's Realism (Reidel, 1980), a Hindu Worship Service in Sixteen Steps, Sodasa-upacara-puja (Bulletin of the National Museum of Ethnology, 8:1 [1983], An Introduction to the Philosophy of Nagarjuna (Motilal Banarsidass, 1997), Indian Fire ritual (Motilal Banarsidass, 2001) and A Ngor Mandala Collection (together with Lokesh Chandra and S. Watanabe).