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Card #c593IR // #c593Synthesis

When the sacred fires are lost, there is no improvised recovery rite. The answer is punarādheya — re-establishment — and the whole procedure is one line: re-run the founding rite. "We shall explain the re-establishment of the fires. Its procedure has been set forth by the establishment-of-the-fires rite." (praśna 3)

— In our words · Source: The Hiranyakeshi Shrauta Sutra (Vedic tradition)

[Use when]

Use when a system goes down and the room starts designing a bespoke resurrection plan. Run the founding procedure again instead.

[Why it matters]

The system distinguishes failure from novelty. Recovery procedures that invent new steps under stress produce a second, worse failure.

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