- The
Ashvamedha (Sanskrit: अश्वमेध, romanized:
aśvamedha) was a
horse sacrifice ritual followed by the Śrauta
tradition of
Vedic religion. It was used...
- (family priest) Tura Kāvaṣeya
consecrated him as king and
officiated his
aśvamedha (horse sacrifice). It also
states that at one of his
sacrifices he did...
- dedicated) to all the deities.
Verily the
shining sun [ye tapati] is the
Asvamedha, and his body is the year; Agni is the
sacrificial fire (arka), and these...
- as the Puranas. The
Hindu scripture Brahma Vaivarta Purana forbids the
Asvamedha Horse sacrifice in this Kali Yuga. However, the
perception that animal...
- ****ds of
coins from this area, and the
possibility of the
performance of
Asvamedha at Prayāga by
Samudragupta bring out the fact that at
least in the early...
-
celebrated his
achievements with the
performance of an
Asvamedha (horse sacrifice). The
Asvamedha performed by
Samudragupta was of an
elaborate type, denoted...
- Mahabharata.
Bhima arriving at the
castle of
Dvaraka to
invite Krishna to the
asvamedha. Krishna, who is with his wife Satyabhama,
pretends not to hear.....
- Janamejaya, Bhimasena,
Ugrasena and Śrutasena. All of them
performed the
Asvamedha Yajna. His
bodily existence ended due to the
curse of the sage Shringi...
- 1st-century BCE, the puja tradition, and a king who had
completed the
Vedic Asvamedha sacrifice. The
inscription also
confirms the ****ociation of the two deities...
-
sanctity attached to the
place was such that Rāma
desired to
celebrate Aśvamedha sacrifice in this forest, and accordingly,
placing his
younger brother...
