ashvamedha
अश्वमेध ashvamedhaThe royal horse sacrifice, grandest of the solemn Vedic rites, often invoked as a measure of merit.
Where this term appears
- What is Tirtha? Pilgrimage in Hindu Life Temples
To bathe at a certain ford is declared equal to performing an ashvamedha , the costly royal horse-sacrifice.
- A walk down the ghats Treatise
…Dashashwamedh , whose name we have already met: the ghat of the dasha-ashvamedha , the ten horse-sacrifices that Brahma is said to have performed here to welcome Shiva home in the days of Divodasa.
- How Shiva lost his city Treatise
…nce back, performs a great sacrifice: ten horse-sacrifices, the dasha-ashvamedha , on the bank of the river.
- When will Kalki come, and what will he look like? Journal
He performs a great horse sacrifice, an ashvamedha , gives the earth away to the Brahmins, and then, having re-established righteousness on the earth, he retires into the forest.
- The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: the forest of Yajnavalkya Treatise
The horse is the ashvamedha , the royal horse-sacrifice, the most public and expensive rite the old religion knew.