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Ashwamedha yagna
Ashwamedha yagna
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Ashwamedha (horse sacrifice) was one of the most important royal rituals.Ashwamedha was one of the five rites forbidden in the kali yoga, present age.
Ashwa is the symbol of mobility, valour and strength and medha is the symbol of supreme wisdom and intelligence.Actually the natural meaning of ashwamedha is the combination of the valour and strength and illumed the power of intellect.It is the combination of these two for selfless and other centered motives.Which may create the ideal society and nation.This is the reason why the making is called the ashwmedha.
Ashwamedha yagna was performed by all the famous kings of lunar and solar dynasties.Yajna was a very grand and elaborate and prohibitively expensive to perform for a commoner.Only a king would undertake this yagna.And also it indicates the prosperity of ancient india since it have performed well.The yajna begins by releasing the ritual horse I spring season for the current year.The king also undertaken tough diksha every year.
The king may have fought many battles if needed to recover and protect the horse.
Performance:
Ashwamedha was performed by yudhisthira.His brothers guarding the horse s it roamed into the neighbouring kingdom.Ashwamedha is intended to secure prosperity of the kingdom and its subjects.Arjuna defeats all the challenges.The ashwamedha is the highest expression of royal authority is a some sacrifice and incorporates other important sacrifices.
Bloody sacrifice that the domestic animals are killed and the non domestic animals are set free.The stature of the king was not related to the particular part of the world that might have been his kingdom.but in ancient times horse was considered as a noble anda also associated with the military class.
The ritual take place for three days preceded by the sage rishyasringa and vasista.The fat of the sacrificed is then burnt into the ritual fire and remaining parts of the body with spoons were made out of plaksha tree branches.
During the yaga the only offerings were made for the product of wilderness.Death takes the shape of the horse and includes an identification of ashwamedha with the sun.Agni is the sacrificial fire and ashwamedha sacrifice,and they are again one deity i.e. death.
Hinduism:
Ashwamedha yajna is a ritual performed by the queen (particularly by the chief queen) for fertility and also to gain power in the kingdom. Ashwamedha yajna includes the slaughtering of horse and then follows the queen's intercourse in the horse and horse are cut into the pieces and cooked.However some Indus rejects these facts and are giving some interpretations.