Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Animals

    Sacrificial animals

    animal · 3 works · 3 mentions · 5 anchored passages

    oxen · asses · boar · bull · bulls · ram · sacrificial victim · sheep · the sacrificial animal · the sacrificial victim

    spoken of as

    2 expressions

    Sacrificial animal“Ambarīṣa's”1 mention

    Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa (Sanskrit)

    But from that sacrificer Indra stole the sacrificial animal.
    kanda 1

    the sacrificial animals1 mention

    Barlaam and Josaphat (Greek)

    Whence, royal letters having been dispatched everywhere for all to come together at their abominable festival, one might see the multitudes streaming in, and sheep and oxen and various kinds of animals being led along.
    chapter 29

    in the texts

    Barlaam and JosaphatMedieval · Greek

    The many animals gathered and sacrificed at the pagan festival.

    Whence, royal letters having been dispatched everywhere for all to come together at their abominable festival, one might see the multitudes streaming in, and sheep and oxen and various kinds of animals being led along.
    chapter 29
    Therefore I have come, that we may together hold a feast of thanksgiving, and sacrifice comely young men and fair maidens to the immortal gods, and offer them a hundred bulls and very many animals, so that we may have them, for the time to come also, as unconquered allies, smoothing out the whole of our life.
    chapter 29

    Vālmīki RāmāyaṇaAncient · Sanskrit

    The sacrificial animal stolen by Indra from Ambarīṣa's rite, whose loss necessitates the search for a human substitute.

    But from that sacrificer Indra stole the sacrificial animal.
    kanda 1
    "O king, the sacrificial animal has been stolen and lost today through your lack of vigilance.
    kanda 1
    Hearing the preceptor's words, that king, a bull among men, of great wisdom, sought after the sacrificial victim, offering thousands of cows in exchange.
    kanda 1

    AnabasisClassical · Greek

    Animals used for sacrifice and food during the army's crisis.

    meanwhile the troops provided themselves with food as best they could, by slaughtering oxen and asses of the baggage train.
    chapter 2
    These oaths they sealed by sacrificing a bull, a boar, and a ram over a shield, the Greeks dipping a sword in the blood and the barbarians a lance.
    chapter 2
    For one of his servants had summoned him to see the vital organs that had been taken out of a sacrificial victim, for Clearchus chanced to be engaged in sacrificing.
    parva 5