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 expressionsSacrificial animal“Ambarīṣa's”1 mention
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa (Sanskrit)
"O king, the sacrificial animal has been stolen and lost today through your lack of vigilance.
the sacrificial animals1 mention
Barlaam and Josaphat (Greek)
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.
in the texts
Barlaam and Josaphat
The many animals gathered and sacrificed at the pagan festival.
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.
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.
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
The sacrificial animal stolen by Indra from Ambarīṣa's rite, whose loss necessitates the search for a human substitute.
"O king, the sacrificial animal has been stolen and lost today through your lack of vigilance.
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.
But from that sacrificer Indra stole the sacrificial animal.
Anabasis
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.
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.