Aśvamedha sacrifice
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
hundreds of horse sacrifices · the Aśvamedha sacrifice
in the texts
Parāśara Smṛti
The horse sacrifice, offered as an alternative royal means of expiating the killing of a Brāhmaṇa.
Or a king, the lord of the earth, may perform the Aśvamedha sacrifice.
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
The horse sacrifice undertaken by Daśaratha to obtain sons, and later prophesied to be performed by Rāma many times over.
Having offered hundreds of horse sacrifices and many other rites with abundant gold, and having given ten million cows to the learned in proper observance,
'Why do I not perform the Aśvamedha sacrifice to obtain a son?