Aswamedha : ‘Horse-Sacrifice’, performed to establish supreme sovereignty over all earth. Symbolically, it is the offering one’s vital with all its powers, impulses, desires, enjoyments, to the Divine to master one physical nature.
... primitive minds or of replacing barbarous superstitions by civilised mysticism. The Aswamedha or Horse-Sacrifice is, as we shall see, taken as the symbol of a great spiritual advance, an evolutionary movement, almost, out of the dominion of apparently material forces into a higher spiritual freedom. The Horse of the Aswamedha is, to the author, a physical figure representing, like some algebraical symbol... is to lay a foundation; it is for the thinker to build the superstructure. The Horse of the Worlds The Upanishad begins with a grandiose abruptness in an impetuous figure of the Horse of the Aswamedha. "OM" it begins "Dawn is the head of the horse sacrificial. The sun is his eye, his breath is the wind, his wide-open mouth is Fire, the universal energy; Time is the self of the horse sacrificial ...
... kingdoms and peoples, from sea to sea. This ideal was supported, like everything else in Indian life, with a spiritual and religious sanction. They set up as the outward symbol of this unity, the Aswamedha and Rajasuya sacrifices, and made it the dharma of a powerful King, his royal and religious duty, to attempt the fulfilment of this ideal. He was not allowed by the Dharma to destroy the liberties ...
... of the centripetal tendency in India go back to the earliest times of which we have record and are typified in the ideal of the Samrat or Chakravarti Raja and the military and political use of the Aswamedha and Rajasuya sacrifices. The two great national epics might almost have been written to illustrate this theme; for the one recounts the establishment of a unifying dharmarajya or imperial reign of ...
... have sacrificial capacity for me, by this let me be provided with a body." That which has expressed power & being, that is fit for the sacrifice. This verily is the secret of the Aswamedha & he knoweth indeed the Aswamedha who thus knoweth it. He gave him free course & thought, then after a year (a fixed period of time) he dedicated him to the self. [ The rest of this section was not translated. ] ...
... kingdoms and peoples, from sea to sea. This Page 434 ideal they supported, like everything else in Indian life, with a spiritual and religious sanction, set up as its outward symbol the Aswamedha and Rajasuya sacrifices, and made it the dharma of a powerful King, his royal and religious duty, to attempt the fulfilment of the ideal. He was not allowed by the Dharma to destroy the liberties ...
... of the centripetal tendency in India go back to the earliest times of which we have record and are typified in the ideal of the Samrat or Chakravarti Raja and the military and political use of the Aswamedha and Rajasuya sacrifices. The two great national epics might almost have been written to illustrate this theme; for the one recounts the establishment of a unifying dharmarājya or imperial reign ...
... his Ashram.) 7. Kusa and Luva come to Ayodhya, and Sita enters the earth. (In the last episode Kusa and Lava, twin brothers born to Sita arrive at Sri Rama's magnificent sacrifice called Aswamedha Page 29 and chant the great poem depicting the heroic life of Sri Rama, casting a spell on the listeners — the citizens of Ayodhya and all who have assembled for the sacrifice. Sri Rama ...
... go back to the earliest times of which we have record and are typified in the ideal of the Samrat or Chakravarti Raja and the Page 128 military and political use of the Aswamedha and Rajasuya sacrifices. The two great national epics might almost have been written to illustrate this theme; for the one recounts the establishment of a unifying dharmarajya or imperial reign of ...
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