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Ashva (Sanskrit: अश्व, IAST: Aśva) is the Sanskrit word for a horse, one of the significant animals finding references in the Vedas as well as later Hindu scriptures. The word is cognate to Avestan 𐬀𐬯𐬞𐬀 ( aspa ), Latin equus , Ancient Greek ἵππος ( hippos ), Proto-Germanic * ehwaz , obsolete Prussian Lithuanian ašvà ...
The horse was then set loose towards the north-east, to roam around wherever it chose, for the period of one year, [8] or half a year, according to some commentators. The horse was associated with the Sun, and its yearly course. [9] If the horse wandered into neighbouring provinces hostile to the sacrificer, they were to be subjugated.
' long-ears' or 'neighing aloud' ') [1] is a seven-headed flying horse, created during the churning of the milk ocean. It is considered the best of horses, as prototype and king of the horses. [1] Uchchaihshravas is often described as a vahana of Indra, but is also recorded to be the horse of Bali, the king of the asuras.
Birching is a form of corporal punishment with a birch rod, typically used to strike the recipient's bare buttocks, although occasionally the back and/or shoulders. Implement [ edit ]
The Ashvamedha or horse sacrifice is a notable ritual of the Yajurveda. As horses were difficult to breed in the Indian climate, they were imported in large numbers, usually from Central Asia, but also from elsewhere. Horse traders are already mentioned in Atharvaveda 2.30.29.
The Rajputs worship their weapons and horses on Navratri, and formerly offered a sacrifice of goat or male water buffalo to a goddess revered as Kuldevi – a practice that continues in some places. [43] [44] The ritual requires slaying of the animal with a single stroke.
The Horses of Neptune, illustration by Walter Crane, 1893.. Horse symbolism is the study of the representation of the horse in mythology, religion, folklore, art, literature and psychoanalysis as a symbol, in its capacity to designate, to signify an abstract concept, beyond the physical reality of the quadruped animal.
An akshauhini (Sanskrit: अक्षौहिणी akṣauhiṇī) is described in the Mahabharata (Adi Parva 2.15-23) as a battle formation consisting of 21,870 chariots (Sanskrit ratha); 21,870 elephants (Sanskrit gaja); 65,610 horses (Sanskrit turaga) and 109,350 infantry (Sanskrit pada sainyam).