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Dadhi-krā is the name of a divine horse or bird, personification of the morning Sun. Devadatta - The white horse of Kalki. Gandharvi, daughter of Kamadhenu, and is the mother of horses (according to the Ramayana). Farasi Bahari - These are magical green Water Horses that live at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. They are depicted as a horse in ...
The Sun's Seventh Horse (Hindi: सूरज का सातवाँ घोड़ा; Suraj Ka Satvan Ghoda) is a 1952 Hindi meta fiction novel by Dharamvir Bharati, one of the pioneers of modern Hindi literature. [1] The novel presents three related narratives about three women: Jamuna, Sati, and Lily.
This book has four sections and 152 chapters, including the anatomy of elephants. During Mahabharata period, Nakula, author of the Ashva-chikitsa, was considered an equine expert, while Sahadeva was a specialist in cattle management. Horses and elephants were vital assets in the never-ending warfare of the ancient world.
The best-known text describing the sacrifice is the Ashvamedhika Parva (Sanskrit: अश्वमेध पर्व), or the "Book of Horse Sacrifice," the fourteenth of eighteen books of the Indian epic poem Mahabharata. Krishna and Vyasa advise King Yudhishthira to perform the sacrifice, which is described at great length. The book ...
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.
Hayagriva (Sanskrit: हयग्रीव IAST hayagrīva, lit. ' horse-necked one ') is a Hindu deity, the horse-headed avatar of Vishnu.The purpose of this incarnation was to slay a danava also named Hayagriva (A descendant of Kashyapa and Danu), who had the head of a horse and the body of a human.
Horse-drawn chariot carved onto the mandapam of Airavatesvara Temple, Darasuram, c. 12th century. Krishna, Arjuna at Kurukshetra, 18th- to 19th-century painting.. The horse has been present in the Indian subcontinent from at least the middle of the second millennium BC, [1] more than two millennia after its domestication in Central Asia. [2]
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).