The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c24.s1.17
The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c24.s1.17
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¹ Dowson, *Classical Dict.*, s. v. *Aśvamedha*. See also Barnett, *Antiquities of India* (1913), pp. 169–71. The rite was ‘known to the Ṛigveda (2. 161, 162)’ : originally it was ‘not improbably a sacrifice offered to the sun’ (Macdonell in *J. R. A. S.*, 1916, p. 624).
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- Ṛgvedasaṃhitā — Sanskrit