Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v1.c17.s4.69
Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v1.c17.s4.69
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v1.c17.s4.69
The Asvamedha. — The Asvamedha was practised on the Ganges and Sarju by the Solar princes [64], twelve hundred years before Christ, as by the Getae in the time of Cyrus ; “ deeming it right,” says Herodotus [i. 216] “ to offer the swiftest of created to the chief of uncreated beings ” : and this worship and sacrifice of the horse has been handed down to the Rajput of the present day. A description of this grand ceremony shall close these analogies.