Public Administration in Ancient India c10.129

c10.129

³ The Satapatha-Brāhmana says: “Prajāpati produced the sacrifice. His greatness departed from him, and entered the great sacrificial priests.” XIII. 1, 1, 4. Prof. Eggeling remarks on this passage: “The Asvamedha is thus the immolation (or emptying out) of his own self, so to speak.”