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The Ashvamedha (Sanskrit: ''aśvamedhá''), horse sacrifice, is a Agnicayana ritual of Śrauta. ==Broad outline== A stallion is selected and released for a year of wandering in the company of a hundred or more warriors The king remains at home and turns over rulership to the adhvaryu who makes daily ghee libations into a footprint of the absent horse. The hotr recites evening narrations of the exploits of past kings. After almost a year the horse is guided home. Soma pressings and various animal sacrifices are performed during the building of a great altar. The four major priests symbolically receive the four quarters of space and the four royal queens. On the second of three pressing days, the horse, a hornless goat and gayal are dedicated to Prajapati. Other animals are dedicated to a variety of deities. Three of the queens wash the horse and adorn it with jewelry and ghee. The horse, hornless goat, and gayal are asphyxiated. The chief queen lies down and the adhvaryu guides the horses penis against the queen's vagina. The animals are dismembered. The king ascends the throne while the Purusha Sukta is recited. The adhvaryu takes the dismembered parts of the three chief animals and assembles them on the ground with the head of the goat facing west, the other two animals facing east. All the parts are then offered into the ahavaniya. The adhvaryu makes three additional offerings into the gayal’s throat, on the right front hoof of the horse, and into an iron bowl. A final offering is made using a leper who stands in water as an altar. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「ashvamedha」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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