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अश्वमेध n. त्र्यरुणकृत दानस्तुती में का एक राजा [ऋ. ५.२७.४-६] ।
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अश्व—मेध m. am. the horse-sacrifice (a celebrated ceremony, the antiquity of which reaches back to the Vedic period; the hymns, [RV. i, 162 and 163] [= [VS. xxii seqq.] ], referring to it, are however of comparatively late origin; in later times its efficacy was so exaggerated, that a hundred such sacrifices entitled the sacrificer to displace इन्द्र from the dominion of स्वर्ग; kings who engaged in it spent enormous sums in gifts to the Brāhmans; it is said that the horse was sometimes not immolated, but kept bound during the ceremony), [VS. xviii, 22] ; [TS.] ; [Ragh.] &c., (
cf. अर्का-श्वमेध॑)
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m The sacrifice of a horse-ceremony.
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अश्व—मेध m. b (
अ॑श्व-) m.N. of a descendant of भरत, [RV. v, 27, 4-6.]
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