Sacrifice
Monday, August 10, 2020
THERE is a story—fictional of course—from a kingdom in the Dakkhana hills of south western India in the first century CE, about Subhrata.
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He was a boy of 15 who cared for a white stallion with black spots which, according to religious requirements, was being prepared for the Aśvamedha sacrifice. The horse was called Agnisakha, ‘wind of fire’.
King Satakarni I, the third king of the Satavahana dynasty, wanted to hold a large sacrificial rite like the one Yudhistira held as told in the Ashvamedha Parwa. And when the time determined by the stars came to pass, the priests
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