అశ్వమేధ యాగం: కూర్పుల మధ్య తేడాలు

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==వేదాంత పురాణాల్లో==
 
The [[Brhadaranyaka Upanishad]] (a mystical appendix to the [[Shatapatha Brahmana]] and likely the oldest of the Upanishads) has a [[creation myth]] where ''{{IAST|Mṛtyu}}'' "Death" takes the shape of a horse, and includes an identification of the Ashvamedha with the Sun:<ref>implicitly, in ''{{IAST|eṣa vā aśvamedho ya eṣa tapati}}'' "verily, that Ashvamedha is that which gives out heat [''tap-'']"</ref>
:Then he became a horse (''ashva''), because it swelled (''ashvat''), and was fit for sacrifice (''medhya''); and this is why the horse-sacrifice is called Ashva-medha [...] Therefore the sacrificers offered up the purified horse belonging to [[Prajapati]], (as dedicated) to all the deities. Verily the shining sun [''ye tapati''] is the Asvamedha, and his body is the year; Agni is the sacrificial fire (''arka''), and these worlds are his bodies. These two are the sacrificial fire and the Asvamedha-sacrifice, and they are again one deity, viz. Death. (BrUp 1.2.7. trans. Müller)
 
The [[Upanishad]]s describe ascetic austerities as an "inner Ashvamedha", as opposed to the "outer" royal ritual performed in the physical world, in keeping with the general tendency of [[Vedanta]] to move away from priestly ritual towards spiritual introspection; verse 6 of the [[Avadhuta Upanishad]] has:
:"Through extreme devotion [''{{IAST|sam-grahaneṣṭi}}''] he [the ascetic] performs ashvamedha within [''{{IAST|anta}}'']. That is the greatest sacrifice [''{{IAST|mahā-makha}}''] and the greatest meditation [''{{IAST|mahā-[[:wikt:yoga|yoga]]}}'']."
 
According to the [[Brahma Vaivarta Purana]] (185.180),<ref>Quoted in {{cite web
| last =Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
| first = A.C.
| title = Srimad-Bhagavatam
| publisher = The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust
| date = 1975
| url = http://vedabase.net/sb/5/7/5/en
| accessdate = 2006-07-31}}</ref> the Ashvamedha is one of five rites forbidden in the [[Kali Yuga]].
 
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