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12 - Aswa-Medha (Sacrifice of the Horse) - Mahabharata · Philosophy and Faith

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  Speaker 1: Book twelve, A Swamid Sacrifice of the Whorse, the real
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  Speaker 1: epic answered the ore and the funerals of the deceased warriors.
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  Speaker 1: Much of what follows in the original Sanskrit poem is
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  Speaker 1: either episodical or comparatively recent interpolation. The great and venerable
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  Speaker 1: warrior Vishma, still lying on his death bed, discourses for
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  Speaker 1: the instruction of the newly crowned histir on various subjects
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  Speaker 1: like the duties of kings, the duties of the fore castes,
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  Speaker 1: and the four stages of life. He repeats the discourses
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  Speaker 1: of other saints of Rigu and Varutwaj of Manu and
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  Speaker 1: Rehspathy of Bias and Suk of Yegabalka, and Janak of
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  Speaker 1: Narad and Narayan. He explained Sanchia philosophy and Yoga philosophy
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  Speaker 1: and lays down the laws of marriage, the laws of succession,
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  Speaker 1: the rules of gifts, and the rules of funeral rites.
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  Speaker 1: He preaches the cult of Krishna and narrates endless legions, tales,
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  Speaker 1: traditions and means about sieges and saints, gods and mortal kings.
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  Speaker 1: All this is told in two books containing about twenty
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  Speaker 1: two thousand couplets and forming nearly one fourth of the
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  Speaker 1: entire Sanskrit epic. The reason of adding all this episodical
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  Speaker 1: and comparatively recent matter to the ancient epic is not
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  Speaker 1: far to seek. The epic became more popular with the
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  Speaker 1: nation at large than dry codes of law and philosophy,
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  Speaker 1: and generations of brahmanical writers labored therefore to insert in
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  Speaker 1: the epic itself their rules of caste and moral conduct,
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  Speaker 1: their laws and philosophy. There is no more venerable character
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  Speaker 1: in the epic than Vishma, and these rules and laws
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  Speaker 1: have therefore been supposed to come from his lips on
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  Speaker 1: the solemn occasion of his death, as a storehouse of
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  Speaker 1: ideal laws and traditions and moral rules. These episodes are invaluable,
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  Speaker 1: but they form no part of the real epic. They
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  Speaker 1: are not a portion of the leading story of the epic,
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  Speaker 1: and we pass them by Vishma dies and discrimated. But
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  Speaker 1: the endless exposition of law's lesens and moral rules is
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  Speaker 1: not yet over. Krishna himself takes up the task in
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  Speaker 1: a new book, And as he has done once before
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  Speaker 1: in the Vagavad Gita, he now once more explains to
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  Speaker 1: Urchin in the Anugita the great truths about soul and emancipation,
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  Speaker 1: creation and the will of life, true knowledge and rights
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  Speaker 1: and penance. The adventures of the sei Zutanka, whom Krishna
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  Speaker 1: meets then take up a good many pages. All this
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  Speaker 1: forms no part of the real epic, and we pass
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  Speaker 1: it by. It is to has in the meantime been
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  Speaker 1: crowned King of the Kurus at Hastinapur, and the posthumous
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  Speaker 1: child of a Vimenu is named Parikshit and is destined
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  Speaker 1: to succeed to the throne of the Kurus. But it
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  Speaker 1: is there's mind is still troubled with the thoughts of
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  Speaker 1: the carnage of the war, of which he considers himself guilty,
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  Speaker 1: and a great saint. Viaz advises the performance of thus
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  Speaker 1: dom or the sacrifice of the horse, for the expiration
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  Speaker 1: of the scene. The sacrifice of the horse was an
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  Speaker 1: ensign Hintu custom practiced by kings exercising sucerine powers over
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  Speaker 1: surrounding kings. A horse was let free and was allowed
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  Speaker 1: to wander from place to place, accompanied by the king's guard.
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  Speaker 1: If any neighboring king ventured to detain the animal, it
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  Speaker 1: was a signal for war. If no king ventured to
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  Speaker 1: restrain the venderer, it was considered a tacit mark of
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  Speaker 1: submission to the owner of the animal. And when the
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  Speaker 1: horse returned from its peregrinations, it was sacrificed to the
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  Speaker 1: Great pomp and splendor, at a feast to which all
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  Speaker 1: neighboring kings were invited. It Ister allowed the sacrificeing horse
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  Speaker 1: to ender at will, and Urchin accompanied it. Wherever the
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  Speaker 1: horse was stopped, urgin fought and conquered, and thus proclaimed
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  Speaker 1: the supremacy of itstir over all neighboring potentates. After various
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  Speaker 1: wars and adventures in various regions, Urginy at last returned
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  Speaker 1: victories with the steet to hastinappur and the sacrifice commenced.
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  Speaker 1: The description of the sacrifice is somewhat artificial and concerns itself,
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  Speaker 1: which writes in ceremonious details and gifts to Brahman's and
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  Speaker 1: altogether bears unmistakable evidence of the interpolating hound of later
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  Speaker 1: priestly writers. Nevertheless, we cannot exclude from this translation of
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  Speaker 1: the leading incidents of the epic, the last great in
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  Speaker 1: crowning act of it is Stir now anointed Monarcho Kuru Land.
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  Speaker 1: The portion translated in this book forms sections eighty five
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  Speaker 1: and parts of sections eighty seven and eighty nine of
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  Speaker 1: Book fourteen. Of the original text, one the gathering victor
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  Speaker 1: of a hundred battles urgent Bantha's homeward way falling steel,
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  Speaker 1: the sacred charger free to wander as it may, strolling
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  Speaker 1: minstrels to it. Disteur spake of their returning Steeth spake
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  Speaker 1: of Virgin wenting homeward with the Victor's crown of mead,
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  Speaker 1: and they sang of Virgin's triumphs in Guanhar's distant vale
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  Speaker 1: on the banks of Brahmaputra, and in Sindu's rocky dale.
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  Speaker 1: Twelfth day came of Mark's bright moon, and auspicious was
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  Speaker 1: the star. Neiher came the victor region from his conquest.
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  Speaker 1: Sneer and far Gudistyr called his brothers faithful twins, and
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  Speaker 1: Vema true spake to them in gentle accents, and his
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  Speaker 1: words were grave and few. Wema now returneth herchein with
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  Speaker 1: di steet from many a fray. So they tell me,
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  Speaker 1: noble brother who have met him on the way and
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  Speaker 1: the time of Asomida. Day by days drawing nigh. Mark's
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  Speaker 1: full moon is approaching and the winter passed by. Let
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  Speaker 1: the Brahmas worst invade us choose the sacrificial side four
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  Speaker 1: of Fist of many nations and performance of the ride
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  Speaker 1: Vima heart of ever, June's coming hero with the curly
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  Speaker 1: hair and to deeds. TR's mandate did to let some
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  Speaker 1: hot repair. Brahmins forged in sacrifices, cunning architects of fame,
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  Speaker 1: builders of each various altar with the son of Pritha
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  Speaker 1: came and the uppon a level greensword mesre fort the
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  Speaker 1: sacred side laid it out with halls and pathways for
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  Speaker 1: the sacrificial ride. Mansion's grace to jem and jewel. Round
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  Speaker 1: the bright raina shown palaces of golden luster glinted in
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  Speaker 1: the morning sun. Guilt and blazon two devices lofty columns
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  Speaker 1: stood around graceful arches. Gold surmounted spent the consecrated ground.
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  Speaker 1: Gay pavilions rose in beauty round the sacrificial site for
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  Speaker 1: the queens of crowned monarchs went into the holy ride.
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  Speaker 1: Humbler dwellings rose for brownmans, priests of learning and of
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  Speaker 1: fame come to view it Isterzaegia and to blessed IST's name.
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  Speaker 1: Messengers with kindly greetings went to monarch's far renowned asked
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  Speaker 1: them to Asthena city to the consecrated ground and to
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  Speaker 1: please the grated di st came each king and chief
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  Speaker 1: dane bold with their slaves and dark eyed damsels, arms
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  Speaker 1: and horses, gems and gold, came and found their royal
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  Speaker 1: welcome in pavilions rich and high, and the sea like
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  Speaker 1: voice of nations smoke dachoing vault of sky with his
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  Speaker 1: greetings Dotty dist for his chief and king of man,
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  Speaker 1: calling drinks and sumptuous wines. Beds of regal pride or
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  Speaker 1: dame stables filled with corn and barley added milk and
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  Speaker 1: lazier's cane greet the monarch's warlike taskers and the steets
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  Speaker 1: with flowing maine. Moonies from their hermitages to the sacred
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  Speaker 1: Yeggya cane rishies from the grove and forest, uttering Brahmha's
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  Speaker 1: holy name. Famed Acharias vorsed in vadas to the city,
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  Speaker 1: held their way Brahmacharis with cross girdle, chanting rick or
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  Speaker 1: summon lay welcomed Kuru's pious monarch, saint and sage and
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  Speaker 1: man of grace, and with gentle condescension, showed its priest
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  Speaker 1: his fitting plays, skilled mechanics, cunning artists raised the structures
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  Speaker 1: for the riot, and with every needful object graced the
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  Speaker 1: sacrificial side. Every duty thus completed joyfully dister's mind, and
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  Speaker 1: they blessed his faithful brothers with an elder's blessing. Skind
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  Speaker 1: two the fisting man in nations are assembled, aimes are
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  Speaker 1: sung by Saint and sage under learned disputations. Keen disputants
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  Speaker 1: often engage, and the conquours of the monarchs view. A
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  Speaker 1: splendor of the riot like the glorious kyabinra is the
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  Speaker 1: sacrifice of side. Bright festoons and flaming streamers over the
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  Speaker 1: golden arches, hung groups of men and gay dressed women
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  Speaker 1: form a bright and joyous charm. Gears of gold and
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  Speaker 1: sparkling waters, vessels reach it, gold and laithe costly cups
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  Speaker 1: and golden vases, cruze, welt and pride displayed sacrifices. Stakes
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  Speaker 1: of timber with their golden fastenings grazed consecrated by the
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  Speaker 1: mantra are in sumptuous order placed countless creatures of the
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  Speaker 1: wide art fishes from the lake and flood, buffaloes and
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  Speaker 1: bolts from pasture, beast subpray from jungle wood, birds in
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  Speaker 1: every eggborn creature, insects that from moisture spring. Thenizens of
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  Speaker 1: cave and mounting for the sacrifice they bring. Noble chiefs
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  Speaker 1: and mighty monarchs gaze in wonder on the side filled
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  Speaker 1: with every living object. Corn and cattle for the ride,
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  Speaker 1: card and cake and sweet confection are for feasting. Brahman spread,
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  Speaker 1: and the one hundred thousand people are with sumptuous wines,
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  Speaker 1: fed with deccans of the rain, cloud drum and trumpet
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  Speaker 1: raised their voice speak it is TIR's noble bounty, bid
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  Speaker 1: the sons of many joys. Day by day the holy
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  Speaker 1: Yekiya grows in splendor and in joy, rise in hellets,
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  Speaker 1: feeds all commerce made and matron man and boy, Lakes
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  Speaker 1: of card and lakes of butter speak its tears, bounteous feast.
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  Speaker 1: Nations of the Jambo Deepa share it greatest and the least.
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  Speaker 1: For a hundred diverse races from a hundred regions, came
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  Speaker 1: eighth of good it Dister's bounty, bless the goody dister's
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  Speaker 1: name and the thousand proud attendants gay with earrings. Garlant
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  Speaker 1: Grast carried food unto the feeders, and the sweet confections
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  Speaker 1: placed Vyan's feet for crowned monarchs, where unto Brahmans, given
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  Speaker 1: drinks of rich and cooling fresh like the nectar drink
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  Speaker 1: of heaven tree, sacrifice of animals. Victor of a hundred
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  Speaker 1: battles Urgin came with conquering steed Vias herald of thebaidas
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  Speaker 1: bad the holy rite proceed for the day is comedisttir.
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  Speaker 1: Let the sacrifice be done. Let the priests repeat the
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  Speaker 1: mantra golden as the morning sun, treefold bounty as by
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  Speaker 1: thy presence, and the treefold merit gain for thy wealth
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  Speaker 1: of gold sample freely deduction Arraim made a treefold rich
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  Speaker 1: performance purified a darkening stain. Blood of warriors and of
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  Speaker 1: kinsmen slaughtered on the gory plain made the yagaspure. Evolution
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  Speaker 1: was d of the cruel scene, and the meat of
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  Speaker 1: sacrificers made the good it is deir Win Vias spoke,
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  Speaker 1: and good it is to took the dicksha of the
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  Speaker 1: right and commenced das chamid, gladdening every living white round
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  Speaker 1: the altar Soli lusure move the priests with sacred all
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  Speaker 1: serve not from the rule of duty, failed not in
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  Speaker 1: the sacred love. Turn the right of pure Brabaghia. With
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  Speaker 1: the pious human lay to the task of Avisheba. Priests
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  Speaker 1: and Brahmans led the way and the holy soma drinkers
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  Speaker 1: press the sacred soma plant and perform the pure savannah
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  Speaker 1: with the solemn summoned chant. Bounty weights on squalid hunger,
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  Speaker 1: Gifts dispel the timid fear, Gold revives the poor and lowly.
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  Speaker 1: Mercy wipes the mourner's tear. Tender care relieves the streacken
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  Speaker 1: by the gracious king's command. Charity, with loving sweetness, spreads
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  Speaker 1: her smile over all the land day by day. Alsmither
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  Speaker 1: Doth with sacred rights, proceed day by day on royal bounty,
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  Speaker 1: poor and grateful myriad's feet, and the deptin seak with
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  Speaker 1: AGAs strict in vow and rich in lore seige. Preceptors
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  Speaker 1: holy teachers grew in virtue evermore. Six good stakes of
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  Speaker 1: Bilva timber, six of hard Kadi rude, six of seasons
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  Speaker 1: serva vernin on the place of ye gestood. Two were
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  Speaker 1: made of de Vadaru pine that on Himalay grows. One
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  Speaker 1: was made of wood of Slatia, which the sacrificer knows.
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  Speaker 1: Other steaks of golden lusser quainted curious carving done draped
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  Speaker 1: in silk and gold brocaded like Darsam majer shorn. And
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  Speaker 1: the consecrated altar, built and raised of bricks of gold,
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  Speaker 1: shown in splendor like the altar Daksha belt in days
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  Speaker 1: of old, eighteen cubit square, the structure forty players of
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  Speaker 1: brick in height with a specious wing triangle like an
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  Speaker 1: eagle in its flight. Beasts whose flesh is pure and wholesome,
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  Speaker 1: dwellers of the lake or sky. Priest society varied, offering
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  Speaker 1: to each heavenly power on high bolts of various breed
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  Speaker 1: and color, steeds of metal true, and tried other creatures
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  Speaker 1: full three hundred to the many stakes were tied. They
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  Speaker 1: verishes viewed the feasting. Sweet gundrbs woke the song ubsaas
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  Speaker 1: like gleamps of sunlight on the greensward cheeped along kidners
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  Speaker 1: and kim Perusha's mingled in the holy rite sit Thus
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  Speaker 1: of austere stpannons stood around the sacred side. Biaza's great
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  Speaker 1: and gifted peopils, who the Vedas have compiled, gazed Upunda
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  Speaker 1: Somida on the wondrous Egia smiled from the bright atrial mansions.
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  Speaker 1: Heavenly Rishi Narad came Chitrasina woke the music singer of
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  Speaker 1: celestial fame, cheered by modern mortal music Brahmans to their
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  Speaker 1: task in climb and Itistru's fame and virtue, which a
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  Speaker 1: brighter lusts are shine for sacrifice of the horse, birds
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  Speaker 1: and beasts. Thus emolted, dressed and cooked, provide the food
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  Speaker 1: done before the sacred charger. Priests in rank and order
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  Speaker 1: stood and by rules of beda guided slew the horse
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  Speaker 1: of noble Breathe placed dropody Queen of Yakia. By the
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  Speaker 1: slain and lifeless teeth, hymns and gifts and pure devotion
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  Speaker 1: sanctified the noble Queen, Woman's wort and stainless virtue, woman's
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  Speaker 1: pride and wisdom came. Priests with holy contemplation, cooked the
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  Speaker 1: horse with pious right, and the steam of welcome fragrance
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  Speaker 1: sanctified the sacred side good. It is Girandi's brothers by
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  Speaker 1: the rules by RICHI spoke piously in health, the fragrance
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  Speaker 1: and the sin destroying smoke, several limbs and sacred fragments
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  Speaker 1: of the courser duly dressed priests uppon the bleazing altar
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  Speaker 1: as a pious offering placed and then since bird of
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  Speaker 1: beathaus Bias raised his voice in song, blessed is their
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  Speaker 1: Kuruz Monarch and the many nation trong five gifts unto
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  Speaker 1: Brahmans gave it istir countless nishkas of bright gold unto seize,
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  Speaker 1: and saintly weas all this realm and wealth untold. But
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  Speaker 1: the bord and ancient Rishi, who the Holy Bedas spake,
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  Speaker 1: rendered back the monarch's presence artly gift he might not
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  Speaker 1: take diyin his cruse ancient empire rule the nations of
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  Speaker 1: the earth, gods of destined to ys Monarch from the
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  Speaker 1: moment of die birth, gold and wealth and rich Dakshina,
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  Speaker 1: let the priests and Brahman's horde be dyed to rule
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  Speaker 1: the subjects as their father and their lord. Krishnatiu, in
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  Speaker 1: gentle accents to the doubting monarch, said wells, speak a
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  Speaker 1: word of wisdom, and his mandate be obeyed. From the
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  Speaker 1: Rishi good it is Tir then received a cruel land
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  Speaker 1: with a treeful gift of riches, gladdens all the priestly band,
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  Speaker 1: pious priests and grateful nations to their distant regions went
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  Speaker 1: and the share of presents. Weas Tod ancient Prita' sent
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  Speaker 1: fame and virtue cruse monarch. But the zamidhwinds and the
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  Speaker 1: right of pure ablution clingses all. It disturirs scenes, and
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  Speaker 1: his stands amid his brothers, brightly beaming, pure and high,
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  Speaker 1: even as Indra stands encircled by the dwellers of the
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  Speaker 1: sky and the concourse of the monarchs. Grace it is
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  Speaker 1: to his regal miThe as the radiance stars and planets
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  Speaker 1: graced the stillness of the night, JEMs and jewels in
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  Speaker 1: his bounty, golden garments, rich and rare, gave it dis
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  Speaker 1: teir to each monarch slaves and damselves, passing fair loving
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  Speaker 1: gifts to dear relations, gave the king of righteous fame,
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  Speaker 1: and the grateful parting monarchs blessed Distir's sallowed name last
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  Speaker 1: of all, with many tear drops. Krishna mounts his lofty car,
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  Speaker 1: faithful still in joy or sorrow, faithful still in peace
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  Speaker 1: or oar Origin's comrade, Wema's helper, Goodstir's friend of your.
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  Speaker 1: Krishna leaves Estina's mansions for the Seagar Dwarka's shore, end
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  Speaker 1: of Book twelve.