The sacrifice of the horse (asvamedha) by King Yudhisthira
Year: [1598 - 1605]
From: Ramznama
Location: Louvre, Paris
External link: collections.louvre.fr
Edited by: Chiara Petrolini
Related Documents:
A parallel between Indic and Babylonian Sacrificial Ritual
in: Journal of the American Oriental Society, v. 54 (1934), issue 2: pp.107-128.
L’Aśvamedha: Description du sacrifice solennel du cheval dans le culte védique d'aprés les textes du Yajurveda blanc (Vājasaneyisaṃhitā, Śatapathabrāhmaṇa, Kātyāyanaśrautasûtra)
Louvain - Paris: Paul Geuthner - Istas Imprimeur, 1927.
King Sagara performs a sacrifice (1712)
from: Ramayana, Bala Kanda
British Library, Add. 15295, f.105
Snake Sacrifice [1690]
from: Udaipur, Rajasthan state, Mewar, India
Henri Vever Collection, Freer|Sackler gallery at the Smithsonian Institution
In the palace, Rāvaṇa and his remaining brothers and sons are bowed down by grief and Rāvaṇa wonders how he can ever be victorious in this conflict, when so many demon champions have been slain. Another son, Indrajit, boasts that he will overcome Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa and sets out in his chariot, surrounded by other demons on elephants, horses and in chariots. In a separate chamber (the text actually says on the battlefield), he prepares offerings, seizing a young black goat by the neck, to the god of Fire in order to conjure up his most magical weapons and to make himself invisible. (ca 1653)
from: Ramayana [ms Add. 15297(1), fol. 97]
British Library, London [from Udaipur]