Āśvamedhikaparva

... 497-636), where it is said that Yudhiṣṭhira asked Kṛṣṇa about the dharmas of the four casteṣ This smṛti seems to have been originally taken from the Āśvamedhikaparva of the Mahābhārata, as Mādhava and others cite verses occurring in it as from that parva (vide Parāśaramādhavīya vol. I, part I, pp. 108-110).

...nated a Brāhmaṇa's cow by mistake and became a chameleon because he did not speedily deal with the dispute, is nar- rated in Anuśāsanaparva 6. 38 and Āśvamedhika-parva 90. 99–100 and in the Rāmāyaṇa, Uttarakāṇḍa, chap. 53. 6-26. Not only in the epics, but in some of the Purāṇas also Rājadharma is treated at some length. For ex...

... and, though the whole earth was his, he donated it to others several timeṣ For doing this he must have lived long. Ambarīṣa also is mentioned in the Āśvamedhikaparva ( chap. 31 ) as reciting gāthās ( 7–12 ) expressing the idea that Lobha was the greatest enemy. Ambarīṣa is mentioned as a great king in the Ṛgveda I...

..., as having brought (or established) Fire, as a semi-divine being who received from God himself the laws and regulations, as a king in the Kṛta yuga (Aśvamedhika- parva 4. 2), as the author of a work on Arthaśāstra (Droṇa- parva 7.1). The Manusmṛti (VII. 42) itself states that Manu became king by his disciplined behaviour...

...yodhyā ), his son Kakustha, his son Anenas, whose son was Pṛthu-whose son was Viśvagaśva, whose son was Adri whose son was Yuvanāśva and so oṇ In the Āśvamedhikaparva ( chap. 4 ) the genealogy is (in Kṛtayuga ) Manu-son Prasan- dhi-son Kṣupa-son Ikṣvāku (chap. 4.3–14). If we now turn to the Rāmāyaṇa, chap. 110 of t...

...it is probable that the part of Sundarkāṇḍa which mentions the names of six *pativratas*, the stories about whom occur at length in the Vanaparva and Aśvamedhika-parva, is probably later than the *parvans* (Vanaparva and Aśvamedhika) which are held by several scholars to be later than earlier *parvans* of the great ...

...amedha horse near sage Kapila and wanted to apprehend Kapila as the thief. The story of Uttaṅka, a devoted pupil of Gautama, is narrated at length in Āśvamedhikaparva chap. 55-58 and in Vanaparva chap. 132-33. He married the daughter of Gau- tama and requested Ahalya, Gautama's wife, to accept some present as Gurudak...

...dry-26" id="fnref-polyandry-26">26 The Anuśāsana parva 146. 55 says ‘the husband is the god of a woman, her (sole) relative, her goal’; the Aśvamedhika-parva 90. 51 declares ‘the husband is the highest deity.’ ‘The father gives only what is limited, the brother and the son do the same; what woman would not worshi...

... made to the sixth part of the day as a somewhat late hour for taking one's meal (and as making one hungry). Vide Vanaparva 179. 16, 180. 16, 293. 9, Aśvamedhika parva 90. 26-27.¹⁷ The principal matters t...

... Vaṣ Dh. S. IX, Manu VI. 1-32, Yāj. III. 45-55, Viṣṇu Dh. S. 95, Vaik. X. 5, Śaṅkha-smṛti VI. 1-7 (in verse), Śāntiparva 245. 1-14 and Anuśāsana 142, Aśvamedhika-parva 46. 9-16, Laghu-Viṣṇu III, Kūrmapurāṇa (uttarārdha chap. 27) contain numerous rules about forest hermitṣ The principal points are stated below with a few refe...

In the Aśvamedhika parva of the Mahābhārata Aśvamedha is described at some length. It is probable that in the epic only the popular elements and a few of the religious rites ...

...n; procedure of 1229-1236; sin removed by persons bathing in the water in which the king bathed at the end of Aśvamedha 1236; yūpas were 21 in, 1233. Āśvamedhikaparva 72, 77, 88, 361, 439, 562, 643, 645, 710, 847n, 923 &c.; describes Aśvamedha at great length 1237-38. Aśvapati Kekaya, declared that in his kingdom ther...

... that the Moon and the Sun are seized (i.e. eclipsed) at an unusual season (apartaṇī) or simultaneously by Rāhu (vide Bhīṣmaparva 3. 28 and 32-33 and Āśvamedhikaparva 77. 15) ^{Read in context → 77.15}

....’⁵⁵ The Āśvamedhika-parva (62. 2-5) states that Vāsudeva offered śrāddha to his sister’s son Abhimanyu and donated to sixty thousand brāhmaṇas, gold, cows, bed-steads, clothes and fed t...

... sin and after permission 94, 131, to be performed only by a king 91, 131, verses recited at time of making crowned queen get up from dead horse 200ṇ Āśvamedhikaparva 535 Aśvapati Kekaya, a king, boasts that no drinker of madya dwelt in his kingdom 20 Atharvans, a class of pitṛs 192 Atharvaśiras, purifies from sins 45,...

...juna who had come to Manipura for protecting the Aśvamedha horse, was killed by Babhruvāhana and restored to life with the help of a Sañjīvana jewel (Āśvamedhikaparva chap. 79–81). Serpents came to be associated with both Viṣṇu and Śiva. Viṣṇu is said to sleep on the hoods of Śeṣa-nāga (Vanaparva 203. 12 and 272. 38–...

...nd pain), remarks that the 20th *guṇa* beyond the nineteenth is Kāla and that one should know these twenty to be the source and end of all beingṣ The Aśvamedhika-parva describes (chap. 45) the wheel of Time in an elaborate metaphorical way (verses 1-9) and remarks that the man who well knows the action of Kāla and i...

...ing out the order of the weekdays instead of 24 divisions systeṃ The Indians did not calculate their day from noon or night but from the morning. The Aśvamedhika- parva ^{Read in context →}

...est dharma) occur very frequently in the Mahābhārata ¹⁵²³ (e. g. in Droṇaparva 192. 38, Śānti 265. 6, 329. 18, Anuśāsana 115, 25, 116. 38, Āśvamedhikaparva 28. 16-18, 43. 21). Śāntiparva (296. 22-24) enumerates thirteen virtues common to all men, of which freedom from cruelty and ahimsā are the first two. Vasiṣṭha...

...truction of evil-doers and the establishment of piety'. The same idea occurs in some of the *parvans* of the Mahābhārata, as in Vanaparva 272. 71 and Aśvamedhika-parva 54. 13. None of the ten avatāras, except those of Kṛṣṇa and probably Rāma, ('Rāmaḥ śastrabhr̥tām-ahaṁ', Gītā X. 31) are, however, mentioned by name in the B...

... to Sānkhya and no spiritual power equal to Yoga; it further says that Yoga is eightfold (verse 7) and in verse 9 mentions Dhāraṇā and Prāṇāyāma. The Āśvamedhikaparva 19. 17 (Ch. eḍ) appears to refer to pratyāhāra. ^{Read in context → 19.17}

...mashastra-110">110 and is in accordance with the plural 'dhāraṇāsu ca yogyatā manasaḥ' (in Y. S. II. 53) employed by Patañjali himself. The Āśvamedhikaparva also employs the plural 'dhāraṇāsu'. Vide the Śāntiparva (cr. eḍ 188. 8-12 = Ch. eḍ 195.8). The Yājñavalkyasmṛti ^{Read in context →}

...ces performed by Puṣya- mitra, Bhāvanāga, Pravarasena I, Samudragupta and other kings 1028–29; supposed to remove the consequences of all sins, 1589ṇ Āśvamedhikaparva, 127, 467, 683, 744, 945 (on ahiṁsā), 994, 1371, 1401, 1446, 1519, 1537n, 1571. Aśvapati Kaikeya, boast of, in Chāṇ Up. 943, 1584n; ex- pounds Vaiśvā...

kāla ( vide under Kalpa, Man-vantara, pralaya, Rudra, measures of Time, yuga); Āśvamedhikaparva has an elaborate metaphorical description of wheel of K. 467; Bhagavad-gītā identifies K. with Kṛṣṇa 467; derived from root ‘Kal’ in Bhagavad-gītā, 4...

...an image) 1024; Paurāṇika proce-dure to be followed in 1024. *Pratyāhāra*, 5th aṅga of Yoga 1444–5; derivation of the word 1444n; in Yogasūtra and in Āśvamedhikaparva 1401; means withdrawal of senses from sense objects on account of restraint of mind .1444; several definitions of 1444–5. Pravāhaṇa Jaivali, a *rājanya*, ...

...of views about the number of the aṅgas of yoga, 1419 and n; discipline of the mind known to Āp. Dh. S. 1390; doctrine of Y. dilated upon in Śānti and Aśvamedhika parvan 1399-1405; eightfold Y. acc. to Śāntiparva 1400; first signs of the effectiveness of Y. practice acc. to Śv. Up. 1111; five bhūmis (conditions or st...