Daśaratha’s Horse Sacrifice in the Rāmāyaṇa
This article discusses Daśaratha’s horse sacrifice at 1.8–16 in Vālmīki’s Rāmāyaṇa. Daśaratha’s rite seems to be a horse sacrifice, then a son-producing rite, then a porridge-eating rite. The text has been seen as composite, but it works as a unit, using poetic registers and narrative symbols alive...
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Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University
2020-02-01
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| Series: | Orientalia Suecana |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.uu.se/orientaliasuecana/article/view/526 |