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aśvamedha

aśva—medhá m. the horse-sacrifice (a celebrated ceremony, the antiquity of which reaches back to the Vedic period; the hymns, [RV. i, 162] and [163] [= [VS. xxii] seqq.], referring to it, are however of comparatively late origin; in later times its efficacy was so exaggerated, that a hundred such sacrifices entitled the sacrificer to displace Indra from the dominion of Svarga; kings who engaged in it spent enormous sums in gifts to the Brāhmans; it is said that the horse was sometimes not immolated, but kept bound during the ceremony), [VS. xviii, 22]; [TS.]; [Ragh.] &c., (cf. arkāśvamedhá)

2. áśva—medha (áśva-), m. N. of a descendant of Bharata, [RV. v, 27, 4]-[6.]