Srimad Valmiki Ramayanam BALAKANDAM Sarga 12 The horse sacrifice agreed: The Hindu almanac is divided into six seasons of two months each, viz. spring, summer, monsoon, autumn, winter and dew. Long time, after the arrival of sage Rsyasrnga, a delightful spring set in and an urge was felt by emperor Dasaratha to undertake a horse sacrifice for being blessed with a son. The emperor Dasaratha sought the help of Rsyasrnga, who possessed the grandeur of a god, for conducting a horse sacrifice with a view to the propagation of his race as well as the attainment of heaven, the holy sage asked the king to get all the requisites readied. At the request of the emperor to call the Brahmans and priests well versed in the Vedas, minister Sumantra brought the eminent Brahmans, Suyajna, Vamadeva, Jabali, Kasyapa and the family priest Vasistha. Pious Dasaratha told them that he shall propitiate the lord with a horse sacrifice, in order to overcome the agony of absence of male progeny haunting him, and his conviction that his prayers will be answered through the might of spiritual power of sage Rsyasrnga conducting the sacrifice. In the conduct of horse sacrifice it was essential that the horse should wander free for a year, as a sign of his master’s paramount sovereignty acknowledged by all flanking princes. Then the king joyfully spoke to the ministers to let propitiatory rites be elaborately gone through in the proper order of sequence and in accordance with the scriptural ordinance and there be no grievous transgressions in the shape of omission of essential rites.
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