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| Oct 30, 2015 at 14:23 | comment | added | Srimannarayana K V | Thanks for your clarification. I am downloading all the material you have been providing to me. I will go through them, definitely at one day. | |
| Oct 30, 2015 at 14:17 | comment | added | Keshav Srinivasan♦ | Yes, there have been lots of kings who performed Rajasuya Yagnas, at various times throughout history. One such king is Shakuntala's son Bharata, after whom India is named. Bharata was the ancient ancestor of the Pandavas and the Kauravas, and the reason why the Mahabharata has its name. By the way, the link I gave you was only one page long, but after that page the Aitareya Brahmana lists more kings who performed it, including Bharata. | |
| Oct 30, 2015 at 14:07 | comment | added | Srimannarayana K V | That means not only Yuddhisthira, Janamejaya so many other kings performed RAAJASUYA? | |
| Oct 30, 2015 at 14:03 | comment | added | Keshav Srinivasan♦ | OK, let me provide some context. Indra became king of the Devas after performing 100 Ashwamedha Yagnas. As part of his coronation ceremony, the Devas anointed him with oil. Now when a human king wants to perform a Rajasuya Yagna, he has to conquer the Earth, and as part of the Yagna, the priests anoint his body with oil, in imitation of how Indra was coronated. That's what the "great anointing of Indra" means. It has nothing to do with Indra anointing people. | |
| Oct 30, 2015 at 8:13 | comment | added | Srimannarayana K V | @KeshavSrinivasan: i could not understand the excerpt you provided at that link. So many Indras anointing so many persons and each anointed person going round the earth completely, and conquering everyside. I was puzzled. Can you explain? | |
| Oct 29, 2015 at 2:51 | comment | added | Keshav Srinivasan♦ | That ISKCON article is completely inaccurate. In any case, "somewhere after Mahabharata war" is technically accurate, although it would be "almost 5000 years after the Mahabharata war". As far as the Aitareya Brahmana goes, here is the relevant excerpt: gdurl.com/blWx By the way, I should clarify that Janamejaya didn't invent the four-priest Yagna, Vyasa did. Before the time of Vyasa, Vedic Yagnas were conducted by three priests, a Hotar, an Adhvaryu, and an Udgatri. Vyasa added a fourth priest to the Yagna, but it was Janamejaya who instituted this practice far and wide. | |
| Oct 29, 2015 at 0:24 | comment | added | Srimannarayana K V | @KeshavSrinivasan: Can you provide the exact location in Aitareya Brahmana, where it was stated Arjuna's great-grandson Janamejaya conquered the Earth as part of a Rajasuya Yagna. And Janamejaya was the one who instituted the four-priest Yagna (as opposed to the older three-priest Yagna)? I have a english translation of it in the Internet. | |
| Oct 29, 2015 at 0:10 | comment | added | Srimannarayana K V | @KeshavSrinivasan: Shall I modify my answer on the above lines? | |
| Oct 29, 2015 at 0:05 | comment | added | Srimannarayana K V | @KeshavSrinivasan: Did I say, the decline was immediately after Pandavas? I said "dol worship might have started somewhere after Mahabharata war". I used the word "somewhere", which can be as you said after the advent of Buddhism and Jainism.(or) after Arjuna's great-grandson Janamejaya. The after affects of Mahabharata war can be read at the link veda.harekrsna.cz/encyclopedia/warhistory.htm | |
| Oct 28, 2015 at 17:39 | comment | added | Keshav Srinivasan♦ | As I told you in a previous thread, there was no weakness of administration after the Mahabharata war; the Aitareya Brahmana of the Rig Veda discusses how Arjuna's great-grandson Janamejaya conquered the Earth as part of a Rajasuya Yagna. And Janamejaya was the one who instituted the four-priest Yagna (as opposed to the older three-priest Yagna). So in the period after the Mahabharata war, Vedic Yagnas were flourishing. The decline of Vedic Yagnas came long after that, after the advent of Buddhism and Jainism. | |
| Oct 28, 2015 at 16:20 | history | answered | Srimannarayana K V | CC BY-SA 3.0 |