Ashwameda Yajna (অশ্বমেধ যজ্ঞ) is one of the master pieces of vulgarity in Vedic Culture which today's modern Vedic Scholars try to hide giving false translation of Vedic Hymns.
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In this Yajna, a horse is being slain and the Queen has to have sexual intercourse with that dead horse. Let me give reference from scriptures.
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”...king Janamejaya... observed the horse sacrifice... Devi Vapushtama, **the daughter of the king of Kashi, went and slept with the slain horse,** according to the ritual as prescribed..."
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[Harivamsa Purana, Bhavishya Parva 3.5.11-13, tr. A. Purushothaman and A. Harindranath. http://mahabharata-resources.org/harivamsa/bhavishyaparva/hv_3_005.html]
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"....the horse: thereon they 'quiet' (slaughter) it. When the victims have been 'quieted,' the (king's) wives come up....
When the foot-water is ready, they cause the Mahishî to lie down near the horse... **'May the vigorous male, the layer of seed, lay seed!'** she says for the completeness of union."
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[Satapatha Brahmana 13:5:2:1-2; http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbr/sbe44/sbe44107.htm#fn_1007]
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Vedic Scholars mistranslated the word "rathau" as chariots, whereas the word is actually "reto" meaning semen (i.e horse's semen).
In the commentary of Satapatha Brahmana 13:5:2:2, Julius Eggeling correctly put the Sanskrit word "reto":-
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386:2 Nirâyatyâsvasya sisnam mahishy upasthe nidhatte 'vrishâ vâgî retodhâ **reto** dadhâtv' iti mithunasyaiva sarvatvâya.
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[source: http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbr/sbe44/sbe44107.htm#fn_1007]
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Even the Shukla Or White Yajur Veda, 23:20-31 (talking about sexuality with slain and dead horse) is so vulgar, that even Ralph T.H. Griffith has not translated these verses in his translation of Yajur Veda [see the screenshot or you may visit - http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/wyv/wyvbk23.htm]
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Such ritual is so vulgar that it compelled Swami Vivekananda to criticise it too.
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"And in the Vedic Ashvamedha sacrifice worse things would be done.... All the Brâhmanas mention them, and all the commentators admit them to be true. How can you deny them?"
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[Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 6/Epistles - Second Series/LXXI Rakhal/source - https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Complete_Works_of_Swami_Vivekananda/Volume_6/Epistles_-_Second_Series/LXXI_Rakhal]
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