○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. arkâśvamedhá) ; (aśvamedha) -kāṇḍa n. N. of ŚBr.xiii (treating of the Aśvamedha)

• -ja m. N. of a king BhP

• -tvá n. the state of an Aśv. ŚBr. x

• -datta m. N. of a king MBh. i, 3838 VP

• -yājín m. engaged in an Aśv. ŚBr. xiii, xiv

• (aśvamedhá) -vat mfn. receiving an Aśv

• ind. as with the Aśv. KātyŚr

• aśvamedhêśvara m. N. of a king MBh. ii, 1066. -2

○medha (áśva-), m. N. of a descendant of Bharata RV. v, 27, 4-6