In many cases, the more controversial practices of the Ashvamedha Yajna aren't seen in other texts like Mahabharata and Ramayana. Also, in many cases in Satapatha Brahmana the animal is allegorical to a statue made of rice and barley or some other object. Can someone give an actual and proper acc...

In this experct from Mahabharata, the Nagas mentioned the root of evil:- Approaching the king, let us bite him, so that our object will be accomplished. By his death the root of all evil will be torn up. This is the final deliberation of us all, O you who hearest with your eyes! Then, do speedil...

I want to know the answer from authentic and traditional sources.

I have come across a text from Jñānārṇava, it is a treatise on Jain Yoga in roughly 2200 Sanskrit verses composed by Śubhacandra. The meaning of the verse is Fool, there is no embodied soul in the three worlds for whom the noose of Yama will not stretch on their neck I am looking for the origina...

The Charvakas criticized the Vedic text for rituals they considered nonsensical and weird particularly Ashwamedha. Nyaya likely had some interactions with Charvakas seeing as they considered them tricky and the fact they almost never provide an alternative and only critcize. So, did a Nyayaika de...