dog's corpse

[Luis Gonzalez-Reimann]

The following article addresses your question:

White, David Gordon. 1989. Dogs Die. History of Religions 28, no. 4: 283-303.

Best,

Luis Gonzalez-Reimann
University of California, Berkeley


At 12:26 PM 8/28/97 BST, you wrote:
>Dear Indologists,
>	Louis Renou, in L'Inde classique, I, ' 726, says, before the
>azvamedha, must be throwed a dog's corpse under the horse's legs.
>	Does anyone know the meaning of this act ?
>	Namaste,
>Dominique
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>Dominique THILLAUD
>Universite' de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France
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