AW: dog's corpse

[Rolf Heinrich Koch]

Compare Jain. Life in ancient India as depicted in the Jain canon p. 45 with 
reference to Arthashastra:
It has been stated that a Brahmana who had committed certain crimes should be 
branded with an image of a dog (sunaga) or a kundiya pot on his head..
Heiner

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See Taittiriya Brahmana 3.8.4.2 for relevant passage, which gives its own
interpretation of the ritual act.

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> 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
> >
> >Dominique THILLAUD
> >Universite' de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France
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