Thread by @Farichild_

Ashvamedha Yajna is a ritual performed by Queens (particularly by the chief queen) for fertility and also to gain power in the kingdom. The Ashvamedha Yajna includes slaughtering the horse, then follows the queen’s intercourse with the horse, then the horse is chopped and cooked. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Purana and Sutra clearly mentions about this vulgar ritual, The Harivamsa Purana says,

Harivamsa Purana, Bhavishya Parva 3.5.11-13 ”After the passage of some time, king Janamejaya, who offers plenty of tributes (in sacrifices) observed the horse sacrifice as ordained

. Devi Vapushtama, the daughter of the king of Kashi, went and slept with the slain horse, according to the ritual as prescribed. Seeing the queen with beautiful limbs, Vsava (Indra) desired her. Entering the body of the dead horse, Indra had intercourse with the queen.”

Tr. A. Purushothaman and A. Harindranath. [ mahabharata-resources.org/harivamsa/bhav… ]
These verses are too vulgar to comment. My question is, if horse sacrifice (Ashvamedha Yajna) does not include copulation with the horse, then why did Indra enter the body of the horse

when he could have done it with his own body? As copulation with the dead horse is part of the ritual, Indra thinks that no one will come to know if he enters the body of the dead horse and copulates with the queen. This verse clearly shows that Ashvamedha does include

copulation with the dead horse this is why the Vedic god Indra who couldn’t resist his lust, entered the body of the horse and successfully copulated with the queen and no one stopped it as copulation is part of the ritual where the Queen sleeps naked with the horse,

they both are covered with a cloth and she places the #penis in her private part. Further the sutras also mention Chief Queen's copulation with the dead horse.
It is mentioned in Apastamba Srauta Sutra 20.17.12-18 that the Chief Queen recites some Mantras (mentioned in Yajurved).

Ramayana tells us that queen Kaushalya the mother of Hindu god Ram had spent a night with the horse.
Valmiki Ramayan, Bala Kanda 1, Sarga 14, Verses 33-35 ”With great delight coming on her Queen Kausalya reverently made circumambulations to the horse, and symbolically killed the

horse with three knives. Queen Kausalya desiring the results of ritual disconcertedly resided one night with that horse that flew away like a bird.
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