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	[Advaita-l] purusha sUktam & nArAyaNa sUktam
		In the shrauta rituals, the Purushasukta is recited in the purushamedha.
		In the purushamedha, the yajamana should give as dakshina his entire property including his household fire.
		The Shatapathabrahmana (13.6.1-2) says that it is "Purushanarayana" who saw the Purushamedha (and presumably its' mantras) so already there is a blending going on between the sacrificer and sacrificee.
	www.advaita-vedanta.org /archives/advaita-l/2004-March/013465.html (712 words)

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		The Purushamedha ==================== The quotations from SCI describe Purusha sacrifice in rather activist and cosmic terms.
		The Purushamedha (described as dreadful by Professor R. Majumdar of the College of Indology in his book "Ancient India") was a ritual in which a human being was sacrificed instead of a horse as in the Asvamedha.
		The queen behaved with the human victim in the Purushamedha, exactly as she did with the horse in the Asvamedha sacrifice.
	www.chandrage.com /personal/sbarrkum/newsgroups/vedas.txt (3698 words)

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		Women who have just looked at men who are not their husbands are sawed in pieces, others are boiled alive in `kitchen fires' and others are chopped to pieces.
		Further confirmation of the harsh suppression of women in Brahmanism is evinced by the testimonies of several travellers who visited India and were eye-witness to the highly debilitating impact of Vedic and Vaishnava doctrines on Indian women.
		This barbaric act, which is fully sanctioned by the Vedas, is referred to as `purushamedha' or `naramedha', the Vedic term for Hindu human sacrifice.
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		Worse still is the custom of consuming the flesh of the burnt brides accoring to the Vedic `purushamedha'.
		After the helpless brides are burnt alive, their bodies are cooked as if they were some animal and their flesh consumed by the pious Hindu family of the bridegroom.
		In addition to destroying evidence of any crime, the pious Hindus also `gain merit' by performing the `holy' Vedic purushamedha (human sacrifice).
	www.strategypage.com /militaryforums/594-579.aspx (1196 words)

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		The Purushamedha ==================== The quotations from SCI describe Purusha sacrifice in rather activist and cosmic terms.
		The Purushamedha (described as dreadful by Professor R. Majumdar of the College of Indology in his book "Ancient India") was a ritual in which a human being was sacrificed instead of a horse as in the Asvamedha.
		The queen behaved with the human victim in the Purushamedha, exactly as she did with the horse in the Asvamedha sacrifice.
	kafula.msrc.sunysb.edu /~sbarrkum/newsgroups/vedas.txt (3698 words)

	Sriramchandra.org » Books » Wisdom Unfurled
		Indeed it is a great boon to humanity that they get the supreme spiritual benefit though the sacrifice of the great Master Sri Ramchandraji, who so successfully effaced Himself and effected His self-dissolution that Nature filled Him up with all the powers for achieving its purpose.
		This is an example of Purushamedha par-excellence, an example of which will not be seen again in the words of Rev. Lalaji Maharaj Himself.
		It is common knowledge that one has to perform severe austerities and penances for a long time and through several lives even to get at peace not to mention liberation or realization.
	www.sriramchandra.org /books/WU/WUchap_11.htm (1239 words)

	Asia Times Online Community and News Discussion - India's Cruelty Towards Females (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Worse still is the custom of consuming the flesh of the burnt brides according to the Vedic `purushamedha'.
		The flesh is then steam-cooked and eaten by the family members in order to dispose of the body.
		All the primitive customs of Sati, female infanticide, human sacrifice (purushamedha) and horse sacrifice (ashwamedha) of the blood-thirsty Aryan war-tribes are justified in them.
	forum.atimes.com /topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3584 (4648 words)

	Asia Times Online Community and News Discussion - It happens only in India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This was the first great purushamedha, or Brahmin human sacrifice.
		After this event, the Brahmins spread the horrific customs of purushamedha and ashwamedha - horse sacrifice - in order to consolidate their vicious grip on society.
		The horrific varieties of Brahmin ritual murder - Vedic purushamedha, aswhamedha and naramedha - which claimed lakhs of human and animal lives are also among the causes leading to the rise of anti-Brahminism.
	forum.atimes.com /topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=8560 (4992 words)

	Archaeology of Lower Ganga-Yamuna Doab, 2 Vols.
		This work coordinates architectural discoveries from Kausambi and Sringaverpur, Buddhist monastery of Kausambi and sacrificial altar Syenciti of Purushamedha of mid 2nd century B.C. from Kausambi after subjecting them to micro-level study.
		This book also includes art and architecture of Kausambi and Sringaverpur.
		These chapters are on escological setting of Lower Doab, Lower Ganga-Yamuna Doab through the ages, exploration and excavations, art style and architecture of Allahabad pillar, earliest structures at Kausambi, Syenciti and Purushamedha from Kausambi, Kusana palace architecture, Buddhist monastery, Kusana period tank from Sringaverpur, stone images, and terracotta art.
	www.easternbookcorporation.com /moreinfo.php?txt_searchstring=8555 (317 words)

	Satapatha Brahmana Part V (SBE44): Thirteenth Kâ<I>n</I><I>d</I>a: XIII, 6, 1. Sixth ...
		Now this Purushamedha is a five-days’ sacrificial performance--the sacrifice is fivefold, the victim is fivefold, and five seasons are a year: whatsoever of five kinds there is, either concerning the deity or the self (body), all that he thereby obtains.
		; for the Purushamedha is these worlds, and these worlds have light on both sides--through Agni (the sacrificial fire) on this side, and through Âditya (the Sun) on the other: therefore it has light on both sides.
		And the Ukthya is food, and the Atirâtra the body (self); and because there are these Ukthyas on both sides of the Atirâtra, therefore this body is surrounded by food.
	www.sacred-texts.com /hin/sbr/sbe44/sbe44110.htm (754 words)

	Theist - Hindu Human Sacrifice (Purushamedha) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Purushamedha is fully acknowledged (and known) by Professor R.C. Majumdar of the College of Indology.
		Purushamedha to be performed like the fifth of the Prishthya-shadaha.
		Purushamedha originated at about the same time, and that they were
	www.usenetculture.com /t-264087.html (13863 words)

	HINDU HISTORY
		The idea of an Hindu considering beef as a staple item of diet would appear to be an affront to Hindus in general, but it is nevertheless a fact.
		As mentioned in a earlier chapter on Caste the Ashvamedha Yagna was also originally an act of killing and roasting a horse, so also was the less known Purushamedha which perhaps involved the killing and eating of persons captured as prisoners during the tribal days of the past.
		The legend of Chilaya (referred to in an earlier chapter), brings out the fact that cannibalism could have been an accepted practice in the dim past of barbarism and savagery, the memory of which was kept alive by its being incorporated into a legend
	www.geocities.com /lavlesh/ahimsaindia.html (2840 words)

	History News Network
		Following the bloody Aryan conquest of the Sudric nations of South India, the Aryan Brahmins utilised every conceivable means in order to eat away at the very backbone of the Dravidian race.
		Horrible practices like hijrahism, sati, enforcement of Vedic apartheid, Vedic human sacrifice (purushamedha) and female infanticide were used to oppress the native Dravidoids.
		The instilling of hatred against women in the masses was the direct result of the enforcement of the Aryan Vaishnava religion upon the Shaiva masses.
	hnn.us /comments/80254.html (3824 words)

	Satapatha Brahmana Part V (SBE44): Thirteenth Kâ<I>n</I><I>d</I>a: XIII, 6, 2. Second ...
		And whatever food there is in these worlds that is its 'medha,' its food; and inasmuch as this is its 'medha,' its food, therefore (it is called) Purushamedha.
		men (purusha) meet for sacrifice (medhya), therefore also it is called Purushamedha.
		And if a Brâhmana performs the sacrifice, he should bestow all his property in order to obtain and secure everything, for the Brâhmana is everything, and all one's property is everything, and the Purushamedha is everything.
	www.sacred-texts.com /hin/sbr/sbe44/sbe44111.htm (2245 words)

	SDDS Volume 2 Issue 9
		A doubt can arise whether the principle of 'Ahimsa' so loudly proclaimed is not inconsistent with the sacrifice of goats, horses etc. referred to in the Vedas.
		No doubt, the Vedas did prescribe some animal sacrifices; it even spoke of 'Purushamedha' a human sacrifice.
		But, the concept should be viewed in the context in which they were so prescribed.
	www.ibiblio.org /sripedia/oppiliappan/sgati/sddsv2/v02009.htm (2804 words)

	India Culture Disucssion chat forums
		Recent history's first great Purushamedha - Vedic human sacrifice - had begun.
		Chosen as sacrificial victims were the Bengali and Punjabi youth.
		Aurangzeb distrusted the Brahmins on account of Brahmin ritual murder - the heinous crime of Vedic purushamedha.
	indiaculture.net /talk/messages/65/9367.html (2177 words)

	Comparative Religion - Salvation and eternal life in world religions
		In this way the priests reached a point where they were actually manipulating the gods and considered themselves (through the rituals they performed) the keepers of universal order, providers of fertility, wealth, victory over enemies, etc. The tendency to manipulate the gods is obvious in Vedic ritualism and was the cause for its decline.
		Although human sacrifices (Purushamedha) were very rare in Brahminism, the priests held the ropes of heaven and soon became more important than the gods.
		After all, it was their sacrifices that kept the universe properly functioning.
	www.comparativereligion.com /salvation.html (10628 words)

	Science and Spirituality- The modes of Yajna and the science of Kunda - (Akhandjyoti)
		The total number of bricks required to make the platform of Chayan yaga is 11170.
		(14) Purushamedha yajna — In this yajna, purusha (males) are tied up with the yupa (post).
		After completing this yajna, one can take the Vanprastha Ashram.
	www.akhandjyoti.org /?Akhand-Jyoti/2005/Jul-Aug/ScienceKundas (1952 words)

	Amazon.com: "White Yagur-veda": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		See all pages with references to White Yagur-veda.
		the texts required for) the four sacrifices (called Asvamedha, Purushamedha, Sarvamedha, and Pitrimedha), one who knows the Vgasaneyi-skh of the White Yagur-veda,...
		Key Phrases in this book: Professor Dolly, Max Muller, White Yagur-veda, Professor Haug, purificatory texts, sesamum grains, lunar penance, crimes causing loss, twilight devotions, thrice recites, burnt oblations, injuring living beings (See more)
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	VEPartIIChC
		The second hymn, which we have entitled "The Diverse Callings of Men," is dedicated to Soma and seems to be in a humorous vein.
		The third refers to the controversial purushamedha or human sacrifice, whether performed actually or symbolically.
		All three give a vivid picture of the highly organized Vedic society and the performance within it of a wide range of human activities.
	www.saivasiddhanta.com /resources/books/vedic_experience/Part2/VEPartIIChC.html (8680 words)

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