Daśāśvamedha
Daśāśvamedha
Daśāśvamedha is a name used for more than one place in the Purāṇas and Itihāsas. Each is listed below with where it is told; choose the one you are looking for.
Places
- Daśāśvamedha (Gautamī): the tīrtha on the Gautamī, also called Daśāśvamedhika, where King Bhauvana, by the grace of his guru Kaśyapa and of the Gautamī, performed one aśvamedha and gained the fruit of ten. Brahma Purāṇa, Gautamī Māhātmya, Chapter 13
- Daśāśvamedha Ghāṭa: one of the five supreme tīrthas of Kāśī, on the bank of the Gaṅgā, named for the ten aśvamedha yajñas of King Divodāsa. Skanda Purāṇa, Kāśī Khaṇḍa, Chapters 52, 83; Vāmana Purāṇa, Chapter 3
- Daśāśvamedha (Tīrtha): a holy tīrtha named next to Kedāra in the Brahma Purāṇa’s great list of the tīrthas and kshetras of the earth. Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 25