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Antipathy to the Rajastlye Why?
a plough be prepared out of that gold and then let the sacrificial ground be ploughed by means of that plough Lel then the sacrifice with ample food and well fashioned one be performed on that ground in right manoer This Valsnava-sacrifice is worthy to be performed by the great peTHODS, Nobody except the ancient Vişnu has performed this sacratice This great sacrifice competes with the Rajasüya sacrifice We will like this sacrifice and you will be profitted by this sacrifice Moreover this sacrifice will creat DO problems Your desire will be fulfilled " (Mbh 11( 241 26 A)
Then Duryodbana performed the Vaignait-Sacrifice (Mbh HI 242.4 FT) Many persona praised it, but some said to him "This sacrifice was not Like the sacrifice performed by Yudhisthira This sacrifice is not even to much as the sixteenth part of that sacrifice " Then Karna said to Duryodhana, "Luckily this sacrifice has been well performed thall bodour you when you will perform the Rajasaya after baving killed the Pandavas " Duryodhane agreed with it and ags10 began to think of the Rajasūya He then asked his friends, "when shall I, after having killed the Pandavas, be able to perform that great and wealthy sacrice' (Mob III. 243 3 ff) Thus we observe that the performance of Rajasuja done by Yudhisthira was so disturbing to Duryodhana that he was always thinking of performing it and for that he wanted to kill the Pandavas Thu the once performed Rajasaya kept the fire of anger in Duryodhans always burning The result of all this was the great Bbxratiya war
If we recapitulate the position of epics and Puranas 10 conaccios of the Rajasuya, we can conclude that these texts were antagonistic towards the Rajasuya-performance From the stories of Soma and Lavina we know that the performer of the Rajasūya loses his conscience and indulges himself in some mean actlyttles Rama does not perform the Rajasuya being afraid of the world-agalhilation He prefers the Air medha sacrifice Yudhişthira's attitude towards the Rahusaya was also lurking one But Krsna encourages him to perform it and be per forms But the dreadful results which followed it, justify the lurking attitude Duryodbana, too, wanted to perform the Rajasave but was opposed to do so He, instead, performed the Valpaava-sacrifice Thus the epice and puranas express antipathy towards the Rajasaya It is now a problem viz why there is antipathy towards the Rajasūya To try to solve this problem let us turn to the vedic literature where we get description and explanation of the vedic ritual
From the vedic texts wo como to know that the alm of the Rajasiya was to assert one's being a klog Thus SB V 1 1.12, 13, we read, "one,
