The horses and their sports are not well rooted in Indian subcontinent as some western scholars insinuate to the young readers, as they did not have enough Leg rooms. Horses are not native to Indian Subcontinent similar to the lions. Hunting and Ashwamedha Yaga are viewed with suspicion and there are long held beliefs that these forces played a major role in shaping of Indian history culture.
The spectacle of cruel horse sacrifice and Necrophilia linked with the queen is directly propagated and aimed at the Brahmin Priests to have killed the pain related to addiction to the fast sports, hunting, gambling and related maladies of the ancient times. The emblematic horses on the Ashoka Chakra remains as an ambiguous symbol singing the glory of the war horses and cautionary tales of an impending danger. The Ashwamedha Yaga sacrificial priests who have tamed the spirits at the times of distress are often made scape goats for denying to recreate the spectre of horrors of the history. Did the Ashwamedha Yaga prized horses that are trained to run relentlessly covering vast scapes of unmarked territories to create empires for the kings, lacked the training when to trot gracefully and halt and retreat to safe places?
When the young mind is given a picture to digest, of the Queens being made to sleep with the slaughtered horses, it triggers a strong image of the role of the priest. The ancient anxiety trickles down generation after generation, without any accompanying subtext or explanation.
The plight of the persons bonded with the fast running species calls for our attention to evaluate critically the method behind the madness. Race horses and Grass Sickness condition throws more light in to this ancient horror. Race horses that run enviable distances to conquer the lands for their kings and the jackpot for their gamblers when fall in to the precipices, the gloom of the spasms descend on all the stakeholders. The bowels craving for the missing joy of daily running congests, twists, bloats and the agonised anti-peristaltic frothing and rolling on the grounds is a price the kings and the gamblers pay for nurturing this trait.
It is a million dollar venture to save the horses who walk blindly in to this gambit. The transference and the sympathetic pain that descends on to the stake holders of the dying horse is unquestionable. The bezoars of the blocked bowels of the kings and horses becomes the responsibility of the so called Brahmin Priests, or any other professionals who could allay their misery. It evokes how this is narrated at different points in history to suit the needs of the people who want to ascend to the power. If Brahmin bashing becomes a common currency to rise to power, all the rituals associated with the class acquire the dark veils and shadows.
The queen who is made to sleep with the slaughtered animal in distress to compensate for the voracious appetite and the ensuing pangs of guilts of the king, is the question that remains unanswered. The kings may become supposedly guilt free through this act. What is left at the remains of the Queens explains the fallacy of quick fixes for Kings to come. The champions who tamed the spirits of the horse race gambling without leaving any pangs of envy, leave an indelible mark in the histories, which keeps resonating in the works of Sculptor Sri.M.N. Jayaraman Nagappa, in Chennai Anna Flyover.
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