As'vamedha-yajña: Horse-sacrifice. At the end of the life or the rule of a king is a horse sent out with a plaquette around its neck followed by an army. Anyone contesting the honor inscribed on that plaquette is then fought.
Medhatithi Gautama (c. 6th century BCE) founded the anviksiki school of logic.[2] The Mahabharata (12.173.45), around the 5th century BCE, refers to the anviksiki and tarka schools of logic.
asvamedha (Ashwamedha) the offering of the horse. [Ved.]: the offering of the Life-Power with all its impulses, desires, enjoyments to the divine existence.
"Om medham me Indro dadatu Medhain Devi Saraswati
Medham me Ashwinavubhavadhattaam Pushkarasrajam." ...
Ashvamedha - a Vedic ritual sacrifice
Asteya - nonstealing, one of the five yamas, or restraints, which are the first of the eight stages of classical Yoga (see also yamas)
Atman - the individual being (as opposed to the universal being) ...
The kings used to perform a yajna known as Ashwamedha yajna. When they had to declare themselves as emperors, they would send out a horse followed by the army. That horse would travel freely around the world.
The word meditation, is derived from two Latin words : meditari(to think, to dwell upon, to exercise the mind) and mederi (to heal). Its Sanskrit derivation 'medha' means wisdom.
It is there always, pouring on us like a rain which is called, in Yoga Shastras, dharma medha - the cloud of virtue, the rain of blessedness.
 See also: Mind, Body, Spirit, Vedic, Sanskrit
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