Jannagudure: 1 definition

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Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Jannagudure (ಜನ್ನಗುದುರೆ):—[noun] a consecrated royal horse let lose by a king, performing a sacrifice, to wander at its will, as a symbol of challenge to the kings of the region where it wanders, and when and if it comes back unchallenged at the end of a year, the king would be consecrated as an emperor, immolating it at the sacrificial fire; a sacrificial horse.

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

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