1-14-33 Sanskrit Verse
Kausalyaa tam hayam
tatra paricarya samantataha
tribhihi paramayaa mudaa.
Dasaratha was performing a horse sacrifice to cleanse his sins, before commencing Putra Kamesht`hi sacrifice to beget children. As a part of the sacrifice, Dasaratha's first queen Kausalya, stabbed the sacrificial horse three times with a golden knife.
Kausalya circumambulated the horse and stabbed it with a knife three times, with great pleasure (parama mudam).
*Why stab with 'great pleasure'?
*Why ask a woman to do such a dirty ritual?
*Dasaratha could have done it!
Added on Dec. 7, 2015. Reply to Shri Jolly.
Even if the queens have pierced the sacrificed horse (according to Shri Jolly it is already dead), still what a shameful thing it will be both for the King, priests, and the Queens!!! (To be continued. सशेष. ఇంకా ఉంది).