= ಜನ್ನಗುದುರೆ.

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.