Sacred Field

Template:Infobox AoE3 Buildings The Sacred Field is a building unique to the Indians in Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties.

Overview

Sacred Fields increases experience generated by Indian livestock when they are tasked to it and trains Sacred Cows for 125 food (100 food with Goraksha). They can also heal nearby units if The Mystical Syllable card is sent.

Units

Icon	Livestock	Cost
	Sacred Cow	125 food

Improvements

Age	Icon	Improvement	Cost	Effect
		Ritual Bovine	150 wood, 150 coin	Indian livestock generates +25% XP when tasked into Sacred Fields

Home City cards

As the Sacred Field is exclusive to the Indians, only other civilizations' TEAM cards that affects them are listed here.

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Green: TEAM Shipment that is sent to each player in a team

Europeans

Native Americans

Asians

Indians

Icon	Card	Description	Age	Home City level
	The Mystical Syllable	Sacred Fields slowly heal nearby units and ships 1 Sacred Field Rickshaw +1 Villager	1	25
	TEAM Improved Buildings	Buildings get +25% hit points	1	10
	Mughal Architecture	Buildings (except Wonders) cost -20% wood and build 50% faster +1 Villager	2	40
File:Goraksha.png	Goraksha	Indian livestock gather +80% XP and Sacred Cows cost -25 food +1 Villager	1	10

History

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As a source of food and a symbol of life in Hinduism, the cow may not be killed. According to the ancient religious text, the “Rigveda,” the cow is a goddess associated with Aditi, the mother of all gods. Therefore, slaughter is taboo. In ancient times, cows were sacrificed and their meat eaten, but never primarily for consumption, and milk-producing cows were never killed. Even during periods when meat-eating was permitted, vegetarianism was encouraged.

On a more practical level, slaughtering cows for beef was an extremely expensive act for sacrifice or as a gift, since the animal was a source of many important products: milk for consumption, fuel from dung, and browned butter for lamps. Later, in the early centuries CE, the cow became an appropriate gift to priests of the higher caste, or Brahmans. It was even said that killing a cow was equal to killing a Brahman.

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