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" With bow let us win kine, with bow the battle, with bow be victors in our hot encounters. The bow brings grief and sorrow to the foeman : armed with the bow may we subdue all regions. "
The Hymns of the Rigveda - Page 388
edited by - 1890
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The Texts of the White Yajurveda

Ralph Thomas Hotchkin Griffith - 1899 - 428 pages
...implements of war are enlogized in fourteen verses taken from RV VI. 75 and six from RV VI. 47. 26—31. 40 Close to his ear, as fain to speak, She presses, holding...like a woman — this Bowstring that preserves us iu the combat. 41 These, meeting like a woman and her lover, bear, motherlike, their child upon their...
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History of the Indian People: Life in Ancient India in the Age of the Mantras

P. T. Srinivasa Iyengar - 1912 - 164 pages
...encounters. The bow brings grief and sorrow to the foeman : armed with the bow may we subdue all regions. Close to his ear as fain to speak, she presses, holding her well-loved in her embraces. Strained on the bow, she whispers like a woman, this bowstring that preserves us in...
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The Rig-Veda and Vedic Religion: With Readings from the Vedas

A. C. Clayton - 1913 - 334 pages
...throwing the brown dice. • The dice marked with highest numbers. * To ahow that I have nothing left. The bow brings grief and sorrow to the foeman : armed...woman and her lover, bear, mother-like, their child J upon their bosom. t _ May the two bow-ends, starting swift asunder, scatter, in unison, the foes...
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Poetry of the Orient: An Anthology of the Classic Secular Poetry of the ...

Eunice Tietjens - 1928 - 408 pages
...brings grief and sorrow to the foeman: armed with the bow may we subdue all regions. Close to his car, as fain to speak, she presses, holding her well-loved...— this bowstring that preserves us in the combat. These, meeting like a woman and her lover, bear, mother-like, their child upon their bosom. May the...
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Ancient Indian Warfare: With Special Reference to the Vedic Period

Sarva Daman Singh - 1989 - 236 pages
...the ear as its point of origin. The twang of the bowstring sounded sweet to the ear of the warrior. 'Close to his ear, as fain to speak, she presses, holding her well loved friend in her embraces. Strained on the bow she whispers like a woman, this bowstring that...
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The Archaeology of Weapons: Arms and Armor from Prehistory to the Age of ...

R. Ewart Oakeshott - 1996 - 404 pages
...encounters, The Bow brings grief and sorrow to the foeman; armed With Bow may we subdue all regions. Close to his ear, as fain to speak, she presses, holding...— this Bow-string that preserves us in the Combat. Here the loved weapon is the bow, with the bow-string sounding in the warrior's ear like a woman's...
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