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# Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c9.40

Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c9.40

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### [c9.40](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c9.40)

Twice Siddhartha tried  
Its strength across his knee, then spake—"Shoot now  
With this, my cousins!" but they could not bring  
The stubborn arms a hair's breadth nigher use;  
Then the Prince, lightly leaning, bent the bow.  
. . . . .  
Then lifting fair a shaft, he drew and loosed,  
And the keen arrow clave the sky and drave  
Right through that farthest drum, nor stayed its flight,  
But skimmed the plain beyond, past reach of eye.

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