The Antiquities of Orissa v1.c10.428

v1.c10.428

"You have rightly judged
His birth: for see, on either shoulder hangs
The martial quiver, and the feathery shafts
Blend with his curling locks: below his breast,
Slight tinctured with the sacrificial ashes,
The deer skin wraps his body: with the zone
Of *mūrva* bound, the madder-tinted garb
Descending vests his limbs; the sacred rosary
Begirts his wrist, and in one hand he bears
The *pipal* staff, the other grasps the bow". ²¹¹