Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c14.2

c14.2

The warrior's look is like a thunderous rain-cloud,
when armed with mail, he seeks the lap of battle:
Be thou victorious with unwounded body; so let the
thickness of thy mail protect thee ...
Whoso would kill us, whether he be a strange foe or
one of us,
May all the Gods discomfit him. My nearest, closest
mail is prayer.
*Rigveda*, VI, 75.*