The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c22.60

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¹ For examples of these and other traits shown by the epic warriors, see the specimens collected in the writer's monograph on *The Position of the Ruling Caste*. Interesting parallels may be drawn between the attitude of Homeric and Indic warriors in these respects, parallels which may now be complemented by those between Greek and Teutonic ideals, as shown in Chadwick's *Heroic Age* (pp. 325 f.). Prof. Chadwick compares the Anglo-Saxon *dom* with the Greek *κλέα ἀνδρῶν*, and the same may be said of the *kīrti* and *yaças* of the Hindu, as the personal combat of king with king, which is the leading characteristic of Hindu epic fighting, may be compared with the style of fighting in Homeric and Teutonic poetry (*ibid*. p. 339).