The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c12.75

c12.75

‘made of equal length with the man who bears it. This they rest upon the ground, and pressing against it with their left foot thus discharge the arrow having drawn the string backwards: for the shaft they use is little short of being three yards long, and there is nothing which can resist an Indian archer’s shot—neither shield nor breastplate, nor any stronger defence, if such there be’ (Arrian, *Indika*, ch. xvi).