Wilson Philological Lectures on Sanskrit and the Derived Languages c6.34

c6.34

5. क्षत्र signifies in later Sanskrit the order of the Kshatriyas or the warrior caste. Here it is used in the primitive sense of ‘valour’, ‘prowess’. नर does not mean ‘man’ here, but is used in its original sense of manly. आ and करामहे are separated by a word. मृळीक ‘favour’ is obsolete. चक्षम् ‘the reach of sight’, ‘visual power’, has also gone out of use.