War in Ancient India c14.13

c14.13

| The name of the hero. | The Flag. |
| Arjuna | The Kapidhvaja or the flag with the figure of Hanumān (monkey) with monkey's face and a long tail, creating terror in the rank and file of the enemy (Cf. Ch. 85.4). |
| Aśvatthāma | Simhalāṅgūlam or the flag with the figure of the tail of a lion, radiating, golden in colour, and affording delight to the Kurus. |
| Karṇa | Hastikakṣaya—golden, and adorned with festoons and garlands flying aloft in the air. |
| Kṛpa | Gōvṛṣa—a representation of the bull. This is the device also of Śiva. |
| Vṛṣasēna | Mayūra—the device of a peacock. This is also the emblem of god Subrahmaṇya. |
| Śalya, king of Madras. | Sītadhvaja, auspicious and radiant. |
| Jayadratha or Sindhurāja. | Varāha or the boar emblem, white in colour. In the chariot adorned with this silvery flag, Jayadratha shone like Pūṣan of old in the Devāsura wars. |
| Bhūriśravas, the son of Sōmadatta. | The Yūpa flag—shone like the sun with the moon therein. It looked just like the yūpa in the Rājasūya sacrifice. |