The Social and Military Position of the Ruling Caste in Ancient India, as Represented by the Sanskrit Epic c2.s5.271

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∗ vii. 23. 86 ff. Abhimanyu’s is cārṅgapakṣī, bearing a hawk’s wing(?). Yudhishthira here has a divine bow. Other such ensigns are found in vi. 74. 13 (yūpaketuh); vi. 104. 14 (tāladhvajaḥ); vii. 2. 23 ff. (indīvarāṅkaḥ and siṃhaketuḥ); vi. 115. 31 (karṇikāradhvajaḥ: compare vii. 36. 12; vi. 112. 29; 115. 26, etc.). † The tāla is dhvajadrumaḥ, xii. 55.