The Social and Military Position of the Ruling Caste in Ancient India, as Represented by the Sanskrit Epic c2.s5.293

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∗ R. vi. 31. 28 ff. Bells are here kiṅkiṇī (çatanādita). Compare R. vi. 49. 8. Compare, too, R. vi. 51. 17 ff. (sadhvajaḥ . . sānukarṣaḥ) a car furnished with tridents, axes, etc., in ib. 108; and R. vi. 66. 8, where agnivarṇa of ratha is to be thus interpreted as ‘golden.’ The same R. vi. 74. 1 (rathānāṁ ca ’gnivarṇānāṁ sadhvajānāṁ varūthinām).