The Social and Military Position of the Ruling Caste in Ancient India, as Represented by the Sanskrit Epic c2.s5.334

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* ix. 8. 22; iii. 269. 6, etc. Compare xiii. 118. 13, syandaneṣu ca kamboja yuktāḥ paramavājinaḥ. On the color, compare vii. 23. 74; vi. 79. 50 (karbura). In B. A. Up. vi. 1, as a type of noble spirit ‘a great and lordly horse of the Sindh country’ is used. Bhagadatta (with his Yavanas) has what are called ājāneya horses, blooded animals, also called in other descriptions swift and noble as companion epithets. Compare ii. 51. 15; v. 4490 (B. om.). Such ājāneyas had also the crown-prince of Hāstina: ‘you have all heart can desire,’ says his father, ‘blooded horses,’ etc., ii. 49. 9.