The Social and Military Position of the Ruling Caste in Ancient India, as Represented by the Sanskrit Epic c2.s5.633

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∗ iii. 37. 19; x. 7. 52, *kavacī satalatrāṇo baddhagodhāṅgulitravān*, and *dhanuṣpāṇir baddhagodhāṅgulitravān*. In the first, C. reads *tanutrāṇa*, 1474. † *kāñcanavarmabhṛt*, ix. 32. 64; i. 30. 47. ‡ *kārṣṇāyasaṃ varma hemacitram*, vii. 127. 17; *tāmra-rājata-lāuha, lāuhāni kavacāni*, iv. 62. 4, 7; gold especially, ix. 32. 63; wood, *kīlaka-vacāni* (see above); hide, *dvīpicarma-avanaddha, vyāghracarma*, vi. 46. 31: compare above, p. 282, note, on arms. The cuirass is occasionally expressly stated to be very costly: vii. 165. 29, *hemacitram mahādhanam kavacam*. § *carāvara(ṇa)*, ‘arrow-guard,’ may be anything that protects the body from arrows, as shields, helm, breastplate, or quiver. As shields, perhaps, in vi. 60. 17; vii. 14. 72. ‖ viii. 27. 33; vi. 119. 4, *savićirṇatanutrāṇaḥ*, all his armor was pierced; vi. 45. 47, *varmamukhyam tanutrāṇam*; *gātrāvaraṇāni* in vii. 2. 28 (kavacāni, N.; shields, P. W.); *kaṅkaṭa*, elephant-hook, may mean cuirass in vii. 187.