The Social and Military Position of the Ruling Caste in Ancient India, as Represented by the Sanskrit Epic c2.s5.67

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prettier, dyūta, ‘gambling,’ vi. 59. 39 (93. 42, ‘they fought as if in a svayaṁvara’!); vii. 85. 27; raṇe praṇadyūtapane, viii. 160. 43. The warrior not only looks on the battle as ‘gambling for life,’ but goes ‘playing’ and ‘dancing’ to his sport (krīḍann iva nṛtyan, iii. 280. 64-65; vi. 114. 26, et passim). I do not pretend to have exhausted the vocabulary, but these are the terms chiefly employed.