Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c4.s9.89

v2.c4.s9.89

Cities were besieged and invested (upa-sad, pra-bhid),¹² probably as a rule by blockade, since the ineffective means of assault of the time would have rendered storming difficult and expensive. Hillebrandt¹³ thinks that the pur cariṣṇu of the Rigveda¹⁴ was a kind of chariot; it may—like the Trojan horse—have been an Indian anticipation of the Roman means of assaulting a town.