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WARS AND DISSENSIONS

the enemy! We will spread our conquests on all sides with the bow!

"The string of the bow when pulled approaches the ear of the archer, making way in battle. It whispers words of consolation to him and with sound it


ANCIENT INDIAN HEAD-DRESS.
(From a Gandhara sculpture.)

clasps the arrow, even as a loving wife clasps her husband.

"The quiver is like the parent of many arrows; the many arrows are like its children. It makes a sound and hangs on the back of the warrior and furnishes arrows in battle and conquers the enemy.

"The expert charioteer stands on his chariot and