chariot horses
animal · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
chariot-horses · dark horses · horses · stud · swift horses
in the texts
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
The chariot-horses of Rāma and Rāvaṇa, wounded, exhausted, and driven throughout the duel.
Yoked with dark horses, endowed with a fierce radiance, thick with banners like lightning-flashes, displaying weapons like Indra's own rainbow-bow, it poured streams of arrows like a cloud discharging a torrent of rain.
Then Rāma pierced his swift horses with sharp arrows — swift, powerfully driven, keen, comparable to thunderbolts.
"And these chariot-horses, wearied by the effort of pulling the car, are spent, exhausted by the heat, like cattle beaten down by rain.
Agesilaus
Racehorses associated with Cynisca's victory and with the distinction between wealth and virtue.
Surely, too, he did what was seemly and dignified when he adorned his own estate with works and possessions worthy of a man, keeping many hounds and war horses, but persuaded his sister Cynisca to breed chariot horses, and showed by her victory that such a stud marks the owner as a person of wealth, but not necessarily of merit.