Horses / Steeds
animal · 2 works · 4 mentions · 14 anchored passages
tawny steeds · bay steeds · horses · steeds · bay horses · prize-winning horse · the prize horse · the two bays
spoken of as
1 expressionSteeds / Horses1 mention
Sāmaveda (Sanskrit)
O Indra, let your tawny, long-maned steeds yoked with prayer carry you for the drinking of Soma.
in the texts
Rigveda
Indra's tawny chariot-steeds, harnessed and praised as unrestrained by enemies.
Sing to that Indra — in whose presence his two tawny steeds are not restrained even in battles by enemies.
They harness the tawny, ruddy one as he moves around those who stand firm;
O Indra, O brother, thy purpose lies in both directions — both where the great chariot is put to rest and where the prize-winning horse is unyoked.
Sāmaveda
Horses used as similes for Soma's motion and as the literal steeds drawing the chariots of Indra and the Sun.
O Indra, let your tawny, long-maned steeds yoked with prayer carry you for the drinking of Soma.
May the two tawny steeds with peacock tails, white-backed, draw you in the golden chariot to drink of the honey-sweet pressing, to imbibe the rousing draught.
Indra alone — together with his two bay horses, yoked by his word — is mixed in with them.