Battle
event · 6 works · 7 mentions · 7 anchored passages
battle · war · a battle · al-maʻrakah · battles · combat · conflict · contests · front battle line · its importance for war
in the texts
Rigveda
Combat setting in which the gods aid mortals and stand as protectors.
That power which is hard to overcome in battles, which is praiseworthy in contests, which encompasses the five peoples — O Indra and Agni, we invoke that power of yours.
The mortal whom ye two, O Indra and Agni, both help in the battles — even the firm obstacles does he break through, like brilliant words, as Trita does.
for ye are standers in the front battle line;
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
The martial contest for which the speaker seeks Indra's aid and victory.
you shall not be conquered — in small battles, O Maghavan, and in great ones.
His two arms win cattle, matchless in resolve in battle, action after action;
you have been the conqueror in battles.
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah
The battle into which the courageous man throws himself, knowing his body will perish, for the sake of posthumous praise.
And again, the brave man throws himself into the battle though he knows his body will perish, seeking the thanks and the praise that accrue to him after his death.
To Philip, II
An unnamed battle whose result makes the Greeks more likely to accept Philip's intended policy.
for on account of the battle which has taken place, all are compelled to be prudent and to desire that which they surmise you wish to do and to say, namely, that they must desist from the madness and the spirit of aggrandizement, which they were wont to display in their relations with each other, and must carry the war into Asia.
Kitāb mīzān al-ḥaqq fī al-manṭiq
Battle and military standing, named among the standard subjects and aspects of literary description.
And a town is described from the side of its craftsmen, or its men of letters, or its buildings, or its natural and geographical situation, or its military situation and its importance for war, or from the side of what abounds in it of good or evil matters and of acceptable or detested conditions, and the like.
as the description of a town, or of a battle, or of a scene among the scenes of nature, such as a meadow, or a sunrise, or a sunset, or a tempest, or the like;
Manusmṛti
Armed conflict between kings, governed by codes of honor and spiritual consequence.
Kings who, seeking to slay one another in battle, fight with their utmost power without turning their backs, go to heaven.
Not turning back in battles, the protection of the subjects, and the service of Brāhmaṇas are the highest means of welfare for kings.
While fighting in battle, he should not strike his enemies with concealed weapons, nor with barbed or poisoned weapons, nor with those whose points are blazing with fire.