Bow and arrows
object · 6 works · 6 mentions · 12 anchored passages
bow · arrow · arrows · bows and arrows · bow and arrows · bowstring · bowstrings · iṣu · quiver · shaft
spoken of as
3 expressionsBows and arrows2 mentions
Odyssey (Greek) · Law in a Free State (English)
they know nothing about bows and arrows, but are a sea-faring folk, and pride themselves on their masts, oars, and ships, with which they travel far over the sea.
Arrow and bow1 mention
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit)
As an arrow flies away, released from the bow, so may your urine be released — outward, all of it, bāl.
Bow and arrow1 mention
Rigveda (Sanskrit)
The arrow with a hundred holes, with a thousand feathers — it is the one you, O Indra, made your ally.
in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
The arrow and bowstring, treated both as a wound-causing weapon to be healed and as a weapon released against enemies.
As an arrow flies away, released from the bow, so may your urine be released — outward, all of it, bāl.
Let the arrows shot from all directions fall away from us — those discharged and those yet to be discharged;
When the cows, embracing the tree, do reverence to the quiverless, unquivering, skillfully-wrought arrow — drive the shooting shaft away from us, O Indra;
Odyssey
Archery equipment explicitly said to be unknown to the Phaeacians, who define themselves instead by seafaring.
they know nothing about bows and arrows, but are a sea-faring folk, and pride themselves on their masts, oars, and ships, with which they travel far over the sea.
Rigveda
Indra's bow and a mythic hundred-holed arrow, also referenced as a danger-image from which protection is sought.
The arrow with a hundred holes, with a thousand feathers — it is the one you, O Indra, made your ally.
Drive away from us this arrow, O Ādityas, drive away the evil thought.
Your fierce and well-wrought, fine bow, your trusty golden bundle — both your arms, fit for battle, well-adorned, grow great even from the supple, the supple-increasing.
Sāmaveda
Bows and arrows as literal weapons of battle and as recurring metaphors/epithets (Agni-as-arrow, the 'bow-resistor').
Where arrows fly together like young boys with bared tips — there may Brahmaṇaspati and Aditi grant us shelter;
Thy gift, O giver of wealth — may the bowstrings of the others snap upon their bows.
O Agni, well-pleased with all your flames — O arrow let loose, fly forth, the sacred word has sharpened you.
Law in a Free State
Weapons whose ownership and use on holidays are mandated by an early statute quoted in the passage, in preference to games like tennis and dice.
They shall have bows and arrows and use the same of Sundays and holidays;
Cyropaedia
Ranged weapons used in Persian training, hunting, and Cyrus' contests.
Those who go must take bow and arrows and, in addition to the quiver, a sabre or bill in its scabbard;
for in all the contests in which those of the same age are wont often to engage with one another he did not challenge his mates to those in which he knew he was superior, but he proposed precisely those exercises in which he knew he was not their equal, saying that he would do better than they;
They teach the boys self-control also; and it greatly conduces to their learning self-control that they see their elders also living temperately day by day. And they teach them likewise to obey the officers; and it greatly conduces to this also that they see their elders implicitly obeying their officers. And besides, they teach them self-restraint in eating and drinking; and it greatly conduces t …