Fetters
“pāśa”
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
fetters · gyves · the bonds · the human bond
spoken of as
1 expressionGyves“fetters”1 mention
Heracleidae (Greek)
And he bound his hands with gyves, and is bringing that chieftain once so prosperous as a trophy hither, whose fortune now doth preach a lesson, clear as day, to all the sons of men, that none should envy him, who seems to thrive, until they see his death;
in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Enumerated ritual/mythic bonds (of Varuna, Nirrti, earth, atmosphere, cattle, human curses) from which the addressee is released.
the clod brought from his cremation-ground, may that not harm you;
The human bond with which men curse, or the priestly rite of the fathers which one undertakes — Varuṇa who comes as the proximate one, may he not harm you;
The fetters belonging to Varuṇa and those belonging to Nirṛti, the fetters of trees and of plants, those earthly ones that have arisen from the earth — may they not harm you;
Heracleidae
Bonds used by Iolaus to shackle the captured Eurystheus.
And he bound his hands with gyves, and is bringing that chieftain once so prosperous as a trophy hither, whose fortune now doth preach a lesson, clear as day, to all the sons of men, that none should envy him, who seems to thrive, until they see his death;