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companion in the field of battle ;* and he is sculptured riding on a dog, 

 with the martial horn called Napairi in one hand, and the Damru, or small 

 drum, with which he incites the courage of the combatants, in the other. 

 The standard of this the elder son of the god of battle, is often described by 

 the bard as being " of the colour of the rain-cloud," or a field sable, on 

 which a white horse passant is delineated. 



On a former occassion.t I gave from the great bard of the martial Raj. 

 puts, a slight sketch of the machinery of a field of battle, in which Chand, 

 like Homer, brings the celestials to view, and often to mix with the fight. 

 But Chand's mythology takes a wider range than Homer's, and we must 

 have recourse to the Scald of Scandinavia for a parallel to much of his imagery ; 

 forthough Chand makes Kailasa shake, as Homer did Olympus with the anger 

 of JiVAPiTRi, the Greek was too refined to make the father of the gods quaff 

 blood from the scull-cup, the patera (ttst-js) of SIva or Hari ; for whose 

 counterpart we must have reference to the Thor of the Northman, as well 

 as for the sisters of our Apsaras and Palcharas, the VALKYKtEst of northern 

 mythology. 



In every field of battle, either Sxva, or his consort, the terrific Mata, 

 leads the war. She is on her lion, armed with the trident, preceded by her 

 standard-bearing sons, the Bhairavas, and followed by " the fatal sisters " 

 the sixty-four Yoginis, with clouds of inferior powers all of female personifi- 

 cation, and each holding zpateraoi the scull. Another extract from Chand 

 may better illustrate this, taken from one of the most interesting of the 

 sixty-nine cantos of the bard, entitled " the Battle of Canoiij, or the Vow 

 of Sunjogta."§ I select a passage to shew that the bards of the Rajputs, 

 like those of Scandinavia, incited the warriors to deeds of glory by their 

 example as well as by their poesy. 



* The battle shouts of the Rajput viatnor axe " //on- f/ar/ (the common epithet of Siva as 

 god of war)," and " havac, havac." We might suppose the " immortal bard" had been reading 

 Chand, the Homeh of the Rajputs, when he exclaims 



" Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war." 

 Havoc is from the Cimbric or Welsh " hqfog," meaning slaughter. 

 ' f See Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. i, p. 151. 



J See Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. i, p. 150. 



§ If these and the preceding extracts from the baru Ciiand should excite an interest in the 

 Society, it would be an inducement to me to give a few cantos, preceded by a biographical intro- 

 duction on the life of his hero, the last emperor of the Hindus, as papers for the Transactions 

 of the Society. 



