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Sharanga

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Vishnu’s named bow in Indian story. Not Gandiva, not the bow of Odysseus, and not a generic hunting bow.

Also known as Sarnga

Vedic tradition

  • Sharanga is sacred to Vishnu.

    Śāraṅga is Viṣṇu’s named bow, dedicated in epic shelf speech the Gita’s Vishnu-Krishna glory inhabits. A named sharanga sacred to Vishnu, not Gāṇḍīva as Arjuna’s bow and not Odysseus’s bow under a Sanskrit name.

    from Anonymous (Mahābhārata); English public-domain translations · Bhagavad Gita, classical Sanskrit; English PD translations 19th–early 20th c.

    sacred to · sourced · documented

sources

  • Bhagavad Gita · Anonymous (Mahābhārata); English public-domain translations

    Bhagavad Gita (Bhagavadgītā).