आर्त्नी

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पृष्ठभागोऽयं यन्त्रेण केनचित् काले काले मार्जयित्वा यथास्रोतः परिवर्तयिष्यते। तेन मा भूदत्र शोधनसम्भ्रमः। सज्जनैः मूलमेव शोध्यताम्।

आर्त्नी f. the end of a bow , the place where the string or sinew is fastened (?) RV. VS. S3Br.

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पृष्ठभागोऽयं यन्त्रेण केनचित् काले काले मार्जयित्वा यथास्रोतः परिवर्तयिष्यते। तेन मा भूदत्र शोधनसम्भ्रमः। सज्जनैः मूलमेव शोध्यताम्।

Ārtnī denotes the end of the bow to which the bow-string (jyā) was attached. The string was not normally kept fastened to both ends of the bow, but when an arrow was to be shot it was strung taut. On the other hand, the legend of the death of Viṣṇu, told in the later Saṃhitās and Brāhmaṇas, expressly contemplates his leaning on his strung bow, which cleaves his head by the sudden springing apart of the two ends when the bow-string is gnawed through.