stirrup in Sanskrit

[G.J. Meulenbeld]

Dear Axel,

See also on the stirrup (paadaadhaara) in India:
Simon Digby (1971) -- War-horse and elephant in the Delhi Sultanate: a study 
of military supplies, Orient Monographs, Oxford;
P.K. Gode (1948) -- The history of the stirrup in Indian and foreign 
horsemanship -- between B.C. 852 and 1948, B.I.S. Mandal Quarterly, 1--14, 
also in  P.K.Gode's Studies in Indian Cultural History II, 71--81.

with best wishes,

Jan Meulenbeld


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Axel Michaels" <axel.michaels at YAHOO.DE>
To: <INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk>
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 9:09 AM
Subject: AW: stirrup in Sanskrit


> Thanks a lot, Frits, but I personally don't use the horse for riding, only 
> the bike.
> Axel
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> Von: FRITS STAAL <fritsstaal at BERKELEY.EDU>
> An: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk
> Gesendet: Sonntag, den 25. April 2010, 17:35:07 Uhr
> Betreff: Re: stirrup in Sanskrit
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> Hi Axel c.s.,
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> Please look at M. Sparreboom, Chariots in the Veda, Leiden: Brill, 1985,
> especially pp. 89-90 and the indices. You will find a lot of references
> and discussion, and other publications quoted or mentioned.
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> good luck and don't fall off your horse without or even with them,
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> Frits
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>> Does anybody know the Sanskrit or any Prakrit term for "stirrup" (the
>> thing for climbing horses)? In Hindi, I was told, it is rakaab.
>> Axel Michaels
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> Frits Staal
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> http://philosophy.berkeley.edu/staal
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