. Indo-Aryans: contributions towards the elucidation of their ancient and mediaeval history. are hung with straps proceeding fromunder the saddle-cloth, or pad. The bridle includes aforehead strap, cheek pieces, gullet, and nose band, all stud-ded with metal bosses. Tassels near the ears are frequentlymet with. A chamfron, sometimes straight, and sometimescrossed, is also generally added, and a martingale of cloth isnot uncommon. The rein is single and plain, never studded as the other parts ofthe bridle are. Itwas most probablyknotted or sewed onthe bit, but in a pieceNo. i66. of sculpture in
. Indo-Aryans: contributions towards the elucidation of their ancient and mediaeval history. are hung with straps proceeding fromunder the saddle-cloth, or pad. The bridle includes aforehead strap, cheek pieces, gullet, and nose band, all stud-ded with metal bosses. Tassels near the ears are frequentlymet with. A chamfron, sometimes straight, and sometimescrossed, is also generally added, and a martingale of cloth isnot uncommon. The rein is single and plain, never studded as the other parts ofthe bridle are. Itwas most probablyknotted or sewed onthe bit, but in a pieceNo. i66. of sculpture in the Indian Museum, brought from BhuvanesVara, the joint dis-. * Maruts, together worshipped with sacrifices, standing in the car drawnby spotted horses, radiant with lances, delighted 1)y ornaments. Wilsons RigVeda, II., 303. t Lalita Vistara, p. 17. [ 335 ] plays a chaste floral ornament, most likely the representationof a metal boss, occupying; the place of the buckle. (Wood-cut No. 166.) A positive buckle in the sense in which theword is now understood I ha\e now here met witli in ancientIndian sculptures, nor a description of it in Sanskrit form of the bit is not perceptible, but rings are occasionalIv seen which sucrcfcst theSnaffles. , r m , , . idea of a snafnc; and the Agni Purana recommends five different kinds of snaffles as the most ap-propriate. One of these is said to have been wavy (goiniitra)^another, crooked (kutila), a third, twisted or plated (veiii)the fourth, a chain of lotuses or rings (Padmaniandalanidld),,and the fifth, jointed (garbJiika). These are very differentfrom what Arrian describes in his Indica. He
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