著者

伊藤 頼人

出版者

東洋大学大学院

雑誌

東洋大学大学院紀要 = Bulletin of the Graduate School, Toyo University (ISSN:02890445)

巻号頁・発行日

no.54, pp.167-189, 2017

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Weapons described in the Mahabharata war are sword, spear, club, axe, and supernatural weapons of fantastic image, etc. However, bows and arrows are so often referred. Instead arrows have various kind of name, we don’t know they are different or same definitely. In this paper I focus on a kind of arrow named nārāca. In the Mahabharata arrows are mostly śara or bāṇa. These two words mean “reed” too and some scholars think that these arrows are made of reed. Some arrows in Sanskrit may have shape characteristic and we can distinguish them in form. Some dictionaries teach us that nārāca is an iron arrow. And I will argue following questions. Who use it? To whom it is used? Which kind of words; verbs, nouns and adjectives, are used with it?