Strictly speaking is a bag to carry oats in. (See Haver-Cakes.) It now means a soldier's ration-bag slung from the shoulder; a gunner's leather-case for carrying charges. Source:…
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Either an admiral, vice-admiral, rear-admiral, or commodore. These officers alone are privileged to carry a flag denoting rank. Admirals carry their flag at the main, vice-admirals at the…
Eighth Khanda1. There were once three men, well-versed in udgitha, Silaka Salavatya, Kaikitayana Dalbhya, and Pravahana Gaivali. They said: “We are well versed in udgitha. Let us have a…
1. Uddalaka Aruni said to his son Svetaketu: “Learn from me the true nature of sleep (svapna).
“When a man sleeps here, then, my dear son, he becomes united with the True, he is gone to his own (…
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