| 单词 | bed of nails |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbed of nails bed of nails n. (Also (esp. in early use) bed of spikes) [After various Sanskrit phrases lit. meaning ‘arrow-bed, arrow-couch’, originally śara-talpa (in the Mahabharata, with reference to Bhīṣma's having to lie on the arrows that transfixed him); in quot. 1798 at Additions a after śara-śayyā. Compare:1891 M. Monier-Williams Brahmanism & Hinduism (ed. 4) xxii. 560 This remarkable couch was called by my Brahman companion the devotee's Kaṇṭaka-śayyā, ‘bed of thorns’, though I noticed it had an inscription in Sanskrit letters designating it as ‘a bed of arrows’ (Bāṇa-śayyā). This convinced me that it was intended to represent Bhishma's Śara-śayyā or ‘arrowy bed’ described in the Mahā-bhārata. < as lemmas |
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