Dhanus

(“bow”) In Hindu iconography, the bow
is a weapon associated with several
Hindu deities. It has strong mythic associations with the god Shiva, who in one
of his mythic exploits destroys the Three
Cities (tripura) with a single arrow. It is
also commonly associated with the god
Rama, whose unfailing arrows slay
Ravana, the demon-king of Lanka.
Aside from these, it is also one of the
weapons commonly carried by powerful forms of the Goddess, such as
Durga. The reason for this can be
found in her charter myth in the
Devimahatmya, in which the Goddess
is formed from the collected radiance
of all the gods and receives duplicates
of all their weapons.