- His thumb! Why? Without his thumb, how would Eklavya draw his bowstring?

You need all 3 fingers to come off the bowstring at the same time.

You need all 3 fingers to come off the bowstring at the same time.

I feel the variation in the wind, I hear the bowstring tighten... And I let go.

In the moonlight I felt your heart Quiver like a bowstring's pulse In the moon's mere light you looked at me

The third time, he losed his bowstring and dropped the arrow just betwix the other two, and into the very center, so that the feathers of all three were ruffled together seeming from a distance to be one big shaft.