Obsolete Weapons in the Mahabharata: An Attempt at Reconstruction
The paper deals with four weapons that appear in the Mahabharata, but are never, or only exceptionally, employed in real combat: plough (hala), wheel/disc (cakra), thunderbolt (vajra) and trident (trisula). In each case, an attempt to reconstruct the prehistory of the weapon is made, the textual and...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Equinox
2022
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Religions of South Asia
Year: 2022, Volume: 16, Issue: 2/3, Pages: 201-219 |
Further subjects: | B
vajra
B plough (weapon) B trident B Mahābhārata B Weapons B disc (weapon) B thunderbolt |
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