Obsolete Weapons in the Mahabharata
| Autor: | Andrzej Babkiewicz, Sven Sellmer |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Zdroj: | Religions of South Asia. 16 |
| ISSN: | 1751-2697 1751-2689 |
| DOI: | 10.1558/rosa.24401 |
| Popis: | 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 material evidence is examined, and a hypothesis is presented as to how the weapon was imagined by the authors and recipients of the epic. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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