Did Hindus had atomic bombs thousands and thousands of years ago?

[RomaIndian]

With the apparent discovery of this radiated area, parallels were quick drawn to the Mahabharata, the Indian epic. It reads:



... (it was) a single projectile

Charged with all the power of the Universe.

An incandescent column of smoke and flame

As bright as the thousand suns

Rose in all its splendor...



...it was an unknown weapon,

An iron thunderbolt,

A gigantic messenger of death,

Which reduced to ashes

The entire race of the Vrishnis and the Andhakas.



...The corpses were so burned

As to be unrecognizable.

The hair and nails fell out;

Pottery broke without apparent cause,

And the birds turned white.



After a few hours

All foodstuffs were infected...

....to escape from this fire

The soldiers threw themselves in streams

To wash themselves and their equipment.

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ancien...mic_07.htm



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I find this very fascinating - hard evidence provided

[Pandyan]

No. Stop starting garbage threads.

[Guest]

Probably not. What matters more is how many we have now <img src='http://www.india-forum.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

[HareKrishna]

The weapons mentioned in Puranas were special arrows given by gods to specific heroes.This arrows can't be considered nuclear weapons.