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Pre-modern Warfare:India And Elsewhere
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03-28-2006, 12:13 AM (This post was last modified: 03-28-2006, 12:35 AM by ramana.)
To be honest I was not aware of seige engines in pre-Islamic India. Thanks for opening my eyes.

A litteral translation would not be useful for instance a hydraulic ram was translated as a water goat.

Can you give a context and some description of where the word occurs in a passage? Some of the more knowledgable folks can provide the contextual meaning.

I suspect 'kantaka' was some sort of a launcher for a pointed arrow type device. Like a giant cross bow akin to the Roman ballista. Could be generic for a hurling device.

The Shila refers to stone. So the Maha(big)shila(stone) kantaka(hurling device as noted above) might be a Big stone hurling device.

Hasti refers to elephant.


I wonder if Artha shastra describes any seige engines? What about Megasthenes?
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