Pre-modern Warfare:India And Elsewhere

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I had forwarded this query to someone and here's the response:

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1. Manasollasa is a later work <i>(this is pertaining to other thread by fred_ml so ignore it here.. - Viren)</i>

2. The mechanical war machines are mentioned in the ancient works of
Ramayana and Mahabharata; Purana's have description of such machines.

3. The design and deployment of such machines needs to be looked in the
works related to 'Vaastu-Tantra', the upaveda related to Atharva shastra.

4. The present Vasstu studies know of mainly the buildings, land scape. The
older tradition of Matanga, Maya dealing with the water engineering, Fort
constructions, weapons management for the army of the kings- seem to have
been lost or needs exploration. The fascinating tradition of 'astra-vidya'
weapons of war fare' in the Hindu traditions is a research area. The messing
up of this study has been due to the shrouded discussions related to
'iron-horse-chariot-sword' and the like. The exploration of the metallurgy
of ancient India, non-iron weapons, weapons of words (Mantra-astra
/Dhanurveda) pose dimensions of great challenge. With the existing
understanding of Veda as 'nomads poetry of a certain land and period in a
PIE language' is not going to unravel the secrets of
mind-matter-consciousness energy related transformations.

5. As long as one relies on the 'free-bi's' for such investigations there
will be no progress. The interested should bring in resources to support
study and investigation with the right sources. The study ending up as a
fancy book and a 'Video reconstructed by explanations' for a channel is not
going to make any relevance. If there is an Indian/Hindu model like that of
Templeton foundations who get serious with an investment in the dimension of
religious sciences research, the progress can be seen here.

6. Several crore's is being sunk in the hope of finding a model of 'weapon'
like that of the 'Sudarshana chakra' deployed by Sri Krishna in the Purana's
/Bahrata. The result is a ending up with 'Satsung' than any tangible
material lab related work. On the contrary, Defense strategists are
systematically exploring the issues of Mind-Matter transformation based on
the details in the Vedic traditions for deployment in the global
applications of defense, communications, health benefits and the like. The
two models are very clear.

Regards

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