Pre-modern Warfare:India And Elsewhere

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I think the story goes like this:

After the carnage at the Pandava military camp where Ashwattama, Kripacharya and Kritavarma murdered the entire Pandava orbat, the Pandavas, Krishna and Satyaki began their search for Ashwattama. They found him in the company of a few sages, dressed as an ascetic. When Bhima rushes out to plug him, he pulls out a blade of grass and invokes the "Brahmashirastra" weapon ..but then he was dissuaded from using it on the bros by the sages.... Since, he couln't deactivate Graduate it, he directed the weapon to the womb of Uttara, coz that was the only remaining heir (and a 3rd generation pandava too at that) to the Pandavas ..

According to lore, the weapons needn't exactly be a "weapon"....when the heroes do tapasya to get a weapon and is successfull , he is given the skill to invoke the weapon on any object....Thinking "scientifically", its possible that at that time, they had some sort of really mean hardware (lost tech now, remember greek fire?) ,...and they propagated the story that the gods themselves gave it to them so as to increase their "stature" and as psy-ops too.......but who knows?