Fire-Arms in Ancient India

Jogesh Chandra Roy

Fire-Arms in Ancient India

Vol. 8 · No. 2June - 1932pp. 267–271English

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“The exact nature of the Agneya astras would have remained a mystery had not Kautilya divulged the secret. He gives recipes for firc composition as also for poisonous smokes.”
“The fivst 15 called agni-dharane (that which keeps up fire). It con- sists of ‘‘small 0118 made of the dung of the ass, camel, goat, and sheep mixed with the wood of Sarala (Pinus Iongif.olt'a-), Devadiru (Cedrus deodar) cut inte splinters, the leaf of Putitrna (the lemon- grass, Andropogon scharanthus), Guggula (Olibanum), Srivestaka (the resin of the Sila tree, Shorea robusta), and lac.’”””
“The third agni-yoga 15 called T isviasa-ghati (treacherous). It consisted of ‘‘the powder of all metals made red-hot or of lead and tin with Kumbhi {Olibanwm), or with the flower of Piribliadraka (Erythrina indica) and Palada (Butea frondosa), hair, lamp-black, bees’ wax aud oleo-resin of the pine.’”

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Mahabharata
Aitareya Brahmany
Matsya Purana
Dadi-kumara-carite
Vaijayents Kosa

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241–246Mahaparinibbāna-sutta and CullavaggaLouis Finot 247–252Tāranātha's History of Buddhism 253–256Interpolations in the Bhāgavata PurānaAmar Nath Roy 257–266Kuntaka's Conception of GuṇasHaradatta Sharma 267–271Fire-Arms in Ancient IndiaJogesh Chandra RoyCurrent article 272–278The Twin Gods AśvinauV. H. Vader 279–293The Nature of the Mughal ConquestH. N. Sinha 294–301The Rise of VijayanagaraBhaskar Anand Saletore 302–304The Earliest Extant Account of Sher ShahDasharatha Sharma 305–315New Plates of King Bhoja in the Indore Museum [Vikrama] Samvat 1079R. G. Ojha 316–331CatustavaPrabhubhai Patel 332–341Some Images and Traces of Mahāyāna Buddhism in ChittagongNarendra Nath Law 342–350The Buddhist Manuscripts at GilgitNalinaksha Dutt 352The Successor of Kumara Gupta 1Hem Chandra Raychaudhuri 353–357Samudra in the RigvedaAmiya Kumar Chakravorty 357–358The Rasa-pradipa and the Hrdaya-darpanaSushil Kumar De 359–364Bangiya Sahitya ParisadChintaharan Chakravarti 364–366A Note on Iron in the Rigvedic AgeManindra Nath Banerji 367–370Note on GopalaA. C. Banerjee 371–373Nalanda Stone Inscription of YasovarmadevaRamesh Chandra Majumdar 373–375The Natyasastra and Bharata-muniMano Mohan Ghosh 375MahanatakaT. K. Joseph 376Lataka and LatyaT. K. Joseph 377–379Notes on Asoka RescriptsSailendra Nath Mitra 380Indra and PaniniB. N. Krishnamurti Sharma 381–382A Note on CandraprajapatiHiralal B. Kapadia 383–412ReviewsSushil Kumar De, Nalinaksha Dutt, U. N. Ghoshal, Dhirendra Chandra Ganguly, D. Bhattacharya, Niharranjan Roy, Surendra Nath Sen, R. N . Seal, Basanta Ranjan Roy 413–421Select Contents of Oriental Journals 422–424Bibliographical Notes

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