Fire-Arms in Ancient India

Jogesh Chandra Roy

Fire-Arms in Ancient India

Vol. 7 · No. 4December - 1931pp. 703–708English

Summary withheld

An automated check found that the earlier summary of this article may not match its text, so it is hidden while it is rewritten. Please read the original PDF below.

Key passages

Chosen by AI from the article's text. Each one is checked word for word against the text before it is shown.

“It should be noted that there is no mention anywhere of any weapon projected by means of fire”
“The bow and arrow were the most important weapons of offence dating back 10 the time of the Rg-veda, and continuing down to the sixteenth centurv, They figured side by side with guns for at least foor”

Works cited in this article

Rima-yana and Mahdbhirata, Calcutta edition
Sukranitisara by Jivinanda, Calcutta
Kautilya’s Arthasistra, Sanskrit Text, (1st edition) by R, Samagastr
Sab.la-kalpa-druma
Veifayanfi 2040

Discussed in this article

People

Kautilya 81
Sukra 13
Vasistha 21
Vasigtha
Visvimitra 3
Sirngadhara
Vaisampiyana
Brhaspati 22

Texts & works

Dhanurveda 3
Rimayana
Sukra-Nitisira
Mahbhirata
Agni Puriga
Vaigtha Dhanurveda

Dynasties, sects & groups

Asuras 7

AI guide

Discuss this record

Ask about the article, its topics, issue context, selected passages, or reading strategy.

Start with the record

I can unpack the summary, turn it into study questions, explain a selected passage, or compare it with the other articles in this issue.

Article order

In this issue

Vol. 7 · No. 4

629–634Mahanitakam – Our Text 635–650Notes on the Nagarjunakonda Inscriptions 651–654Kulasekhara Alvar and His DateK. G. Sesha Aiyar 655–679Early Visnuism and Narayaniya WorshipMrinal Das Gupta 679–689King Nanyadeva of MithilaRamesh Chandra Majumdar 683–702The Sea and Land Travels of a Buddhist Sadhu in the Sixteenth CenturyGiuseppe Tucci 689–702The Coins and Weights in Ancient IndiaA. K. Sarkar 703–708Fire-Arms in Ancient IndiaJogesh Chandra RoyCurrent article 703–709Finger-posts of Bengal HistoryBijoy Nath Sarkar 709–715Studies in the KautilyaNarendra Nath Law 716–726On Some Castes and Caste-origins in SylhetK. M. Gupta 727–734The Chando-Vedanga of PingalaMano Mohan Ghosh 735–737On the origin of the Aryan word IstakaJean Przyluski 737–740An Inscription of Asoka discovered at YerragudiDineshchandra Sircar 740–741Bodhichitta-vivarna of NagarjunaP. C. Bagchi 741–742On the antiquity of the name "Kasthamandapa" or "Kathmandu"P. C. Bagchi 743–746Identification of BrahmaputraK. M. Gupta 746–747MeradaLakshmi Narayan Harichandan Jagadeb 747–750Origin of the Lotus-CapitalAnanda Kentish Coomaraswamy 750The Gudimallam LingamAnanda Kentish Coomaraswamy 751–753GopalaJogendra Chandra Ghosh 753–756Early Capital of the Gurjara Pratiharas of MahodayaJogendra Chandra Ghosh 757–759The St. Thomas Tradition and a Recent Discovery in TravancoreC. S. Srinivasachari 760–768ReviewsSushil Kumar De, Batakrishna Ghosh, D. Bhattacharya 769–775Select Contents of Oriental Journals 776–778Obituary Notice: Pandit R. D. BanerjiRamaprasad Chanda 779–782Bibliographical Notes

Original PDF

Inline viewer

Checking source PDF

The viewer will load here if the archive file is reachable.

Same author