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Fire-Arms in Ancient India

By Jogesh Chandra Roy

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

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  • “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”

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

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  • Dhanurveda 3
  • Rimayana
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Vol. 7 · No. 4
629–634Mahanitakam – Our Text635–650Notes on the Nagarjunakonda Inscriptions651–654Kulasekhara Alvar and His DateK. G. Sesha Aiyar655–679Early Visnuism and Narayaniya WorshipMrinal Das Gupta679–689King Nanyadeva of MithilaRamesh Chandra Majumdar683–702The Sea and Land Travels of a Buddhist Sadhu in the Sixteenth CenturyGiuseppe Tucci689–702The Coins and Weights in Ancient IndiaA. K. Sarkar703–708Fire-Arms in Ancient IndiaJogesh Chandra RoyCurrent article703–709Finger-posts of Bengal HistoryBijoy Nath Sarkar709–715Studies in the KautilyaNarendra Nath Law716–726On Some Castes and Caste-origins in SylhetK. M. Gupta727–734The Chando-Vedanga of PingalaMano Mohan Ghosh735–737On the origin of the Aryan word IstakaJean Przyluski737–740An Inscription of Asoka discovered at YerragudiDineshchandra Sircar740–741Bodhichitta-vivarna of NagarjunaP. C. Bagchi741–742On the antiquity of the name "Kasthamandapa" or "Kathmandu"P. C. Bagchi743–746Identification of BrahmaputraK. M. Gupta746–747MeradaLakshmi Narayan Harichandan Jagadeb747–750Origin of the Lotus-CapitalAnanda Kentish Coomaraswamy750The Gudimallam LingamAnanda Kentish Coomaraswamy751–753GopalaJogendra Chandra Ghosh753–756Early Capital of the Gurjara Pratiharas of MahodayaJogendra Chandra Ghosh757–759The St. Thomas Tradition and a Recent Discovery in TravancoreC. S. Srinivasachari760–768ReviewsSushil Kumar De, Batakrishna Ghosh, D. Bhattacharya769–775Select Contents of Oriental Journals776–778Obituary Notice: Pandit R. D. BanerjiRamaprasad Chanda779–782Bibliographical Notes

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