Aravind Srinivas
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3,937 appearances
8 recordings
7 series
first heard Jun 2024
last heard 7 Jul
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Yeah, so there's one weapon called the Divyastra, where you can just specifically target any particular person or a group, and it would just automatically direct itself and do it, almost like a semi-autonomous weapon.
And then Lord Krishna had this weapon called the Sudarshan Chakra.
It's basically a discus.
And then you can just release it and it'll go and specifically identify somebody and chop off their head and come back to you.
It self-directs itself.
So what I was amazed by is how interesting it is in terms of all the autonomy in the weapons, semi-autonomy or autonomy, where the weapons could just be directed at people or directed at a group of soldiers and it would just go and do its job and come back to the wielder.
And there were so many different astras, Divyasra, Varunasra, Nagasra.
Ramasra is obviously the ultimate, the hydrogen bomb equivalent.
And all of these are described in a lot of detail and who has access to it.
And of course, it's mythologized, so it's described as these arrows in the back of your shoulders.
But you could understand it as somebody having access to a lot of weapons.
And then whoever was powerful would go capture and colonize and
gain power, and essentially a fight between a group of cousins.
That's the bottom line of that story.
Exactly.
Yeah.
I mean, that's always been my fascination with those epics and the level of detail with which they described all these weapons and who had access, different levels of access, the status required to have access and how it was used in the wars, different formations of the soldiers.
They had all these like crazy formation structures, like forming the army like a lotus, forming the army like a, you know, there's something called a chakra viha, like literally like it has to have concentric circles.
So you cannot like actually get into the innermost circle without going through the outer circles.
And then you can get killed by each of the flanks whenever you're trying to enter in.
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