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f 2 MSS bo 4 ay HIGH-TECH WEAPONS OF THE missile" with another one of equal charac- HINDU GODS teristics. When Shiva hurled his "hurri- cane-producing weapon" against Krishna, by Robert Goodman ©1996 the latter neutralised it, unmoved by Shiva's new attempt to defeat him. The contest did he Mahabharata and the not finish at this, so Shiva then used his Ramayana, like almost all the — "incendiary bomb" which Krishna again great classics of India, describe neutralised, this time with his "water many gods and demons. For the bomb". The now angry Shiva then resorted majority, these entities belong to the realms __ to his personal weapon, the pasupatastra, of mythology; but, for others, they are con- which was subsequently destroyed by sidered as real beings that existed in remote Krishna's narayanaastra. Krishna, taking times. What is spoken about less, although advantage of a "lull in the storm", fired his mentioned in the above texts and the _ "sleep-provoking weapon" at Banasura and Shastras (Vedic science texts), is that these Shiva, the latter becoming so lethargic that gods and demons possessed a variety of _ he refused to fight any longer. lethal weapons. Perhaps they were not At last, Krishna could fight against divine but exceptional entities from this or Banasura and his soldiers face to face. some other planet. After a long and bloody battle, Shiva's allies left the battlefield, obliging the The Wars of the Gods defeated god to use his ultimate deterrent, If we look in the Srimad Bhagavatam by _ the sivajvara, a terrifying device that Krishna Dvaipayana Vyasa, we find the destroyed everything within its reach, pro- detailed description of a tremendous battle ducing temperatures 12 times greater than between the god Krishna and the demon _ the Sun and whose shape (described as Banasura, who at that time countered with having three heads and three legs) reminds the help of Shiva who commenced to fire us of modern missiles with multiple heads his weapons at Krishna one by one without and three tailfins. But not even this conquering him—thanks to Krishna neu- weapon could destroy Krishna, who neu- tralising them. tralised it with his narayanajvara that First of all, Krishna counteracted a brah - released such an intense cold that the com- mastra (similar to an atomic bomb) with a _ bination of the two opposite energies pro- similar weapon, and a kind of "air-earth duced a tremendous explosion. The feroci- ty of this battle was comparable to that of modern warfare, both for its destructive effects and for the variety of arms employed (no fewer than 10 are mentioned in the text). But before considering if these arms were real or the imagination of the author of the Mahabharata, it is interesting to examine other Hindu texts. The Mausola Parva, for example, speaks about a death- ray that reduced entire armies to ashes in seconds and caused the hair and fingernails of any survivors to fall out. Even kitchen utensils broke for no apparent reason, birds' feathers turned white in very little time, and food became contaminated. The effects of this ray remind us of those produced by the atomic and hydrogen bombs, cruelly dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Furthermore, another text, the Drona Parva, speaks about the launching of a shining projectile which, on falling to the ground, produced a thick mist in the sky, causing the "clouds" to "roar and spit" blood, while at the same time scorching the Earth's surface. Again, it seems that these descriptions are very similar to those of atomic explosions. Among those researchers who claim that these stories are not legends we count Alexander Gorbovski, who, in his book, Enigmas of Antiquity, mentions a human skeleton found in India that had a very high HIGH-TECH WEAPONS OF THE HINDU GODS he Mahabharata and_ the Ramayana, like almost all the great classics of India, describe many gods and demons. For the majority, these entities belong to the realms of mythology; but, for others, they are con- sidered as real beings that existed in remote times. What is spoken about less, although mentioned in the above texts and the Shastras (Vedic science texts), is that these gods and demons possessed a variety of lethal weapons. Perhaps they were not divine but exceptional entities from this or some other planet. 62 - NEXUS by Robert Goodman ©1996 DECEMBER 1996 - JANUARY 1997