Chariots in the Veda
Author: M. Sparreboom
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9789004075900
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: M. Sparreboom
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9789004075900
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: M. Sparreboom
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-08-14
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9004658467
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: U.P. Thapliyal
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2022-10-06
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 1000781011
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The invention and development of the chariot around the third millennium revolutionized the art of warfare and dominated the battlefields for some 3000 years. It seems to have evolved in the borderlands between the steppes and the riverlands. It is believed that the Āryan borrowed the idea of chariot from Sumerians around 2000 bc. It is presumed that these Āryans entered Iran and departed in three branches. One marches westward towards Syria, another eastward towards India and a third stays back in Iran. The absence of chariot in Indus valley civilization suggests that chariot arrived in India with Āryans, who settled here around 1500 bc. They used it as a lethal war machine to conquer the natives. The Chariot has played a vital role in Indian warfare through the ages, spanning over Vedic, Epic, and Puranic times, as attested to by literary and archaeological evidence. The Turk invasion marked by the dominance of cavalry arm brought the curtain down on chariot as a war machine. However, it survived in the Indian milieu in some other incarnations.
Author: Martha Helene Jones
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2008-12-31
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 130419311X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Hebrew data on the Elohim in the Bible, the Zarathustrian Magi who followed the star as it moved across the sky, Zarathustra in the Rig Veda, murders (including Joshu/Jesus) committed by the Levite animal sacrifice cult of scribes who transcribed the Old Testament, lost continents and the Great flood; the Shemsu Hor and the winged disk of the Egyptians; the sons of the Elohim who took wives from the daughters of the Adam; mention of the little people in the bible; and the Rh negative bloodline, lacking in the earthling primate rhesus gene. and much more research.
Author: Sarva Daman Singh
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9788120804869
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Ancient Indian Warfare, the author has pieced together all the available archaeological data and made a thorough study of the entire range of Vedic literature in a bid to present for the first time as complete a picture of warfare as these sources permit. He deals with a period so far given scant attention, or none at all. He stops where virtually all the other writers on the subject begin. The Epic and Buddhist material has been used to support, elucidate and complete the picture of the rearly period. The archaeological evidence has been utilized as fully as possible to add the weight of material proof to literary testimony. The author explores the domestication of horses and elephants and their use for military purposes; the invention of wheeled vehicles and the battle-chariot; the use of metals for the manufacture of weapons; the nature of ancient arms and armour; forts and fortifications; military order and organisation; and the uneasy birth of a moral consciousness evidenced in the development of a code of war.
Author: Raghunātha Purushottama Kulakarṇī
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 256
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Author: Thomas R. Trautmann
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2015-08-03
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 022626453X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Because of their enormous size, elephants have long been irresistible for kings as symbols of their eminence. In early civilizations—such as Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus Civilization, and China—kings used elephants for royal sacrifice, spectacular hunts, public display of live captives, or the conspicuous consumption of ivory—all of them tending toward the elephant’s extinction. The kings of India, however, as Thomas R. Trautmann shows in this study, found a use for elephants that actually helped preserve their habitat and numbers in the wild: war. Trautmann traces the history of the war elephant in India and the spread of the institution to the west—where elephants took part in some of the greatest wars of antiquity—and Southeast Asia (but not China, significantly), a history that spans 3,000 years and a considerable part of the globe, from Spain to Java. He shows that because elephants eat such massive quantities of food, it was uneconomic to raise them from birth. Rather, in a unique form of domestication, Indian kings captured wild adults and trained them, one by one, through millennia. Kings were thus compelled to protect wild elephants from hunters and elephant forests from being cut down. By taking a wide-angle view of human-elephant relations, Trautmann throws into relief the structure of India’s environmental history and the reasons for the persistence of wild elephants in its forests.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2011-07-27
Total Pages: 694
ISBN-13: 9004216200
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Bringing together Hiltebeitel's major essays on the the Mahābhārata, the Rāmāyaṇa, and the south Indian cults of Draupadī and Kūttāṇṭavar along with new articles written especially for this collection, this two volume work offers a comprehensive re-reading of the Indian epic tradition by the foremost scholar in Indian epic studies today.