Mahabharata : A Legendary Sci Fiction
Mahabharata and Ramayana are the two great epics of India. These two Kavyas are considered sacred to Hindus as they focus on Lord Rama in Ramayana and Lord Krishna in Mahabharata. As a mythphile and a beginner-Vernian, I admire at these two epics as a complicated- analytical science fiction. And I got crazy, when I was able to connect some of the stuffs in these epics to our present science. stuffs. Cool some !! They had some sort of voice control upon their weapons. Unless a mantra is chanted, one couldn't use the weapon. And those controls were universal, like whoever has the knowledge of those mantras, they could use that weapon. They also scripted their weapons. Karna was able to use the arrow given Lord Indra only once, as digitally speaking, Indra scripted the weapon with some if conditions. And Karna planned it to use against Arjuna, but it was obviously used against Ghatodkacha, under Krishna's Leela. In Ramayana, Janaka upholds a bow, which is too he...