Do you think there could have been a pre-historic nuclear war? Text from the Mahabharata.?

Question

Gurkha,
flying a swift and powerful vimana
hurled a single projectile
Charged with all the power of the Universe.
An incandescent column of smoke and flame
As bright as the thousand suns
Rose in all its splendour...
a perpendicular explosion
with its billowing smoke clouds...
...the cloud of smoke
rising after its first explosion
formed into expanding round circles
like the opening of giant parasols...
..it was an unknown weapon,
An iron thunderbolt,
A gigantic messenger of death,
Which reduced to ashes
The entire race of the Vrishnis and the Andhakas.
...The corpses were so burned
As to be unrecognizable.
The hair and nails fell out;
Pottery broke without apparent cause,
And the birds turned white.
After a few hours
All foodstuffs were infected...
...to escape from this fire
The soldiers threw themselves in streams
To wash themselves and their equipment

There's a damn big radioactive area in Pakistani, near Mohenjo Daro.

A 'vimana' is a flying machine from Hindu myth.

There are no volcanoes anywhere near where the Rishi cities were supposed to be. Oppenheimer believed this!

Answer 1

could have.
all myths speak of terrible battles of their gods or of "the gods before the gods".
remaining evidences are explained by volcanic eruptions, comets etc., but those who want to believe believe period.

check out the links.

http://www.hogueprophecy.com/prophecy/oppenheimerstoy.htm
http://www.beforeus.com/indusa.htm

Answer 2

The description sounds to me that a large meteorite had hit the earth at the time of the battle, which by that ancient culture, would have been perceived as a projectile sent from a God to exterminate all involved and would also be considered a punishment. If you look at the topography of the map in India and to the east and north east of the country you will notice a "hole" of sorts where a possible impact may have happened in the 14th c BCE. If a meteorite did fall and cause the described catastrophe, it would look like a nuclear blast with radiation destroying most living organisms within a 100 to 500 mile radius of the impact and causing sickness and bleaching of land animals and landscapes in the area. I believe that is what they witnessed.

Answer 3

well yes.. the skeletons found in mohenjodaro and harrapa civilizations have an unusually high radioactivity....also the pottery and the bricks have been found fused together which requires a high degree of temperature.... the aryan texts are so divided -> shruti(something that is passed on vocally and through hearing e.g. the vedas) smriti(something that is memorized and passed on e.g. manu smriti) and itihaas( or history)
mahabharata and ramayana are part of itihaas text..... so basically they contain the aryan history (rather a part of it)

in mahabharata its mentioned "what is written in this book may be found someplace else.. but what is not there in this book cannot be found anywhere else" Bhagvada gita is a part of this great text.

and yes.. history as we know in the modern world is very limited and ppl seem to be incapable of accepting certain facts because of there new found discoveries which they term as science(this too is pure but in its infant stage)

i firmly believe in Mahabharata and it's possible that ppl then used to fly or used nuclear weapons....the fact is that these books were meant for the spiritual development of mankind and not meant to be accurate historical evidences and also sanskrit is a very complicated language only the one with years of experiece may correctly interpret the texts...

in sanskrit every word has a meaning... and every word has a bhav arth(perceptive meaning) and shabd arth(literal meaning) so its difficult to interpret it really...

but i'm sure that such destructive weapons did exist with the ancient people of earth. our current civilization is very young.

in fact after mahabharat all these sciences were lost... since it was a war in which all the world participated it's elaborately mentioned in the text abt the ppl from europe as well as china...who participated in the war.. and all the races at that time.. abt the seven continents... there is lots in that book ... loooooooootssss :)

Answer 4

Glass produced from melted sand has been stumbled on everywhere in the globe. This same form of glass is likewise stumbled on as a effect of a nuclear weapon. Scientists declare that this glass is brought about by employing meteors, even although that's available it may desire to be brought about from historic nuclear weapons. assessments have been run and shown constrained radiation although. this could additionally be because of the fact they're so old the radiation is almost 0 right this moment. I, in my view, think of that's amazingly available. we could desire to correctly known that historic civilizations have been quite stronger (pyramids for ex)

Answer 5

i think this is a telling of a great battle between man and the gods,but these gods may only have been men with superior technology that kept many people in awe and wonder at miraculous events like flying machines tearing through the sky
so yes nuclear weapons most likely did exist and this lost technology has only just been rediscovered,

Answer 6

The history of the universe is so long ~ covering millions of years ~ that previous intelligent civilisations have been lost without any trace whatsoever.

I would not be surprised that previous cultures, now long forgotten, had knowledge of various scientific practises including the prospect of fearful weaponry.

But before making this supposition a real claim there does need to be positive proof.

Vern

Answer 7

We can't take a poetic description on it's face value,due to inherent overdose of exaggeration being inbuilt in to it.Indian poetry (mostly classical) has the distinction of being one such,specially by the court poets,who over worked their imaginations to praise their masters and lords (kings/queens)and their deeds to the Himalayan heights. Your illustration is a good poetry but zero reality.

Answer 8

No. There would be residual evidence, and there is none. Don't be conned by idiots who trawl ancient texts for selective, out of context quotes to support crazy theories!

Check out the 'Bad Archaeology' website for a good debunking of this and other rubbish!

http://www.ramtops.co.uk/

Answer 9

It would have left unmistakable traces of radiation and fallout patterns that weren't detected until the late 1940s.....right after atomic bomb tests started.
I go with the volcano theory

Answer 10

Sounds like a meteorite!