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Mahabharata

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Mahabharata Weapon Claims

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Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute's institutional account of its Mahābhārata critical-edition project; the proper baseline for checking viral weapon quotations against a critically constituted text and apparatus.

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The listed critical-edition and scholarly-translation records do not establish that the Mahabharata's divine weapons were technologies equivalent to modern weapons of mass destruction.

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The listed critical-edition and translation records do not support identifying the Brahmastra as a nuclear weapon.

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