[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [War in Ancient India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944) › c6.s1.7 # War in Ancient India c6.s1.7 War in Ancient India c6.s1.7 - **Language:** English ### [c6.s1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944.c6.s1.7) In the \*Mahābhārata\* and the \*Rāmāyaṇa\*, the employment of āgneyāstras is frequently mentioned, and this deserves careful examination in the light of other important terms like ayah, kanapa and tulā-guḍa. Though the commentator Nīlakaṇṭha would easily explain them away as guns, kanapa is perhaps the same as kuṇapa in the Matsya Purāṇa.³⁹ In the Daśakumāra-caritra the term is kanapa, and the reading of the Matsya Purāṇa perhaps may be faulty. The other term, tulā-guḍa which is said to produce a noise like thunder is difficult to explain.⁴⁰ Guḍa is perhaps the same as gula, meaning a ball projected by a lever (tula). In the Matsya Purāṇa ayoguḍa stands for a bullet of iron.⁴¹ - [Previous: c6.s1.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944.c6.s1.6) - [Next: c6.s1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944.c6.s1.8) - [Up: c6.s1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944.c6.s1) ## Cites (2) - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Vālmīkirāmāyaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.ramayana.valmiki) — Vālmīki, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944.c6.s1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944.c6.s1.7) · Pramāṇa