Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c5.564

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8) *Mode of using the weapons.* (1) Deeds with a wheel are : Chedana, Bhedana, Pātana, Bhramaṇa, Śayana and Vikartana.
(2) *Śūla (spear).* Deeds with this are : Āsphoṭana, Kṣolana, Bhedana, Trāsana, Āndolana and Āghāta.
(3) *Tomara (iron club).* Deeds with this are : Dṛṣṭighāta Pārśvāghāta, Rjupakṣa and Iṣṭaprāpta.
(4) *Gada (Mace).* Deeds with this are : Gomūtra, Āhata, Prabhūta, Kamalāsana, Tata, Ūrdhvagātra, Vāmanamita, Dakṣiṇamita, Āvṛtta, Parāvṛtta, Pādoddhūta, and Avapluta Haṃsamarda.
(5) *Paraśu (axe).* Deeds with this are : Karāla, Avaghāta, Daṃśa, Upapluta, Kṣiptahasta, Sthita and Śūnya,
(6) *Mudgara (hammer).* Deeds with this are : Tāḍana. Chedana, Cūrṇana, Plavana and Ghātana.
(7) *Bhindipāla.* Deeds with this are : Saṃśrānta, Viśrānta, Govisarga and Sudurdhara. Deeds with the Laguḍa are the same as these.
(8) *Vajra.* Deeds with this are: Antya, Madhya, Pārāvṛtta, and Nideśānta. The deeds with Paṭṭiśa are the same as there.
(9) *Kṛpāṇa (Churikā—small dagger).* Deeds with these are : Haraṇa, Chedana, Ghātana, Bhedana, Mṛkṣaṇa, Pātana and Sphoṭana.
(10) *Kṣepiṇī (Kaviṇa—Sling).* Deeds are Trāsana, Rakṣaṇa, Ghātana, Baloddharaṇa and Āyata. The feats of one who fights a bludgeon or cudgel are the following: Santyāga, Avadaṃśa, Varāhoddhūtaka, Hastāvahasta, Ālina, Ekahasta, Avahasta, Dvihasta, Bāhupāśa, Kaṭirecita, Utgata, Uroghāta, Lalāṭaghāta, Bhujavidhamana, Karoddhūta, Vimāna, Pādāhati, Vipādika Gātrasamśleṣaṇa, Sānta, Gātraviparyaya, Ūrdhraprahāra, Ghāta, Gomūtra, Savya, Bhakṣiṇa. Pāraka, Tāraka, Daṇḍa, Ākula, Kabaribandha, Tiryagbandha, Apāmārga, Bhimavega, Sudarśana, Siṃhākrānta, Gajākrānta and Garbhākrānta. (Agni Purāṇa, Chapters 249-252).