Strange Objects and Artifacts
India: Objects
Strange Objects and Artifacts pages that draw on India, each with the sources shown. Start with Brahmashira, Pushpaka Vimana, Saubha, the flying city.
Objects · IndiaBrahmashiraOnce fired, this weapon in the Mahabharata cannot be recalled, and it was turned against the unborn. When two heroes launch theirs at each other, sages step between them, warning that the clash would destroy the world; only one can call his back, and the one who cannot is cursed to live three thousand years. Who gets the curse?Objects · IndiaPushpaka VimanaOn the flight home, Rama gives Sita an aerial tour of their own adventure, naming each place they fly over. The Ramayana's Pushpaka is a flying palace-car built by the gods' architect, stolen from the god of wealth by Ravana, and able to go wherever its owner wishes. Who steers it, and where does it land?Objects · IndiaSaubha, the flying cityKing Salva's flying city in the Mahabharata is said to appear in the sky, on the ground and on the water, sometimes within the same battle, raining weapons on Krishna's city. Krishna's arrows seem to do nothing; scholars see an epic sky-fortress, not a memory of technology. What finally breaks it?
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