Ancient Weapons of India
In the History of India or any another ancient civilization has many blood marks at every page of the history. Some civilizations started war with Swords, Spears and Talwars and some started with lathi. Lathi is one of the oldest weapon of the world. The martial arts are very deep rooted in the Indian rural lifestyle.
You can imagine with one incident the capacity of the soldiers and their body modification with ancient methods in martial arts, where I came across a dumble shaped stone of above 200 kilograms weight at Golconda fort Gym of few centuries old. The amazing part of ancient martial arts concentrate on each and every part of the body to transform every inch of a body in to a strong weapon at the same time as a defensive power .
Special Training on Weapons and Favorite Weapons of the warriors:
Every warrior will be trained with all the weapons still only love to improve his skills in one chosen weapon. Some warriors like King Rama use many weapons but he is a great warrior of all time uses Bow & Arrow as main weapon. In the ancient scripts it is mentioned as he uses his Bow ( named as Kodanda ) is so powerful and fast that he aims and shoots the arrows at a high speed.
at one point he killed 14000 demons in a half hour time with his arrows. The arrows released by any warrior are equipped with a power of him, same time in ancient India the arrows are directed towards the target like a missile with the secret power of the warrior which is called and mentioned as a Astra. The great warrior King Rama has many Astras which can be applied through the arrows and reach any distance and can target any hidden target.
In Archery , there are so many warriors who got their own place in the history of India. The Stories and journey of ancient warriors cannot be compared to the modern warriors, still there is a very powerful and well know warrior was there at India with mesmerizing and unbelievable skills of Archery. He saved many lives and fought against guns of the British above the logics even surprising the with many more secret capabilities which couldn't be transferred to the next generations. This warrior also had amazing healing capabilities and ayurvedic knowledge, which was personally by his followers. I will reveal this suspense about him...he is Alluri Seetarama Raju. Many incidents proved that he has many super natural powers and capabilities also. I will try to make another post specially on the Ancient warriors.
The method of choosing a Weapon:
Every warrior is an artist, ebbed the art of using the weapon in to this soul and sub conscious mind. The weapon and artist who handles the weapon have same soul and they both behave in same manner to attain the results. The real warrior while handling the weapon never calculates the result, because those who calculates and measures the results of the weapon every time he uses will never attain the real power.
Every human have a special tone of body which will be more suitable for a weapon at the same time the warrior also loves on particular weapon and makes it as a part of this body. The real artist makes the weapon as a part of his body. Every Kshatriya must be familiar with the Dhanurvidya (Archery). So learning many weapons is common but getting special skills are different. Men with a wide body and want to fight with the hands mostly prefer Gada - Mace.The Warrior with a high concentration and long distance targeting capabilities choose Archery.