Indian Epics Blog

Nice Macguffin you got there. It'd be shame if someone produced unlicensed replicas of it, eh? (source) Today I'm going to be brainstorming some ideas about weapons in indian epics. Astras are basically supernatural weapons. They have incredibly strong powers and some of them I think need consent from the Gods themselves to be use d. Sword of like Excalibur. Astras https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astra_(weapon) Of all the weapons I read about, the two that are the most interesting were the Teen Baan and the Brahmashirsha Astra, which is featured in the Mabharata. Lord Shiva  [12]  gave  Barbarika  three infallible arrows (Teen Baan). A single arrow was enough to destroy all opponents in any war, and it would then return to  Barbarika 's quiver. The first arrow is used to mark all the things that  Barbarika  wants to destroy. On releasing the third arrow, it would destroy all the things that are marked and will then return to...

Absolute unit  (source ) Parashurama:  I find this story interesting because it's so similar to our modern day stories of killing-machine action heroes with a heart of gold. Some of the plot summary sounds like John Wick, from his calf (dog) being stolen (killed), or like Doom, where Parashurama is the reincarnation of Vishnu. He is a divine power set upon the earth to keep law and order, very badass. Parashurama should be easy to add a modern day twist to. Garuda : Fun fact: the first search result on Google for this story is an airline from Indonesia. That's pretty cool, like if we had a Hermes airline or an Icarus airways, actually scratch that one. I think birds of prey are dope and apparently, so do Indians (this is a generalization) so I think that a story about a birdperson who kills serpents sounds pretty cool. Weapons of the Gods:   Weapons in stories typically serve as MacGuffins, very rarely do we see a super-weapon used in a way that changes...