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Divine Bows.

Browse named divine armaments and explicitly marked weapon classes.

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Weapons

गाण्डीव
Weapon

The celestial bow

Gandiva

Gandiva is the celestial bow wielded by Arjuna. The Mahabharata’s Adi Parva describes its presentation to him in the Khandava episode.

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कोदण्ड
Weapon

Bow

Kodanda

Kodanda names Rama’s bow in devotional and iconographic usage; it need not denote a single uniform origin story.

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पिनाक
Weapon

Bow

Pinaka

Shiva’s bow is associated with the Janaka court and Rama’s bow-breaking episode.

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विजय
Weapon

Bow

Vijaya

The Vijaya bow is associated with Karna and the weapon lineage of Parashurama in the Karna narrative.

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