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A kestros (Greek: κέστρος) or kestrophendone (Greek: κεστροσφενδόνη), respectively Latinized as cestrus or cestrosphendone, is a specially designed sling that is used to throw a heavy dart.
Vasavi Shakti – The magical dart of Indra. Used by Karna against Ghatotkacha in the Mahabharata war. Vel – Vel is a divine javelin (spear) associated with the Hindu war god Karthikeya. Vijaya – The bow of Karna, one of the greatest hero of the Hindu epic Mahabharata. The bow of Indra is also called Vijaya.
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Muramasa (村正, born before 1501), commonly known as Sengo Muramasa (千子村正), was a famous swordsmith who founded the Muramasa school and lived during the Muromachi period (14th to 16th centuries) in Kuwana, Ise Province, Japan (current Kuwana, Mie).
Richard Wagner used Andvaranaut as inspiration for the title of his musical drama Der Ring des Nibelungen. J.R.R. Tolkien may have been inspired by Andvaranaut when designing the One Ring, both by making the One Ring cursed and by making one of its aspects to allow the wearer to find the other Rings of Power, knowing the location of the wearer of each of the Rings of Power, so that the wearer ...
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A second source, also from the late 4th century, is an anonymous treatise titled De rebus bellicis, which briefly discusses (so far archaeologically unattested) spiked plumbatae (plumbata tribolata), but which is also the only source that shows an image of what a plumbata looked like.
Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy is an action-adventure video game in which players take on the role of two characters; the demigod Sphinx, and the undead mummy Tutankhamun. [2] [3] Transitions between the two are story driven, with cutscenes marking the shift between Sphinx and Tutankhamun. [4] Both characters can interact with switches and pick up ...