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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.
A dart being propelled by an atlatl. Some of the earliest evidence of advanced tool use includes remnants of an early type of dart, which can be considered the ancestor of arrows as well as bows. Reconstructions of this system have a range of over one hundred metres (yards) and can penetrate several centimetres of oak.
Terraria has been described as a Minecraft clone by various video gaming media outlets. [81] [87] Terraria sold 200,000 copies in just over a week after its release, [88] and over 432,000 within a month. [89] By May 2022, over 44.5 million copies of Terraria had been sold, making it one of the best-selling video games of all time. The total is ...
A silver Peruvian atlatl from the 12th-15th century Atlatl in use. A spear-thrower, spear-throwing lever, or atlatl (pronounced / ˈ æ t l æ t əl / ⓘ [1] or / ˈ ɑː t l ɑː t əl /; [2] Nahuatl ahtlatl [ˈaʔt͡ɬat͡ɬ]) is a tool that uses leverage to achieve greater velocity in dart or javelin-throwing, and includes a bearing surface that allows the user to store energy during the ...
Lævateinn has variously been asserted to be a dart (or some projectile weapon), or a sword, or a wand, by different commentators and translators. It is glossed as literally meaning a "wand" causing damage by several sources, yet some of these same sources claim simultaneously that the name is a kenning for sword.
Slow motion cameras show the arrow does not begin to spin until it is well past the riser (centre section of the bow), and the most important point is to have consistency in fletching. Shooting a feathered arrow with a bow with a riser shelf, instead of a plastic vane, is wiser since the feathers will compress and flatten while coming off the bow.
A bolt or quarrel is a dart-like projectile used by crossbows. [1] The word quarrel is from the Old French quarrel (> French carreau ) "square thing", [ 2 ] specialized use as quarrel d'arcbaleste (> carreau d'arbalète ) "crossbow quarrel", referring to their typically square heads.
Mixtec blowgun Tlacalhuazcuahuitl depicted in the Codex Bodley. Many cultures have used such a weapon, but various indigenous and aboriginal peoples of East Asia, Southeast Asia, Western Europe, North America, Central America (the Huehuetenango region of Guatemala), and South America (the Amazon Basin and the Guianas) are best known for its historical usage.