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cannonballs made of iron or having tiny bullets stuffed within and bullets made of lead for the small Gun (Laghunālārtha) or made of some other metal capable of exploding IV. 7. 206-210 efeis to Sulphur, nitre, haritāla, lead powder, Hingula, Känta rajus, Karpūra. Jotur Nili(rasa), Sauluniryasa! - all these mixed up equally or Drone tionately combined to create the Gun powder. Their nomenclature formulas indicate an indigenous touch and not a borrowed one e alien intruders.
The Greeks alleged to have been referied to by Sukra in
Kavyäni deśabhāşā-vakarokti-r yāvanam matam'' Srutismrti vidā dharma-dharmau stas tac ca yāvanam 72
Srut yadibhinnadhai amo'sti pacca tad yavanam matan72 And
Dharmayuddhe tu kūtevai na yuddam kutasadrsam näśanam balavadripoh " na santi niya māḥ ami; Ramakrsneudrādidevaili, kūtamevāśritam purā, Kūtena nihato balirYavano namucis tathā'' 73
But observed minutely
"Yavanan matam"" referred to above as one in which dhari and adharma divested of the dicta of Sruti and snaigti or onc which line of action or code of conduct at variance with the dicta śrutismrti makes it evidently clear that Atharva vedic cult of Vraty. and dasamiyas immune from Upanayana being the progeny of ti intermixture of the three varnas- is meant here. To the last instanı quoting Yavana having killed in line with Namuci refers to Kālayavai an asura born from the 'teja' of Gargācāiya." 4
"Yah Kalayavanaḥ khyālo gargatejo' blu samvrta) bhavisyati vadhas tasya matta eva dvijottama."
It hardly refers to the Greeks following the Macedonian-invasion--- Apart from this
Prthak prthak kriyābhir hi kalabhedas tu jāyatc;
Yam yam kalam samaéritya tannanna Jõlir ucyate75 refers to professional origin of Jatis' along with
