Shataghni

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“Hundred-slayer” — a heavy anti-personnel weapon, traditionally described as a stone or wooden cylinder studded with iron spikes, and associated in the Rāmāyaṇa with the defence of fortified cities. Often modernised into a cannon or siege engine on evidence that does not support it.

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