Many in the west would have heard of the famous Trojan war, fought in ancient times between the Greeks and Daradanians. Many consider this war to be an important event in Greek mythology, and literature. But not many would have heard of the Kurukshetra war fought between the cousins Kauravas and Pandavas, in a dispute over the succession of a kingdom in ancient India.
Though these wars happened far from each other, with close scrutiny, we can see several similarities and patterns that would raise several new questions which have no answers!
Before moving forward, if you're curious or unaware of the authors of these ancient tales, the story of the Trojan war is depicted by Homer in his books Iliad and Odyssey. And the battle of Kurukshetra is depicted by Veda Vyasa in his book Mahabharata.
Let's take a look at the similarities between these ancient conflicts:
Antique:
Both the Trojan and Kurukshetra wars are very ancient conflicts, Trojan war is believed to have occurred between 1260-1180 BC, whereas the war of Kurukshetra is believed to have happened around 3000 BC.
Enormous Casualties:
According to the Ancient writings, the Trojan and Kurukshetra war was fought with a lot of soldiers. According to Homer, the Trojan war had at least 100,000 soldiers and 1184 ships involved in the conflict. According to the Vyasa, the war of Kurukshetra was fought with an astronomical 2,733,750 soldiers. ( Pandavas army: 1,530,900 Kauravas army: 1,202,850 ) and very few survived the war of Kurukshetra due to the usage of divine weapons provided by gods.
The Intervention of Gods:
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| Gods watching the battle of Kurukshetra from sky |
Though these conflicts are between humans, the gods decided to join the war. Different gods took sides and fought alongside humans, directly or indirectly, as per their interests. These interventions can be witnessed in the Trojan as well as Kurukshetra wars.
Presence of Demigods:
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| Ghatotkacha a Giant Rakshasa slayed by Karna, who is also a demi-god. |
Demigods are those who are half human and half god, These creatures though mortal, possessed extraordinary strengths and yielded divine powers through the gods. Some of these demigods in the Trojan war are Achilles and Aeneas. In the Kurukshetra war, all of the 5 Pandava brothers are demigods. Alongside these demigods, many other Extraterrestrial creatures fought in these ancient wars.
Though this is a very short comparison between two ancient conflicts of the ancient past, it raises a lot of questions as such, who are those gods? Why did they come to planet earth? Why did they breed with humans? Why didn't they stop the war? Why did they provide humans with weapons of mass destruction? Did they intend this to happen?
These are the questions that have no profound answers. But, what we can try to seek is, why did they encourage war? What are those divine weapons? What are its characteristics? Do these wars connect with our current-day conflicts such as Russia-Ukraine war, Yemen conflict, and many other, About which i will write in my upcoming posts.
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