A STORY IN MAHABHARTA

BHISHMA HAD NERRATED THE FOLLOWING STORY OF SWORD INVENTION TO PANDU SON NAKULA WHICH STANDS RECORDED IN THE SHANTIPARAVA SECTION OF MAHABHARATA:

The world was all darkness and silence prevailed at first. Then Brahama was born. He created the five elements. Thence afterwards appeared space, time and mass which led to the creation of firmament, stars, sun, moon, planets, years, months, days, seasons etc. Then Brahama created sages Maricha, Atri and Rudri. And thence were born sea animals, land animals, and the birds by process of Andaj, Jeraj, Sethaj and utabhuja. Also were thus evolved Deva, Pritagana, Gandharava, Nymphs, Rakshasa.

After the above creations, Brahama created Dharama. When the sages, Acharyas, purohits and all devas, Rishis, munis, etc were engaged in the study of Vedas and spread of Dharma thence there arose cupidity, avarice, jealousies, anger, arrogance etc that led the uprightous kings (danavas) like Hirnakashpu, Hirnakasha, Virochana, Shambar etc to transgress the limits of Dharama and thus started commiting injustice & cruality on the devas & public. The devas approached Brahama and protested against the evil doings of the Danavas or Asura-like like kings.

As a consequence, God Brahama took several sages with him went to Himalaya to perform a great Yagna, the purpose of which was to creat a Asmim ‘shakti' which would correct the evil doings of the uprightous rulers over their innocent subjects and set the rule of Dharma or justice.

The Divine Sword is stated to be created during this Yajna performed by god Brahma and a host of other celebrated Vedic sages somewhere on the mountain ranges of Himalaya. The age is stated to be the threshold of Krityuga/Duwaperyuga. During this prolonged Yajna performed on Himalayan somewhere, an extremely terrible,immense, fearfull, deadly, tall and slim Shakti…. ‘black-in-looks' appeared out from the Yajna fire. The earth shook terribly; there was an upheavel in the ocean; the mountains started trembling; the giant trees simply started to fall. There was an extreme terror & fear every where……….. This terrible, fearful immense, slim & tall Shakti was none other than the DIVINE SWORD!!! The purpose of the ‘Sword creation' was to protect the ‘Good' from the ‘Evil', the ‘Devas' from the excesses of ‘Danvas' the ‘Innocents' from the ‘Wickeds'.

“Thus appeared the Divine Sword, the Devi Kharag….The Cruel, The Fearful, Powerful, Fiery, Unassailable, Affording Wealth, Giving Victory, and the Source of Maintaining Dharma…………….”

This revolutionary ‘creation' simply ushered in a terrible revolution in human history. The same kind of revolutions had already occurred earlier with the invention of “FIRE” and then that of the “WHEEL”.

God Brahma, was the first to wield the Divine Sword ferociously but righteously and he had eliminated all the Evils and the Danvas with it. Brahma gave the Sword to god Mahadeva to protect the ‘Innocents' and destroy the forces of Evil. Mahadeva used it righteously, destroyed the danvas and gave it further onwards to god Vishnu, who gave to Maricha, Maricha gave it to Braman Rishis, the Brahman Rishis, in turn, gave the sword to god god Indra, god Indra gave it to Lokepala, who in turn gave it to Suryaputra Manu. From Suryaputra Manu it passed on to king Kushapa, king Kushapa passed it on to king Ishvaku, who passed it on to king Prurva. King Pruva gave it to Ayu, Ayu to Nahuchha, Nahuchha to Yayati, Yayati to Puru, Puru to Amurtarya, Amurtarya to Bhumyshya, Bhumishya to king Bharata, king Bharta to Alvila from whom it was passed on to warrior king Dhundhumar, a great king of Ayudhya. By this way of inheritance, the Divine Sword finally passed on to king of the Kambojas.

Dhundhumarach Kambojo Muchukundastoalbhayat:

Muchukundan Marutashach Marutadpi Rayat (see Mahabharata 12/166/77)

King of Kambojas wielded it righteously and then passed it on to king Muchukunda, from whom it went to king Maruta, who in turn, passed it on to king Rayata, Rayata to king Yuvanashaya, Yuvanshaya to king Raghu, king Raghu to king Hrinashshava, king Hrinashaya to Chhunak, Chhunak passed it on to righteous king Uchhinar, who passed it on to king Yaduvamsi Bhoja, king Bhoja gave it to king Sivi, king Sivi passed it on toking Ashtaka, Ashtaka passed it on to Prishdachhava, who passed it on to great Drona Acharya, from whom it went on to Kripacharya, Kripacharya finally passed it to you Nakula..........

Dr Pargiter has placed this king Dhundhumar or Kuvalashava at 12th generation down Manu. This shows that this story of Divine Sword is extremely old and goes back to remote antiquity.

The sword is an undoubtedly symbol of POWER & KASHATRYAHOOD. The fact that a king of Kambojas was given this prized sword apparently for his display of chivalary and heroism in the battle field indisputably establishes that the ancient Kambojas were indeed a FAMED WELL-RECOGNIZED KASHATRYA TRIBE. Hence this traditional legend again classes the Kambojas into ‘KASHATRYAS' or warrior classification.
Some Historians have stated that KAMBOJA TRIBE and KAMBOJA NATION of the later centuries took their name from this GREAT KAMBOJA WARRIOR KING.

OILY IRON OF THE KAMBOJA COUNTRY & THE KAMBOJA SWORD:

“The best sword measured fifty inches. They were usually made of Pindara iron found in the Jangala country, black iron in the Anupa, white iron in the Sataharana, gold colored in the Kalinga, OILY IRON IN THE KAMBOJA, blue-colored in Gujarat, grey-colored in the Maharashtra and reddish white in Karnataka. The aSi si also known as Nistrimsa, Visamana, Khadga, Tiksnadhara, Durasada, Srigarbha, Vijaya and Dharmamula, meaning respectively cruel, fearful, powerful, fiery, unassailable, affording wealth, giving victory, and the source of maintaining dharma. And these are generally the characteristics of a sword.

http://www.atributetohinduism.com/War_in_Ancient_India.htm

The Powerful Kamboja Sword from Kamboja Oily Iron and the Famed Kamboja Horses had immensely helped the ancient Kamboja Kashatryas to create and maintain their great kingdoms for centuries and centuries.