Someone asked what is the meaning of "Murchchdhana"?
"murchha" is मूर्छा meaning "unconsciousness".
The later part seems to come from the Sanskrit word Sādhanā साधना literally meaning "a means of accomplishing something".
So this weapon seems to be the one which was used to make a person unconscious. It appears to me that it is indicating towards the same weapon which is called by the name of Shakti at many places.
Here is a narrative of how this weapon worked during the Ram-Ravana war in Ramayana:
[QUOTE]He combined his skills of sorcery and deceptive warfare, repeatedly vanishing and reappearing behind Lakshmana's back to catch him off-guard, when used his fiercest and deadliest weapon, Shakti. On being impaled in the back by the weapon, Lakshmana fell unconscious, poised to die precisely at the following sunrise. His life was saved by Lord Hanuman, who kidnapped the Rajvaidya (royal physician) Sushena from the Lankan fortress and brought the whole mountain of Dronagiri from the Himalayas to Lanka overnight to find the remedy (the magical herb - Sanjivani) for the weapon used by Indrajit. [Ref]
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So we can guess about the weapon and the root words : मूर्छा and साधन...
"murchha" is मूर्छा meaning "unconsciousness".
The later part seems to come from the Sanskrit word Sādhanā साधना literally meaning "a means of accomplishing something".
So this weapon seems to be the one which was used to make a person unconscious. It appears to me that it is indicating towards the same weapon which is called by the name of Shakti at many places.
Here is a narrative of how this weapon worked during the Ram-Ravana war in Ramayana:
[QUOTE]He combined his skills of sorcery and deceptive warfare, repeatedly vanishing and reappearing behind Lakshmana's back to catch him off-guard, when used his fiercest and deadliest weapon, Shakti. On being impaled in the back by the weapon, Lakshmana fell unconscious, poised to die precisely at the following sunrise. His life was saved by Lord Hanuman, who kidnapped the Rajvaidya (royal physician) Sushena from the Lankan fortress and brought the whole mountain of Dronagiri from the Himalayas to Lanka overnight to find the remedy (the magical herb - Sanjivani) for the weapon used by Indrajit. [Ref]
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So we can guess about the weapon and the root words : मूर्छा and साधन...
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