Bow vs other weapons - Page 2

Originally posted by: .Vrish.

Although in this serial, Arjun was right next to Drupada, and he aimed his bow skywards and w/ 4 arrows, shot down his 4 lookalikes. 🤔

Drupad would've sliced his throat in a real battle!
The stupid thing is Star Plus never even once showing any of pandavas & kauravas riding chariot, not even in the battle of panchala! (I thought what really happened was arjun jumped from his chariot into Drupad's and captured him. They make them cavalries, while giving the chariots to an unimportant never occurred event: a chariot race during Karna's youth!

Originally posted by: .Vrish.

Although in this serial, Arjun was right next to Drupada, and he aimed his bow skywards and w/ 4 arrows, shot down his 4 lookalikes. 🤔

Originally posted by: Atiratha2.0

Actually if we read vyasa's Mbh, everyone is a well skilled archer, coz their standard method of fighting (for princes/king) is chariot battle. In fact their rank of skill is meassured by ratha/Chariot: half ratha, 1 ratha, 8 rathas, maharatha, atiratha.
BRC was right in depicting this, everyone brings bow and arrows.
In fact even Ghatotkach who's always a fat barbaric giant man on tv was also a car warrior, he even had a huge chariot with 8 wheels!
The battle itself is actually a mix between STAR WARS & BEN HUR. Chariot chasing each other crushing enemy's infantries, avoiding elephants, and shooting endless salvos of arrows, each 'main' car warrior had 'wingman' which they called wheel protectors, like Arjun's wingmen are yudhamanyu & uttamaujas.
But in a massive battle like kurukshetra, losing chariot, fall from a chariot or charioteer getting killed is a common occasion, that's where personal weapon in melee combat is needed. Bheem/Duri/Shalya prefered mace, twins used sword, etc. But contrary to popular believe, Bheem was the second next to Arjun(among 5 Pandavas) in term of archery skill while speeding on chariot. He killed some of the Kauravas with arrows & even surprised Karna by giving him a tough chariot battle!
But 4 pandavas to be honest, weren't top class car warrior, bheeshma mentioned them in the lowest level (1 ratha), ony Bheem was considered 8 rathas. Even Satyaki, Drupad & Dristadyumna were maharatha/atiratha, far above the 4 main protagonists!
That level of skill on chariot wasnt automatically equal when it comes to melee combat on foot, for example; Satyaki who was second only to Arjun on chariot in whole Pandavas army, can't do too much aginst old Burisravas in swordfighting.

That's true. What they showed in BRC - Bhima being defeated by Drona - was hogwash!