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The Mahabharata describes "nails falling out" and "skin peeling" after a weapon is used. How did ancient writers know about Radiation Sickness?
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The Mahabharata describes “nails falling out” and “skin peeling” after a weapon is used. How did ancient writers know about Radiation Sickness?


Historians call it poetic imagination. But the symptoms described in the ancient texts (The Brahmastra) match acute radiation syndrome perfectly.

I made a deep dive comparing the original Sanskrit descriptions with modern medical records of nuclear survivors. Is this a memory of lost technology or just a coincidence?



by Ok_Strawberry_790

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  1. MrBones_Gravestone on

    They didn’t, they just described pretty bad things that could happen. This is like saying the fate of Lot’s wife is some ancient tech we haven’t discovered yet, or maybe it’s just “poetic imagination”