{"id":10958,"date":"2020-06-15T11:01:33","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T11:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/?p=10958"},"modified":"2020-06-15T11:01:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T11:01:33","slug":"history-of-lahore-is-tales-of-war-and-peace-amazing-atish-hukas-grenades-of-lahore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/?p=10958","title":{"rendered":"HISTORY OF LAHORE IS TALES OF WAR AND PEACE &#8211; AMAZING ATISH-HUKAS (GRENADES) OF LAHORE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>HISTORY OF LAHORE IS TALES OF WAR AND PEACE &#8211; AMAZING ATISH-HUKAS (GRENADES) OF LAHORE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Atish-hukas-of-Lahore.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"694\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Atish-hukas-of-Lahore-694x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10960\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Atish-hukas-of-Lahore-694x1024.jpg 694w, http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Atish-hukas-of-Lahore-203x300.jpg 203w, http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Atish-hukas-of-Lahore-768x1134.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Atish-hukas-of-Lahore.jpg 867w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 694px) 100vw, 694px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Atish hukas of Lahore<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>History has left us remnants of various times in Lahore. There are clear cut things and there are matters of speculation. We find objects related to war all the time. Broken swords, bows and arrows, personal armour, daggers, huge axes and fancy war things. The most unrecognized things are the concept of Atish hukas, or the grenades of Lahore. These are not just limited to Lahore, but we find such remnants in Rawalpindi and Peshawar areas. Not that these are also found in Afghanistan, which shows the origin of these Atish hukas. Probably Ghazni and Ghor are responsible for them. Their use obvious in battle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Amazing-Atish-hukas-different-perriods.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"698\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Amazing-Atish-hukas-different-perriods-1024x698.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"10959\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Amazing-Atish-hukas-different-perriods.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/?attachment_id=10959\" class=\"wp-image-10959\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Amazing-Atish-hukas-different-perriods-1024x698.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Amazing-Atish-hukas-different-perriods-300x205.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Amazing-Atish-hukas-different-perriods-768x524.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Amazing-Atish-hukas-different-perriods.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Amazing Atish hukas different periods<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Warriors-of-Lahore.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Warriors-of-Lahore-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"10966\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Warriors-of-Lahore.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/?attachment_id=10966\" class=\"wp-image-10966\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Warriors-of-Lahore-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Warriors-of-Lahore-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Warriors-of-Lahore-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Warriors-of-Lahore.jpg 1361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Warriors of Lahore<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sultani-Atish-huka-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"554\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sultani-Atish-huka-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"10963\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sultani-Atish-huka-1.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/?attachment_id=10963\" class=\"wp-image-10963\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sultani-Atish-huka-1.jpg 900w, http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sultani-Atish-huka-1-300x185.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sultani-Atish-huka-1-768x473.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Sultani Atish huka 1<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sultani-Atish-huka-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"740\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sultani-Atish-huka-2-740x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"10964\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sultani-Atish-huka-2.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/?attachment_id=10964\" class=\"wp-image-10964\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sultani-Atish-huka-2-740x1024.jpg 740w, http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sultani-Atish-huka-2-217x300.jpg 217w, http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sultani-Atish-huka-2-768x1063.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sultani-Atish-huka-2.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Sultani Atish huka 2<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sultani-Atish-huka-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"827\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sultani-Atish-huka-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"10965\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sultani-Atish-huka-3.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/?attachment_id=10965\" class=\"wp-image-10965\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sultani-Atish-huka-3.jpg 900w, http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sultani-Atish-huka-3-300x276.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sultani-Atish-huka-3-768x706.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Sultani Atish huka 3<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Roman-hand-grenades.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"512\" height=\"299\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Roman-hand-grenades.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"10962\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Roman-hand-grenades.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/?attachment_id=10962\" class=\"wp-image-10962\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Roman-hand-grenades.jpg 512w, http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Roman-hand-grenades-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Roman hand grenades<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Top on the walls of the fort to discourage warriors trying to breach the fort. Outside warriors trying to breach the fort gates. Or even horse riders discouraging advancing troops. Symbols of it being dangerous there too, like an elliptical figure. All that is possible. It is basically a very thick-walled pottery piece, with scales on it so that it does not slip from the hands. A cotton wick dripped in oil is put in it and then it is filled with gun powder or even some flammable liquid. The wick is lighted manually and within a given discourse of time, the thing thrown at the enemy for results. At times it fires, at times it does not, and perhaps at times explode at the wrong time,\u00a0 injuring those not meant to be hurt. The usual material is black clay, so hardened by some process to be like iron in strength. But the amazing part is still there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Islamic-Hand-grenade-13th-century.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"582\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Islamic-Hand-grenade-13th-century.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10961\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Islamic-Hand-grenade-13th-century.jpg 700w, http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Islamic-Hand-grenade-13th-century-300x249.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Islamic Hand grenade 13th century<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>]Atish hukas for common soldiers, and beautiful Atish hukas for those in power, like the Generals or the Kings themselves. We have a sample of one of these, shaped like a fish. It is a work of pure art. Various armies used these in ancient times, but none as pretty as the Sultani Atish huka of Lahore. Well done Lahore in aesthetics! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HISTORY OF LAHORE IS TALES OF WAR AND PEACE &#8211; AMAZING ATISH-HUKAS (GRENADES) OF LAHORE History has left us remnants of various times in Lahore. There are clear cut things and there are matters of speculation. We find objects related to war all the time. 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