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Gada (mace)
The gada (Sanskrit: गदा ''gadā'', Malay: ''gedak'') is a blunt mace or club from India. Made either of wood or metal, it consists essentially of a spherical head mounted on a shaft, with a spike on the top. Outside India, the gada was also adopted in Southeast Asia, where it is still used in silat.
The gada is the main weapon of the Hindu god Hanuman. Known for his strength, Hanuman is traditionally worshipped by wrestlers in South and Southeast Asia. Vishnu also carries a gada named Kaumodaki in one of his four hands. In the Mahabharata epic, the fighters Bhima, Duryodhana, Jarasandha, Balarama and others were said to be masters of the gada.
==Gada-yuddha==
The martial art of wielding the gada is known as gada-yuddha. It can either be wielded singly or in pairs, and can be handled in twenty different ways. Various gada-yuddha techniques are mentioned in the Agni Purana and Mahabharata such as ''aahat'' (आहत), ''gomutra'' (गोमूत्र), ''prabrita'' (प्रभृत), ''kamalasan'' (कमलासन), ''udarvagatra'' (ऊर्ध्वगत्र), ''namita'' (नमित), ''vamadakshina'' (वामदक्षिण), ''aavrita'' (आवृत्त), ''paraavrita'' (परावृत्त), ''padodrita'' (पदोद्धृत), ''avaplata'' (अवप्लत), ''hansmarga'' (हंसमार्ग) and ''vibhag'' (विभाग).
By means of gunpowder it could also be used as a projectile weapon of war. Its principal use was to strike the enemy either from a raised place or from both sides and strike terror into the enemy, especially of the gomutra array.〔(Weapons of War in Hindu Literature )〕
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