"The Hindu God of Fire" - Fox news reports on Agni-V

[jbond197]

so Agni is a Hindu missile?

Nope - It's an Indian missile. A weapon to defend Indians of all caste, creed and color..

named after a hindu god?

wrong again. Agni means fire.. God of fire is named Agni - Dev..

 

[RayKalm]

Agni is another word to say the goddess of fire.. accept it or not India, you named your missile after Hinduism.

 

[Rig Vedic]

Why run away from facts ?

Agni 5 is China-centric, are you to naive to understand that?

Equations between nations can change. Capabilities are required regardless.

 

[ares]

so Agni is a Hindu missile?
named after a hindu god?

It is not God but an Element of nature(Fire, water , Earth , Ether,Sun) ...most Indian missiles are named after natural Elements(not the one from the periodic tables.)


Agni(Fire)
Prithvi(Earth)
Akash(Sky )
Surya(Sun)
Sagarika(Oceanic)

with the exception of Nag(Cobra), Trishul(Trident), Dhanush(archer's bow) and Bhramos(from the rivers Brahmaputra-Moskova)

 

[Lyrical Mockery]

Agni is another word to say the goddess of fire.. accept it or not India, you named your missile after Hinduism.

you are so wrong. Agni is fire. No hindu calls the fire god as agni, he is always refered as Agni Dev. the point that you wrote goddess while the fire god is a GOD shows how much you know about this subject.

well, we've clarified enough. no need to do again. your wish to accept the truth or not.

 

[Bharthi]

Agni (Sanskrit: अग्न&#2367 is a Hindu deity, one of the most important of the Vedic gods. He is the god of fire.

Agni - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Rig Vedic]

so Agni is a Hindu missile?
named after a hindu god?

It is a civilizational name. A civilization of which someone like APJ Abdul Kalam is a proud member.

 

[StingRoy]

Agni is another word to say the goddess of fire.. accept it or not India, you named your missile after Hinduism.

Believe what you want... but while you are at it.. please also do us a favor and search us a god for Prithvi or Tejas, etc, or for that matter for anything and everything that the Indian defence system develops and operates. Would be a handy list for us.

In India, we consider the 5 elements as the basic ingredients of life: Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Ether. The DRDO has decided to name the missiles on the basis of these 5 elements. Prithvi (Earth), Akash (Sky/Ether), Agni (Fire). We will have to wait for missiles to be named after Air and Water... unless there is some project carrying these names

Agni or not, the missile's potency will remain the same no matter what it is named.

 

[sangsharma]

Agni is another word to say the goddess of fire.. accept it or not India, you named your missile after Hinduism.

Wrong...in hinduism we have a god...not goddess of fire. And his name is Agnideva. This missile is named after the element "Fire: Agni in Hindi and Sanskrit".

Similarly we have named others, "Akash: Sky", "Prithvi: Earth".

 

[Lyrical Mockery]

Agni (Sanskrit: अग्न&#2367 is a Hindu deity, one of the most important of the Vedic gods. He is the god of fire.

Agni - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"The word agni is Sanskrit for "fire" (noun), cognate with Latin ignis (the root of English ignite), Russian огонь (ogon), Polish "ogień", and Lithuanian ugnis—all with the meaning "fire", with the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European root being h₁égni-. Agni has three forms: fire, lightning and the sun.[3]"


From the same page.


The name Agni for the missile means Fire. It has nothing to do with any religion.

 

[roshangjha]

Agni is another word to say the goddess of fire.. accept it or not India, you named your missile after Hinduism.

Yaar, India is a country with more than 80% Hindu people. Though we have not named it on the Hindu God, there is nothing to be ashamed of if it was to be named after a Hindu God. Why do you care? We would be proud if it was named after a Hindu God.

However, we do not name our missiles on Hindu Gods. These are just Hindi words.

 

[Tamizhan]

. We will have to wait for missiles to be named after Air and Water... unless there is some project carrying these names

Varunastra - Torpedo by DRDO.

As for Vayu/Pawan...no idea..Maybe something is cooking

People dont loose much sleep over the names. It's basically some Pakistanis trolling because in their alternate universe India is constitutionally a Hindu country whereas in reality it isn't.

The name Agni in this context denotes the element Fire in Sanskrit.

But even if it denotes Hindu God of fire, so what ? Atleast we don't use the names of Turkic or Afghan invaders' name for then

 

[FairAndUnbiased]

India is on its way to becoming a superpower.

Indian Ocean will become India's Ocean.

This is a dangerous precedent. That means India is a threat to the world.

 

[Tamizhan]

Yaar, India is a country with more than 80% Hindu people. Though we have not named it on the Hindu God, there is nothing to be ashamed of if it was to be named after a Hindu God. Why do you care? We would be proud if it was named after a Hindu God.

However, we do not name our missiles on Hindu Gods. These are just Hindi words.

Very well said. There is nothing to be ashamed in that even if it was such, after all it is still our culture.

BTW they are not Hindi words, rather sanskrit. Fire in Hindi is Aag.

 

[Lyrical Mockery]

India is on its way to becoming a superpower.

Indian Ocean will become India's Ocean.

This is a dangerous precedent. That means India is a threat to the world.

So you think buddy. The world thinks differently