When Brahma is a brahmana, why does he make and provide weapons to others?

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question it is said that Ram killed Pravana with a weapon given by Brahma now Brahmaji is supposed to be a brahmana so why does he make it provide weapons like this? answer, see brahmanas are not meant to usually use weapons they are not themselves meant to fight but the brahmana is a reservoir of knowledge all kind of knowledge and that includes martial knowledge also so we have for example Drona is a kshatriya but he is teaching he is a brahmana but he is teaching kshatriyas he is a formidable teacher similarly we have Ram he is given knowledge of weapons by Vishwamitra Vishwamitra by that time although he had earlier been a king by now he had become a sage and he was renounced but still he is also given the weapons so the ideal situation is that the brahmanas don’t themselves use weapons but in certain situations they do have knowledge of weapons and they may give that knowledge to worthy kshatriyas so that those kshatriyas can use it so it’s not that brahmanas have to be ignorant of the knowledge of weapons or sometimes by their mystic powers they can even make weapons but usually unless it’s a very great emergency they don’t themselves fight the war that’s how it is