When Tvashta gave Narayana-kavacha that made Indra invincible how could Tvashta himself be killed?

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The Tvashta gave the Narayan Tavache to Indra and how could Tvashta himself be killed later? There are two different things over here.
One is, you can hear me? So these are celestial weapons which are manufactured. It’s like say some companies may now manufacture atom bomb. Now they manufacture the atom bomb and they sell it to someone.
After they sell it, let’s say some company manufactures a very expensive car, a Rolls Royce or something. They sell it to someone. It’s not that they themselves have cars with them.
So especially if there are big weapons like this, the person who is selling a Rolls Royce car, that person, the shopkeeper may not have his own Rolls Royce car. So like that a company may make a weapon, but the company may themselves not have the weapon. So it’s not necessary that the giver of the weapon will always retain the weapon.
And in general, the Brahmanas in Vedic culture, they would usually not keep weapons with themselves. The Brahmanas, they would perform some rites, some practices by which the weapons would come, appear and they would give them to the Kshatriyas because there was division of social roles. So Brahmana’s role was primarily to give spiritual knowledge, not so much to fight or defend themselves.
So they would not have usually weapons and that’s why Tvashta did not have that Narayan Kavacha. He performed the sacrifice by which the Kavacha appeared and then it appeared, he gave it to Indra. And that’s how he remained vulnerable when he was attacked eventually.
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