Thread by @cbkwgl

This topic is going beyond control and as usual, knowledge is getting scattered, twitter style. Let me attempt to compile it.
Marathi Poet Ekanatha describes rocket & variety of fireworks called Chandrajyoti.

https://twitter.com/mechirubhat/status/1328557216631189505

Below is the chronology since 6th century as to how crackers were being used in Bhaarata.

https://twitter.com/mechirubhat/status/1328557247035707394

In KautukaChintamani, below materials were used in the manufacture of fireworks as found in the Sanskrit verses describing the formulas:

https://twitter.com/mechirubhat/status/1328557264475549696

Another Maharashtra Author Raamadasa refers to guns and fireworks in various writings. Following are the references in Raamadasa Samagra Grantha.
This can be found in Page 345, 588, 621, 623 and more.

In Tanjore Manuscript Library there is one Sanskrit work called AakashaBairava Kalpa. There, Paatala 62 deals with several entertainment(vinodas) for the king. The following passage found describing a display of Fireworks.

https://twitter.com/mechirubhat/status/1328605957602074629

RaajaVyavahaaraKosha(Raghunatha Pandita) - Baana Agninalika. A tube filled with gunpowder. In AkashaBhairava Kalpa description of #Deepavali Fest is given. King is advised to witness a display of fireworks at nightfall along with tributary princess etc.

https://twitter.com/mechirubhat/status/1328609158925602816

avernier(A.D.1676) in his TRAVELS IN INDIA refers to the use of fireworks in India and Java in the following extracts

https://twitter.com/mechirubhat/status/1328609158925602816

Mahadji Shinde and Madhava Rao Peshwa

We even recorded methods of manufacturing diff., fireworks for Diwali. Small booklet by Lakshmana Pamji Khopkar mentioned few materials. Many of such ingredients are mentioned in KautukaChintamani Gajapati PrataapaRudradeva.

https://twitter.com/mechirubhat/status/1328617328221720576

Abdur Razzaq, the ambassador from the court of Sultan Shah, who stayed in Vijayanagara from April end A.D 1443 till the 5th of Dec‌ 1443, during the term of Devaraya-2 mentions the use of fireworks in Mahanavami Festival.

https://twitter.com/mechirubhat/status/1328620559547002880

Verthema in his work TRAVELS(Argonaut Press, London 1928) writes about Malacca and Sumatra in in Captr-12. He was at Pidar(Pedir) in Sumatra. About the people of this place he observes on page 86 as below

https://twitter.com/mechirubhat/status/1328657745650671618

Marathi Poet Ekanatha, he in poem RUKMINI-SWAYAMVARA which was completed in 1570A.D. gives display of fireworks in marriage procession of Rukmini and Krishna. Chapter 15 of the same book says as below.

https://twitter.com/mechirubhat/status/1328695023777378309

उल्काहस्ता नराः कुर्युः पितॄणां मार्गदर्शनम्।
नरकस्थास्तु ये प्रेतास्ते मार्गं तु व्रतात्सदा ।।
Vaiṣṇava-khaṇḍa of Skanda Purāṇa. It describes rites to be performed on Dīpāvalī.
English Translation of the Verse by GV Tagare

https://twitter.com/TIinExile/status/1328375215240343564

Analysing such verses, professor of Sanskrit and historian Dr. GV Raghavan concludes that crackers have been a part of Dipavali celebrations since earliest times.
He says that their religious purpose was to light the path of the departed pitrs.

https://twitter.com/TIinExile/status/1328378569119023104

This is something I am seeing frequently. What book is this?

https://twitter.com/priya_27_/status/1328388839371542528

13th Century Murals from Tamil Nadu Ulka(metoer showers) in hands

https://twitter.com/vmnair126/status/1328382117298913280

Bhavishyottara Purana says the very first sign of the celebration of Diwali is उपशमितमेघनादम् - roaring with noise as to subdue even the thundering of clouds!

https://twitter.com/bhAratenduH/status/1327605726735454209

What book?

https://twitter.com/ChurmaDaal/status/1328376140466044931

Ulka Danam with a flame torch alone, one gets a good perspective of Ulka and its connect with fireworks also from an independent text by the ancient astronomer Varahamihira who lived around 530 CE.

https://twitter.com/Indumakalktchi/status/1328373823008239625

Ulka is a Samskrt word which is defined as “a torch” but more importantly used as a meteor, a fire which falls from the sky, a firebrand. In Indian legends, Ulkamukha was the name of a preta, who was fire mouthed. Buddhist legends speak of Ulkamukha too.

https://twitter.com/Indumakalktchi/status/1328368837100597249

Fire crackers were mentioned in Bogar's 2 nd Kandam of 7000.
Bogar describes the method of preparing the Saltpetre solution, Vediuppu Cheyaneer for all types of Sarakku Vaippu, of which firework, rocket powder, gunpowder etc. are one kind. From 415 to 418

https://twitter.com/Indumakalktchi/status/1325759974350311425

A Tamil traditional concoction Panai Olai Vedi.