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In the Vedic literature of India, there are many descriptions
of flying machines that are generally called Vimanas. India's national epic, The
Mahabharata, is a poem of vast length
and complexity.
According to Dr.
Vyacheslav Zaitsev: "the holy Indian Sages, the Ramayana for
one, tell of "Two storied celestial chariots with many windows"
"They roar like off into the sky until they appear like comets." The
Mahabharata and various Sanskrit books describe at length these chariots,
"powered by winged lighting...it was a ship that soared into the air,
flying to both the solar and stellar regions."
There is a just a mass of fascinating information about flying
machines, even fantastic science fiction weapons, that can be found in translations of the
Vedas (scriptures), Indian epics, and other ancient Sanskrit text.
There are no physical remains of ancient Indian
aircraft technology but references to ancient flying machines are commonplace in
the ancient Indian texts. Several popular ancient epics describe their use
in warfare. Depending on one's point of view, either it contains some of the earliest
known science fiction, or it records conflict between beings with weapons as powerful and
advanced as anything used today.
Above all we need to
remember: absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Introduction
Some
Puranic accounts of Air-Chariots
References
from Ancient Literature
India
had a Superior Civilization
Ancient
Writings tell of UFO visit in 4,000 B.C.
Fly the Friendly
skies in Air India Vimanas
Flying machines in old Indian
Sanskrit texts
Chariots of The Gods
Vymaanika Shaastra Aeronautics of Maharshi Bharadwaaja
Ancient nuclear blasts
Did Man Reach The Moon Thousands Of Years Ago?
High-Tech Vedic Culture
Mysteries from Forgotten Worlds
Soaring Through Ancient Skies
Space Heroes of Old
India
Have We Shattered the Atom Before?—Signs of a Former Nuclear Age
Ancient Indian Spacecraft And Aircraft Technology
***
Grandiose time scales
Hinduism’s
understanding of time is as grandiose as time itself. While most cultures base
their cosmologies on familiar units such as few hundreds or thousands of years,
the Hindu concept of time embraces billions and trillions of years. The
Puranas describe time units from the infinitesimal
truti, lasting 1/1,000,0000 of a second to a mahamantavara of 311 trillion
years. Hindu sages describe time as cyclic, an endless procession of
creation, preservation and dissolution. Scientists such as Carl
Sagan have expressed amazement at the accuracy of space and time
descriptions given by the ancient rishis and saints, who fathomed the secrets of
the universe through their mystically awakened senses.
(source: Hinduism Today April/May/June 2007
p. 14).
"European
scholarship regards human civilization as a recent progression starting
yesterday with the Fiji islander, and ending today with Rockefeller, conceiving
ancient culture as necessarily half savage culture." It is a superstition
of modern thought that the march of knowledge has always been linear."
"Our vision of "prehistory" is terribly inadequate. We have not
yet rid our minds from the hold of a one-and-only God or one-and-only Book, and
now a one-and-only Science."
~ wrote
Shri
Aurobindo Ghosh
(1872-1950) most original philosopher of modern India.
For more refer to chapter on Quotes21_40).
Unlike time in both
the Judeo-Christian religious tradition and the current view of modern science Vedic
time is cyclic. What goes around come around. The
Vedic universe passes through repetitive cycles of creation and destruction.
During the annihilation of the universe, energy is conserved, to manifest again
in the next creation. Our contemporary knowledge
embraces a version of change and progress that is linear. The
ascendancy of Christianity brought the first major shift to historiography as
handed down by the Greeks. Rejecting the cyclic
understanding of existence, Augustine (AD 343-430) saw history as
moving in a linear path, purposely from point A to point B.
(source: Searching
for Vedic India – By Devamrita Swami p.
335 and 47).
“The ancient Hindus could
navigate the air, and not only navigate it, but fight battles in it like so many
war-eagles combating for the domination of the clouds. To be so perfect in
aeronautics, they must have known all the arts and sciences related to the
science, including the strata and currents of the atmosphere, the relative
temperature, humidity, density and specific gravity of the various gases...”
~ Col. Henry S Olcott (1832 – 1907) American
author, attorney, philosopher, and cofounder of the Theosophical
Society in a lecture in Allahabad, in 1881.
***
"absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."
- Dr Carl Sagan
(1034 - 1996)
"Facts do not cease to exist
because they are ignored." -
Aldous
Huxley
(1894-1963).
"Don't let your minds be cluttered up with the prevailing
doctrine." - Alexander
Fleming
(1881-1955).
“To deny to Babylon, to
Egypt and to India, their part in the development of science and scientific
thinking is to defy the testimony of the ancients, supported by the discovery of
the modern authorities. - L.
C. Karpinski
“Thus we see that India’s
marvels were not always false.” - Lynn
Thorndike.
***
Frederick
Soddy (1877 - 1956) English
born scientist. Studied in the University of Oxford. From 1900 to 1902 and was
Chemistry assistant in the University of McGill, Montreal, where he co-worked
with Rutherford.
He received in 1921 a Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry. He
awarded the Nobel
prize in 1921 - ""for his contributions to our
knowledge of the chemistry of radioactive
substances, and his investigations into the origin and nature of
isotopes" In 1903, with Sir
William Ramsay, Soddy verified that the decay of radium produced
helium.
He
had a great regard for the Indian epics of Ramayana
and The
Mahabharat. In 1909 when academics were first beginning to grasp
the awesome power of the atom, he
did not take these ancient records as fable.
In the Interpretation
of Radium (1909) he wrote these lines:
“Can we not read into them
some justification for the belief that some former forgotten race of men
attained not only to the knowledge we have so recently won, but also to the
power that is not yet ours?”
When Dr Soddy wrote the book,
the atom-bomb box of Pandora had not yet been opened.
In 1909 when academics were
first beginning to grasp the awesome power of the atom, physicist Frederick
Soddy wrote in his Interpretation of Radium: "I
believe that there have been civilisations in the past that were familiar with
atomic energy, and that by misusing it they were totally destroyed."
(source: We
Are Not The First: Riddles of Ancient Science - By Andrew Tomas
p. 53). For more refer to chapter on War
in Ancient India.
Ramchandra
Dikshitar (1896 – 1953) was a Professor of historian at Madras
University and author of several books including War in
Ancient India and Studies
in Tamil language and history. In a special chapter of his
book, he waxed poetic over his country’s contribution to aviation –
inventing it!
Said the
proud historian back in 1944:
“No
question can be more interesting in the present circumstances of the world than
India
’s contribution to the science of aeronautics. There are numerous
illustrations in our vast Puranic and epic literature to show how well and
wonderfully the ancient Indians conquered the air. "
"To glibly characterize
everything found in this literature as imaginary and summarily dismiss it as
unreal has been the practice of both Western and Eastern scholars until very
recently. "
"The very idea indeed was ridiculed and people went so far as to assert
that it was physically impossible for man to use flying machines. But today what
with balloons, aero planes and other flying machines a great change has come
over our ideas on the subject.”
…”the
flying vimana of Rama or Ravana was set down as but a dream of the mythographer
till aeroplanes and zeppelins of the present century saw the light of day. The
mohanastra or the “arrow of unconsciousness” of old was until very recently
a creature of legend till we heard the other day of bombs discharging poisonous
gases."
(source:
Technology
of the Gods: The Incredible Sciences of the Ancients - By David Hatcher Childress
p. 168 - 170).
Alexander
Gorbovsky (
?) an expert at the Russian
Munitions Agency
has written:
“The
Mahabharata - an ancient Indian epic compiled 3000
years ago - contains a reference to a terrible weapon. Regrettably, in our age
of the atomic bomb, the description of this weapon exploding will not appear to
be an exaggeration: '.... a blazing shaft possessed of the effulgence
of a smokeless fire (was) let off...'. That was how this weapon was perceived.
The consequences of its use also evoke involuntary associations. '... This makes
the bodies of the dead unidentifiable. ... The survivors lose their nails and
hair, and their food becomes unfit for eating. For several subsequent years the
Sun, the stars and the sky remain shrouded with clouds and bad weather'.
"This
weapon was known as the Weapon of Brahma or the Flame of Indra......".
(source:
Riddles of Ancient History - Alexander
Gorbovsky, The Sputnik Magazine, Moscow, Sept. 1986, p. 137).
Walter
Raymond Drake (1913
- 1989), a British disciple of Charles
Fort, published nine
books on the ancient astronaut theme, the first four years
earlier than Erich Von Däniken's bestseller Chariots of the
Gods.
In his book Gods
and Spacemen in the Ancient East, he wrote:
"The
Ramayana telling in magic imagery the quest of Rama
for his stolen wife Sita, has thrilled the people of India for
thousands of years; generations of wandering story-tellers have
recited its 24,000 verses to marveling audiences captivated by
this brilliant panorama of the fantastic past, the passions of
heroic love, tragedies of dark revenge, aerial battles between
Gods and Demons waged with nuclear
bombs; the glory of noble deeds; the thrilling poetry
of life, the philosophy of destiny and death.
This
wonderful epic of the ‘Ramayana’ the inspiration of the
world’s great classic literature, intrigues us most today by
its frequent allusions to aerial
vehicles and annihilating bombs,
which we consider to be inventions of our own 20th
century impossible in the far past. Students of Sanskrit
literature soon revise their preconceived ideas and find that
the heroes of Ancient India were apparently equipped with
aircraft and missiles more sophisticated than those we boast
today."
He has
observed about today's Spiritual sterility
:
"No
longer can people accept the dusty dogma of the past without question. In
reaction to paganism the Christian Church
dethroned the old Gods and closed men’s minds to the living universe.
We ask ourselves whether God the Creator of countless worlds in many dimensions
possibly paralleled by a universe of anti-matter would incarnate a unique Being
on our tiny Earth for a purpose which is still not clear. The Virgin Birth and
the Resurrection were not confined to Christianity but were common to most of
the religions of Antiquity; some theologians speculate that the Crucifixion of
Christ represented the murder of Tammuz, the Babylonian fertility God on the
Dying King of many ancient cults. The Dead Sea Scrolls
surprise us by not mentioning Christ or Christianity, the Essene teachings
suggest that some of the Christian doctrine originated a century earlier.
Nothing is gleamed of Christ from contemporary sources, surprising in an age of
classic writers; almost all we know of Him is from Church written by imaginatives
decades later. Perhaps Christianity is a
Myth necessary to the evolution and inspiration of man during the lost Piscean
age? Man’s questing soul soars beyond the dogmatic creeds of yesterday to the
cosmic religion of tomorrow.
The
oldest source of wisdom in the world must surely spring from
India
, whose initiates long ago probed the secrets of heaven, the story of Earth, the
depths of Man’s soul, and propounded those sublime thoughts which illumined
the Magi of Babylon, inspired the philosophers of
Greece
and worked their subtle influence on the religions of the West. "
(source: Gods
and Spacemen in the Ancient East - By Walter Raymond Drake p.
25 and 226 and 9 - 49).
Erich von Daniken (1935
- ) known as the father
of the ancient astronaut theory and Swiss author of many books including Chariots of the Gods has
extensively written about the flying apparatus, the Vimanas in
the epics of India and observes that:
"We
must not be cowards
as to dismiss such traditions as pointless myths and acclaim the
authors’ poetic imaginations. The large number of similar
accounts in ancient scriptures turns a suspicion into certainty:
the ‘gods’ used A or H weapons from unknown flying objects.
No, No, revered experts, you must accept it in the end. The
stories of the chroniclers were not the products of their
macabre imagination. What they handed down was once the stuff of
experience, ghastly reality.
"
I
realized that foreign sacred books are arrogantly dismissed by Bible-soaked
Westerners: “Our religion
is incomparably deeper and truer!” I cannot stand this
denigration of other religions.
(source: According
to the Evidence - By Erich von Daniken p. 161 and
Chariots of the Gods
- By Erich von Daniken
p. 1 - 50).
David Lewis
in the book
Forbidden History– Edited By J Douglas Kenyon
has observed that:
“India epic poem the Ramayana, dated
by non-Westernized Indian scholars to five thousand years before Christ,
contains references to its hero Rama, gazing from India’s present-day west coast
into a vast landmass now occupied by the Arabian Sea, an account supported by
the recent under water discoveries. Less celebrated Indian texts even mention
advanced technology, in the form of aircraft used to transport the society’s
elite and wage war.
The writings describe these aircraft
in detail and at great length, puzzling scholars and historians.
The great Indian epics, what’s more, vividly describe
militaristic devastation that can be equated only with nuclear wars. Was there,
at one time, not just an ancient civilization in India, but an advanced ancient
civilization?
Flying
machines…lost continents…are these mythical tales of mythological
lands or do these ancient references provide us with a historical record long
forgotten and then dismissed by Western science as fantasy?
Since the 19th century Western scholars have dismissed the historical
significance of the cultural traditions of ancient peoples, those of southern
Asia included. With a decidedly ethnocentric bias, the expert’s reinterpreted
history as it was taught in the East.
(source:
The Enigma of India’s Origins – By David Lewis
in the book
Forbidden History– Edited By J Douglas Kenyonp. 78 - 188).
The
revolutionary contents of the Vedas
For
a quick glimpse at what unsung surprises may lie in the Vedas, let us consider
these renditions from the Yajur-veda and Atharva-veda, for instance.
"
O disciple, a student in the science of government, sail
in oceans in steamers, fly in the air in airplanes, know God the
creator through the Vedas, control thy breath through yoga, through astronomy
know the functions of day and night, know all the Vedas, Rig, Yajur, Sama and
Atharva, by means of their constituent parts."
" Through astronomy, geography,
and geology, go thou to all the different countries of the world under the sun.
Mayest thou attain through good preaching to statesmanship and artisanship,
through medical science obtain knowledge of all medicinal plants, through
hydrostatics learn the different uses of water, through electricity understand
the working of ever lustrous lightening. Carry out my instructions
willingly." (Yajur-veda
6.21).
" O royal skilled engineer, construct sea-boats,
propelled on water by our experts, and airplanes, moving and flying upward,
after the clouds that reside in the mid-region, that fly as the boats move on
the sea, that fly high over and below the watery clouds. Be thou, thereby,
prosperous in this world created by the Omnipresent God, and flier in both air
and lightning." (Yajur-veda 10.19).
" The atomic energy fissions
the ninety-nine elements, covering its path by the bombardments of neutrons
without let or hindrance. Desirous of stalking the head, ie. The chief part of
the swift power, hidden in the mass of molecular adjustments of the elements,
this atomic energy approaches it in the very act of fissioning it by the
above-noted bombardment. Herein, verily the scientists know the similar hidden
striking force of the rays of the sun working in the orbit of the moon."
(Atharva-veda 20.41.1-3).
(source: Searching
for Vedic India - By Devamitra Swami p. 155 - 157). For
more refer to chapter on Hindu
Culture and Advanced
Concepts).
***
The mention of
airplanes
is found many times
throughout Vedic literature, including the following verse from the
Yujur-Veda
describing the movement of such machines:
"O royal skilled engineer, construct sea-boats, propelled on water by our
experts, and airplanes, moving and flying upward, after the clouds that reside
in the mid-region, that fly as the boats move on the sea, that fly high over and
below the watery clouds. Be thou, thereby, prosperous in this world created by
the Omnipresent God, and flier in both air and lightening." Yajur
Veda, 10.19) (Please refer to the Chapter ' Advanced
Concept in Hinduism)
The Rg
Veda, the oldest document of the human race includes references to the following modes
of transportation:
Jalayan
-
a vehicle designed to operate in
air and water. (Rig Veda 6.58.3)
Kaara-
Kaara-
Kaara-
Kaara-
Kaara-
Kaara-
a vehicle that operates on ground and in water. (Rig Veda 9.14.1)
Tritala-
Tritala-
Tritala-
Tritala-
Tritala-
Tritala-
a vehicle consisting of three stories. (Rig Veda 3.14.1)
Trichakra Ratha -
Trichakra Ratha -
Trichakra Ratha -
Trichakra Ratha -
Trichakra Ratha -
Trichakra Ratha -
a three-wheeled vehicle designed to operate in the
air. (Rig Veda 4.36.1)
Vaayu Ratha-
Vaayu Ratha-
Vaayu Ratha-
Vaayu Ratha-
Vaayu Ratha-
Vaayu Ratha-
a gas or wind-powered chariot. (Rig Veda 5.41.6)
Vidyut Ratha-
Vidyut Ratha-
Vidyut Ratha-
Vidyut Ratha-
Vidyut Ratha-
a vehicle that operates on power. (Rig Veda 3.14.1).
Kathasaritsagara
refers to highly talented woodworkers called Rajyadhara and Pranadhara.
The former was so skilled in mechanical contrivances that he could make
ocean crossing chariots. And the latter manufactured a flying chariot to
carry a thousand passengers in the air. These
chariots were stated to be as fast as thought itself.
(source:
India
Through The Ages: History, Art Culture and Religion - By G. Kuppuram
p. 532-533).
According to Dr.
Vyacheslav Zaitsev: "the holy Indian Sages, the Ramayana for
one, tell of "Two storied celestial chariots with many windows"
"They roar like off into the sky until they appear like comets." The
Mahabharata and various Sanskrit books describe at length these chariots,
"powered by winged lighting...it was a ship that soared into the air,
flying to both the solar and stellar regions."
(source: Temples
and Spaceships - By V. Zaitsev - Sputnik, Jan. 1967 and Hinduism
in the Space Age - By E. Vedavyas p. 31-32). For
more refer to chapters on Sanskrit
and War in Ancient
India. Also Refer to Vymanika
Shashtra - Aeronautical Society of India.
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