What did these airships look like? The ancient Mahabharata
speaks of a vimana as “an aerial chariot with the sides of iron and clad with
wings.” The Ramayana describes a vimana as a double-deck, circular
(cylindrical) aircraft with portholes and a dome. It flew with the “ speed of
the wind”, and gave forth a “melodious sound”
The ancient Indians themselves wrote entire flight manuals on
the care and control of various types of vimanas. The Samara Sutradhara is a
scientific treatises dealing with every possible facet of air travel in a vimana.
There are 230 stanzas dealing with construction, take-off, cruising for
thousands of miles, normal and forced landings, and even possible collusions
with birds!
Would these texts exist (they do) without there being
something to actually write about? Traditional historians and archaeologists
simply ignore such writings as the imaginative ramblings of a bunch of stoned,
ancient writers.
Says Andrew Tomas, " The Samara
Sutradhara, which is a factual type of record, treats air travel from every
angle…If this is the science fiction of antiquity, then it is the best that
has ever been written.”
In 1875, the Vaimanika Shastra,
a fourth century BC text written by Maharshi Bhardwaj, was discovered in a
temple in India. The book dealt with the operation of ancient vimanas and
included information on steering, precautions for long flights, protection of
the airships from storms and lightning, and how to switch the drive to solar
energy, or some other “free energy” source, possibly some sort of “gravity
drive.” Vimanas were said to take off vertically or dirigible. Bharadwaj the
Wise refers to no less than 70 authorities and 10 experts of air travel in
antiquity. These sources are now lost.
Vimanas were kept in Vimana Griha, or hanger, were said to be
propelled by a yellowish-white-liquid, and were used for various purposes.
Airships were present all over the world. The plain of Nazca in Peru is very
famous for appearing from the high altitude to be a rather elaborate, if
confusing airfield. Some researchers have theorized that this was some sort of
Atlantean outpost. It is worth
nothing that Rama Empire had its outposts: Easter Island, almost diametrically
opposite to Mohenjo-daro on the globe, astonishingly developed its own written
language, an obscure script lost to the present inhabitants, but found on
tablets and other carvings. This odd script is found in only one other place in
the world: Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa.
Aerial
Warfare in Ancient India
The ancient Indian epics go into considerable detail about
aerial warfare over 10,000 years ago. So much detail that a famous Oxford
professor included a chapter on the subject in a book on ancient warfare!
According to the Sanskrit scholar V.R.Ramachandran
Dikshitar, the Oxford Professor who wrote “War
in Ancient India 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 characterized 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, aeroplanes and
other flying machines, a great change has come over our ideas on the subject.”
Says Dr. Dikshitar, “ …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.
We owe much to the energetic scientists and researchers who plod
persistently and carry their torches deep down into the caves and excavations of
old and dig out valid testimonials pointing to the misty antiquity of the
wonderful creations of humanity.”
Dikshitar mentions that in Vedic literature, in one of the
Brahmanas, occurs the concept of a ship that sails heavenwards. “The ship is
the Agniliotra of which the Ahavaniya and Garhapatya fires represent the two
sides bound heavenward, and the steersman is the Agnihotrin who offers milk to
the three Agnis. Again, in the still earlier Rg Veda Samhita we read that the
Asvins conveyed the rescued Bhujya safely by means of winged ships. The latter
may refer to the aerial navigation in the earliest times.”
Commenting on the famous vimana text the Vimanika Shastra, he
says:
“ In the recently published Samarangana Sutradhara of
Bhoja,
a whole chapter of about 230 stanzas is devoted to the principles of
construction underlying the various flying machines and other engines used for
military and other purposes. The various advantages of using machines,
especially flying ones, are given elaborately. Special mention is made for their
attacking visible as well as invisible objects, of their use at one’s will and
pleasure, of their uninterrupted movements, of their strength and durability, in
short of their capability to do in the air all that is done on earth. After
enumerating and explaining a number of other advantages, the author concludes
that even impossible things could be effected through them. Three movements are
usually ascribed to these machines, ascending, cruising, thousands of miles in
the atmosphere and lastly
descending. It is said that in an aerial car one can mount to the Surya-mandala,
travel throughout the regions of air above the sea and the earth. These cars are
said to move so fast as to make a noise that could be heard faintly from the
ground. Still some writers have expressed a doubt and asked “Was that true?”
But the evidence in its favor is overwhelming.
(source:
Technology of the Gods: The Incredible Sciences of the Ancients
p 147 - 209). For
more refer to chapter on Sacred
Angkor
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Has the World
Ended Before?
Charles
Berlitz (1914 - 2003) author of several books, including The Bermuda Triangle, was
the grandson of the founder of the world-famous Berlitz schools, wrote:
"If atomic warfare were actually used in the distant
past and not just imagined, there must still exist some indications of a
civilization advanced enough to develop or even to know about atomic power. One
does find in some of the ancient writings of India some descriptions of advanced
scientific thinking which seemed anachronistic to the age from which they come.
The Jyotish (400 B. C) echoes the modern
concept of the earth's place in the universe, the law of gravity, the kinetic
nature of energy, and the theory of cosmic rays and also deals, in specialized
but unmistakable vocabulary, with the theory of atomic rays. And what was
thousands of years before the medieval theologians of Europe argued about the
number of angels that could fit on the head of a pin. Indian philosophers of the
Vaisesika school were discussing atomic
theory, speculating about heat being the cause of molecular change, and
calculating the period of time taken by an atom to traverse its own space.
Readers of the Buddhist pali sutra and commentaries, who studied them before
modern times, were frequently mystified by reference to the "tying together"
of minute component parts of matter; although nowadays it is easy for a model
reader to recognize an understandable description of molecular
composition."
(source:
Doomsday 1999
- By Charles Berlitz p.
123-124).