[world-vedic] LEGEND OF THE VIMANAS

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LEGEND OF THE VIMANAS

IN A ANCIENT TEXT CALLED THE MAHABHARATA IT TELLS US OF A FLYING

CRAFT CALLED A VIMANA.STORY'S IN THE TEXT TELL OF TITANIC BATTLES

BETWEEN THE VIMANAS.AND OTHERS TELL OF HOW TO BUILD THE CRAFT.BEING A

FAN OF THE THEORY THAT ANCIENT MAN HAS BEEN VISITED BY ALIENS I QUICKLY

JUMPED AT THIS SUBJECT.MOST OF THE INFORMATION I FOUND EXPLAINED IT

AWAY AS A ANCIENT SCI-FI STORY.BUT WHY WOULD THEY TELL THIS STORY IS

SUCH A CONVINCING WAY AND EVEN DESCRIBE HOW TO BUILD THE CRAFT IN SUCH

DETAIL?ON THIS PAGE I WILL TRY TO BRING TO LIFE THE LEGEND OF THE

VIMANAS

BELOW YOU WILL FIND VARIOUS INFORMATION THAT I HAVE FOUND

ON VIMANAS

In the Sanskrit Samarangana Sutradhara, it is written

"Strong and durable must the body of the Vimana be made, like a great

flying bird of light material. Inside one must put the mercury engine

with its iron heating apparatus underneath. By means of the power

latent in the mercury which sets the driving whirlwind in motion, a man

sitting inside may travel a great distance in the sky. The movements of

the Vimana are such that it can vertically ascend, vertically descend,

move slanting forwards and backwards. With the help of the machines

human beings can fly in the air and heavenly beings can come down to

earth."

The Hakatha (Laws of the Babylonians) states quite unambiguously: "The

privilege of operating a flying machine is great. The knowledge of

flight is among the most ancient of our inheritances. A gift from

'those from upon high'. We received it from them as a means of saving

many lives."

More fantastic still is the information given in the ancient Chaldean

work, The Sifrala, which contains over one hundred pages of technical

details on building a flying machine. It contains words which translate

as graphite rod, copper coils, crystal indicator, vibrating spheres,

stable angles, etc.

Ancient Indian Aircraft Technology From The Anti-Gravity Handbook

by D. Hatcher Childress

Many researchers into the UFO enigma tend to overlook a very important

fact. While it assumed that most flying saucers are of alien, or

perhaps Governmental Military origin, another possible origin of UFOs

is ancient India and Atlantis. What we know about ancient Indian flying

vehicles comes from ancient Indian sources; written texts that have

come down to us through the centuries. There is no doubt that most of

these texts are authentic; many are the well known ancient Indian Epics

themselves, and there are literally hundreds of them. Most of them have

not even been translated into English yet from the old sanskrit. The Indian

Emperor Ashoka started a "Secret Society of the Nine Unknown

Men": great Indian scientists who were supposed to catalogue the many

sciences. Ashoka kept their work secret because he was afraid that the

advanced science catalogued by these men, culled from ancient Indian

sources, would be used for the evil purpose of war, which Ashoka was

strongly against, having been converted to Buddhism after defeating a

rival army in a bloody battle. The "Nine Unknown Men" wrote a total of

nine books, presumably one each. Book number was "The Secrets of

Gravitation!" This book, known to historians, but not actually seen by

them dealt chiefly with "gravity control." It is presumably still

around somewhere, kept in a secret library in India, Tibet or elsewhere

(perhaps even in North America somewhere). One can certainly understand

Ashoka's reasoning for wanting to keep such knowledge a secret,

assuming it exists. Ashoka was also aware of devastating wars using such advanced vehicles

and other "futuristic weapons" that had destroyed the ancient Indian

"Rama Empire" several thousand years before. Only a few years ago, the

Chinese discovered some sanskrit documents in Lhasa, Tibet and sent

them to the University of Chandrigarh to be translated. Dr. Ruth Reyna

of the University said recently that the documents contain directions

for building interstellar spaceships! Their method of propulsion, she

said, was "anti- gravitational" and was based upon a system analogous

to that of "laghima," the unknown power of the ego existing in man's

physiological makeup, "a centrifugal force strong enough to counteract

all gravitational pull." According to Hindu Yogis, it is this "laghima"

which enables a person to levitate. Dr. Reyna said that on board these machines,

which were called "Astras"

by the text, the ancient Indians could have sent a detachment of men

onto any planet, according to the document, which is thought to be

thousands of years old. The manuscripts were also said to reveal the

secret of "anti matter"; "the cap of invisibility" and "garima"; "how

to become as heavy as a mountain of lead." Naturally, Indian scientists

did not take the texts very seriously, but then became more positive

about the value of them when the Chinese announced that they were

including certain parts of the data for study in their space program!

This was one of the first instances of a government admitting to be

researching anti-gravity. The manuscripts did not say definitely that interplanetary travel was

ever made but did mention, of all things, a planned trip to the Moon,

though it is not clear whether this trip was actually carried out.

However, one of the great Indian epics,the Ramayana, does have a highly

detailed story in it of a trip to the moon in a Vimana (or "Astra"),

and in fact details a battle on the moon with an "Asvin" (or

Atlantean") airship. This is but a small bit of recent evidence of

anti-gravity and aerospace technology used by Indians. To really understand the

technology, we must go much further back in

time. The so-called "Rama Empire" of Northern India and Pakistan

developed at least fifteen thousand years ago on the Indian

subcontinent and was a nation of many large, sophisticated cities, many

of which are still to be found in the deserts of Pakistan, northern,

and western India. Rama existed, apparently, parallel to the Atlantean

civilization in the mid- Atlantic Ocean, and was ruled by "enlightened

Priest-Kings" who governed the cities, The seven greatest capital cities of Rama

were known in classical Hindu

texts as "The Seven Rishi Cities." According to ancient Indian texts,

the people had flying machines which were called "Vimanas." The ancient

Indian epic describes a Vimana as a double deck, circular aircraft with

portholes and a dome, much as we would imagine a flying saucer. It flew

with the "speed of the wind" and gave forth a"melodious sound." There

were at least four different types of Vimanas; some saucer shaped,

others like long cylinders ("cigar shaped airships"). The ancient

Indian texts on Vimanas are so numerous, it would take volumes to

relate what they had to say. The ancient Indians, who manufactured

these ships themselves, wrote entire flight manuals on the control of

the various types of Vimanas, many of which are still in existence, and

some have even been translated into English. The Samara Sutradhara is a

scientific treatise dealing with every

possible angle of air travel in a Vimana. There are 230 stanzas dealing

with the construction, take-off, cruising for thousand of miles, normal

and forced landings, and even possible collisions with birds. In 1875,

the Vaimanika Sastra, a fourth century B.C. text written by Bharadvajy

the Wise, using even older texts as his source, was re discovered in a

temple in India. It dealt with the operation of Vimanas and included

information on the steering, precautions for long flights, protection

of the airships from storms and lightning and how to switch the drive

to "solar energy" from a free energy source which sounds like

"anti-gravity." The Vaimanika Sastra (or Vymaanika-Shaastra) has eight

chapters with diagrams, describing three types of aircraft, including

apparatuses that could neither catch on fire nor break. It also

mentions 31 essential parts of these vehicles and 16 materials from

which they are constructed, which absorb light and heat; for which

reason they were considered suitable for the construction of Vimanas. This

document has been translated into English and is available by

writing the publisher: VYMAANIDASHAASTRA AERONAUTICS by Maharishi

Bharadwaaja, translated into English and edited, printed and published

by Mr. G. R.Josyer, Mysore, India, 1979 (sorry, no street address). Mr.

Josyer is the director of the International Academy of Sanskrit

Investigation, located in Mysore. There seems to be no doubt that

Vimanas were powered by some sort of "anti-gravity." Vimanas took off

vertically, and were capable of hovering in the sky, like a modern

helicopter or dirigible. Bharadvajy 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 a Vimana Griha, a kind

of hanger, and were sometimes said to be propelled by a yellowish-white

liquid, and sometimes by some sort of mercury compound, though writers

seem confused in this matter. It is most likely that the later writers

on Vimanas, wrote as observers and from earlier texts, and were

understandably confused on the principle of their propulsion. The

"yellowish- white liquid" sounds suspiciously like gasoline, and

perhaps Vimanas had a number of different propulsion sources, including

combustion engines and even "pulse-jet" engines. It is interesting to

note, that the Nazis developed the first practical pulse-jet engines

for their V-8 rocket "buzz bombs." Hitler and the Nazi staff were

exceptionally interested in ancient India and Tibet and sent

expeditions to both these places yearly, starting in the 30's, in order

to gather esoteric evidence that they did so, and perhaps it was from

these people that the Nazis gained some of their scientific

information! According to the Dronaparva, part of the Mahabarata, and the Ramayana,

one Vimana described was shaped like a sphere and born along at great

speed on a mighty wind generated by mercury. It moved like a UFO, going

up, down, backwards and forwards as the pilot desired. In another

Indian source, the Samar, Vimanas were "iron machines, well-knit and

smooth, with a charge of mercury that shot out of the back in the form

of a roaring flame." Another work called the Samaranganasutradhara

describes how the vehicles were constructed. It is possible that

mercury did have something to do with the propulsion, or more possibly,

with the guidance system. Curiously, Soviet scientists have discovered

what they call "ageold instruments used in navigating cosmic vehicles"

in caves in Turkestan and the Gobi Desert. The "devices" are

hemispherical objects of glass or porcelain, ending in a cone with a

drop of mercury inside. It is evident that ancient Indians flew around in these vehicles, all

over Asia, to Atlantis presumably; and even, apparently, to South

America.Writing found at Mohenjodaro in Pakistan (presumed to be one of

the "Seven Rishi Cities of the Rama Empire") and still undeciphered,

has also been found in one other place in the world: Easter Island!

Writing on Easter Island, called Rongo-Rongo writing, is also

undeciphered, and is uncannily similar to the Mohenjodaro script. Was

Easter Island an air base for the Rama Empire's Vimana route? (At the

Mohenjo- Daro Vimana-drome, as the passenger walks down the concourse,

he hears the sweet, melodic sound of the announcer over the

loudspeaker,"Rama Airways flight number seven for Bali, Easter Island,

Nazca, and Atlantis is now ready for boarding. Passengers please

proceed to gate number..") in Tibet, no small distance, and speaks of

the "fiery chariot" thus: "Bhima flew along in his car, resplendent as

the sun and loud as thunder... The flying chariot shone like a flame in

the night sky of summer ... it swept by like a comet... It was as if

two suns were shining. Then the chariot rose up and all the heaven

brightened."

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