High Technology in Ancient Sanskrit Literature' by Mr. C. S. R.

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Re: A cross post ( There is a guy in this article named " Mr. Prabhu." I

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In regard to "vimana" and ancient aircraft, I found this interesting:

 

http://www.indiaserver.com/thehindu/2000/12/16/stories/041620

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'Ancient India had spacecraft technology'

 

 

By Our Staff Reporter

 

TIRUPATI, DEC. 15. `India had a treasure trove of hitech warfare

technology that even the `mighty West' does not possess. The

Brahmastra and Vimana used in the pre-Mahabharata period

are nothing but the earlier versions of today's nuclear weapons

and spacecraft.'

 

It is this feeling that one would get after listening to a lecture on

`High Technology in Ancient Sanskrit Literature' by Mr. C. S. R.

Prabhu, senior scientist, NIC, Hyderabad, on Thursday as part of

the three- day Indo-Nepal Sanskrit Conference, currently

underway at the Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha here.

 

Mr. Prabhu, quoting extensively from ancient texts, stressed that

the pre-Mahabharata period was an age of high technology,

which was ignored in the Medieval period due to reasons not

known.

 

He quoted from the texts of a great scholar, Subbaraya Sastry,

who, in a state of yogic trance, is said to have orally dictated the

spacecraft technology in a period somewhere between 1875

and 1919, which was recorded by his disciples. The text, a copy

of which is still in Nepal's Royal Library, contained technical

details on assembling, fabricating and erecting a spacecraft, the

metals, semi-conductors, advanced alloys used and other

minute aeronautical information. Though quite difficult to be

believed on the face of it, the fact that this technology did not exist

anywhere in the world - not even in America and Europe - in the

mentioned period, makes it hard for one to disbelieve.

 

The technical information given in Sastry's texts was as minute,

precise and clear, as if it were a `Make your own spacecraft' or a

`Spacecraft technology in 30 days' except for the Sanskrit

language used, which was very much archaic and obsolete, Mr.

Prabhu said. On a tip on making an alloy, the text said

`Krishnaseesam Chanjanikam Vajrathundam samamsathaha'

from which the real meaning of `Vajrathundam' (used in that

context), could not be found in any contemporary Sanskrit

dictionary. ``After a great amount of interaction with ayurvedic

specialists and Swamijis with intuitive interpretations, it turned

out to be the cactus plant,'' he said.

 

To further strengthen his claim, he said there were wall

paintings in some forts in Rajasthan depicting the use of rockets

in Mughal warfare and even by Tipu Sultan of Mysore. Another

interesting fact he gave was that the spacecraft could become

invisible on its own. The lead alloy (Thamogarbha loha) used in

making the body of the spacecraft would absorb light around it in

a photo chemical reaction that would make it disappear.

 

 

On testing the Krishna seesa metal mentioned in the formula in

the laboratory of Birla Institute of Science, Hyderabad, Mr. Prabhu

found the metal absorbing 78 per cent of laser light, which

means, any other light could be easily absorbed, giving ample

proof that there existed a technology to make things invisible.

Also the use of an alloy of copper, zinc and lead made the

spacecraft's body resist corrosion by 1000 times over that of the

current levels. Using Ararakamra material for the axle and

wheels had made it possible for taking `U' turns and serpentine

movements.

 

An astonishing fact is that the Ararakamra metal was an alloy of

copper, zinc, lead and iron, the combination of which is

impossible, according to modern metallurgy. Technically, the

``Young's modulus'' of this metal is said to be higher than that of

steel, making it stronger. As the spacecraft had to be capable of

resisting high temperature, on re- entering our atmosphere from

the outer space, its body was made with a metal called `Raja

Loha'. Its special feature was that apart from resisting heat, it

converted light from lightnings into energy. To crosscheck all

these details, there were no furnaces available in Hyderabad to

melt metals at a high temperature of 2500 degrees celcius, Mr.

Prabhu lamented.

 

Another hitch came into his research in the form of the `energy'

used. `Though the texts explained that the spacecraft was

propelled by `Sourasakthi', modern solar technology does not

generate so much power to drag a rocket', he pointed out. Later

he found out to his bewilderment that it was a kind of `nuclear

power' that was used in those days. `The solar power, when

coupled with gamma rays produced nuclear energy that had the

power to propel a rocket', Mr. Prabhu observed.

 

He even spoke on `Tripura Vimana' that was used to travel in

space, water and on land, by using the metal `Trinetra loha'. Mr.

Prabhu said he had submitted the model and some more

information on the `super metal' to the Indian Metal Society

Conference and further claimed that the advisor to the

government on scientific affairs Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam too had

asked him to bring the design of the plane.

 

A committee which was appointed by Indian Institute of Science

to investigate into it, declared Sastry's texts as `fraud', but Mr.

Prabhu reasons that the descriptions mentioned in the ancient

texts were perhaps too advanced to believe, making the

committee to hastily come to the conclusion. He wanted a

national level effort to prove that the so called `myths' were in

fact, scientific formulae on advanced technology. He said he had

proposed a project called `Bharadwaja Institute of Vedic Science

and Technology', the objective of which was to derive, decipher

and reproduce advanced methodologies and processes from

Vedic and post-Vedic Sanskrit texts, for which he sought

government's support.