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. if the
Nazis had such weapons at their disposal during World War Ii.
Ashoka was also aware 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 "antima";
"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
sub-continent 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
rediscovered 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 lightening 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 princible of their propulsion.
The "yellowishwhite 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
"age-old 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.
n the Mahavira of Bhavabhuti, a Jain text of the eighth century
culled from older texts and traditions, we read: "An aerial
chariot, the Pushpaka, conveys many people to the capital of
Ayodhya.
The sky is full of stupendous flying-machines, dark as night, but
picked out by lights with a yellowish glare-"
The Vedas, ancient Hindu poems, thought to be the oldest of all the
Indian texts, describe Vimanas of various shapes and sizes: the
"ahnihotra-vimana" with two engines, the "elephant-vimana" with
more engines, and other types named after the kingfisher, ibis and
other animals.
Unfortunately, Vimanas, like most scientific discoveries, were
ultimately used for war.
Atlanteans used their flying machines, 'Vailixi'. a similar type of
aircraft, to literally try and subjugate the world, it would seem,
if Indian texts are to be believed.
The Atlanteans, known as "Asvins" in the Indian writings, were
apparently even more advanced technologically than the Indians, and
certainly of a more war-like temperament. Although no ancient texts
on Atlantean Vailixi are known to exist, some information has come
down through esoteric, "occult" sources, which describe their
flying machines.
Similar, if not identical to Vimanas, Vailixi were generally "cigar
shaped" and had the capability of maneuvering underwater as well as
in the atmosphere or even outer space.
Other vehicles, like Vimanas, were saucer shaped, and could
apparently also be submerged.
According to Eklal Kueshana, author of "The Ultimate Frontier," in
an article he wrote in
1966, Vailixi were first developed in Atlantis 20,000 years ago,
and the most common ones are "saucer shaped of generally
trapezoidal cross-section with three hemispherical engine pods on
the underside." "They use a mechanical antigravity device driven by
engines developing approximately 80,000 horse power."
The Ramayana, Mahabarata and other texts speak of the hideous war
that took place, some ten or twelve thousand years ago between
Atlantis and Rama using weapons of destruction that could not be
imagined by readers until the second half of this century.
The ancient Mahabharata, one of the sources on Vimanas, goes on to
tell the awesome destructiveness of the war: "...(the weapon was) a
single projectile charged with all the power of the Universe. An
incandescent column of smoke and flame As bright as the thousand
suns rose in all its splendor... An iron thunderbolt, A gigantic
messenger of death, Which reduced to ashes The entire race of the
Vrishnis And the Andhakas.
. . . the corpses were so burned As to be unrecognizable.
The hair and nails fell out; Pottery broke without apparent cause,
And the birds turned white.
... After a few hours All foodstuffs were infected...
... to escape from this fire The soldiers threw themselves in
streams To wash themselves and their equipment..."
It would seem that the Mahabharata is describing an atomic war!
References like this one are not isolated; but battles, using a
fantastic array of weapons and aerial vehicles are common in all
the epic Indian books.
One even describes a Vimana-Vailix battle on the Moon! The above
section very accurately describes what an atomic explosion would
look like and the effects of the radioactivity on the population.
Jumping into water is the only respite.
When the Rishi City of Mohenjodaro was excavated by archeologists
in the last century, they found skeletons just lying in the
streets, some of them holding hands, as if some great doom had
suddenly overtaken them.
These skeletons are among the most radioactive ever found, on a par
with those found at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Ancient cities whose brick and stone walls have literaly been
vitrified, that is-fused together, can be found in India, Ireland,
Scotland, France, Turkey and other places. There is no logical
explanation for the vitrification of stone forts and cities, except
from an atomic blast.
It is interesting to note that when Alexander the Great invaded
India more than two thousand years ago, his historians chronicled
that at one point they were attacked by "flying, fiery shields"
that dove at his army and frightened the cavalry..
