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 e-il 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 six 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. Imagine 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, takeoff, 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 principle 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. 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?
