Artistic Representation of RUKMAVimana
Introduction
In the ancient Vedas, there are many descriptions of flying machines called Vimana. The Indian epic, the Mahabharata is a long and complex work. It mentions specifics to mature Indian aerospace technologies, however references to flying machines are common in most of the Indian ancient texts.
The western school of anthropology considers human civilization emerged out of Africa. Genetic studies show that primates diverged from other mammals about 85 million years ago, in the Late Cretaceous period, and the earliest fossils appear in the Paleocene, around 55 million years ago. Abrahamic religions follow Exclusivism” or “Particularism” with a view that one religion is uniquely and supremely true and all other religions are false, followed by an authoritative advocation of Genesis creation narrative and reject vehemently the scientific theory of evolution. On the other hand, Hinduism advocates evolution the ten avatars of Vishnu is manifestation and attestation of this line of thought.
Hinduism’s understanding of time is as grandiose as time itself. While Abrahamic religions, base their cosmologies on familiar units such as few hundreds or thousands of years, the Hindu concept of time embraces billions and trillions of years. The Puranas describe time units from the infinitesimal truti, lasting 1/1,000,0000 of a second to a mahamantavara of 311 trillion years. Hindu sages describe time as cyclic, an endless procession of creation, preservation and dissolution. Scientists such as Carl Sagan have expressed amazement at the accuracy of space and time descriptions given by the ancient rishis and saints, who fathomed the secrets of the universe through their mystically awakened senses.
The study of human evolution involves many scientific disciplines, including physical anthropology, primatology, archaeology, paleontology, evolutionary psychology, embryology and the most modern theories, genetics. It is a "modern superstition" to assume that the move towards knowledge is something linear. Our knowledge on ancient science and technology is rather inadequate. But the Vedas definitive structure and explanation of such technologies several eons before the egression of modern thought is revolutionary and needs rigorous investigation.
Let us examine some of the antecedents of this fascinating branch of science:
The Yajur Veda, 10:19
"O royal skilled engineer, construct sea-boats, propelled on water by our experts, and airplanes, moving and flying upward, after the clouds that reside in the mid-region, that fly as the boats move on the sea, that fly high over and below the watery clouds. Be thou, thereby, prosperous in this world created by the Omnipresent God, and flier in both air and lightning."
The Yajur Veda, 6:21
"Through astronomy, geography, and geology, go thou to all the different countries of the world under the sun. Mayest thou attain through good preaching to statesmanship and artisanship, through medical science obtain knowledge of all medicinal plants, through hydrostatics learn the different uses of water, through electricity understand the working of ever lustrous lightening. Carry out my instructions willingly."
The Atharva Veda, 20:41.1-3
"The atomic energy fissions the ninety-nine elements, covering its path by the bombardments of neutrons without let or hindrance. Desirous of stalking the head, ie. The chief part of the swift power, hidden in the mass of molecular adjustments of the elements, this atomic energy approaches it in the very act of fissioning it by the above-noted bombardment. Herein, verily the scientists know the similar hidden striking force of the rays of the sun working in the orbit of the moon." (Source: Searching for Vedic India - By Devamitra Swami p. 155 - 157)
The Rig Veda, the oldest known documents in history describes some of these means of transport:
Jalayan - is a vehicle designed to move both in air and in water ... (Rig Veda 6.58.3)
Kaara - is a vehicle designed to move both on land and in the water ... (Rig Veda 9.14.1)
Tritala - is a vehicle designed to move in the three elements ... (Rig Veda 3.14.1)
Trichakra Ratha - is a vehicle with three engines designed to move in the air ... (Rig Veda 4.36.1)
Vaayu Ratha - is a vehicle driven by an air motor ... (Rig Veda 5.41.6)
Vidyut Ratha - a vehicle driven by a motor potentissimoè (Rig Veda 3.14.1).
Kathasaritsagara refers to highly talented woodworkers called Rajyadhara and Pranadhara. The former was so skilled in mechanical contrivances that he could make ocean crossing chariots. And the latter manufactured a flying chariot to carry a thousand passengers in the air. These chariots were stated to be as fast as thought itself. (Source: India Through The Ages: History, Art Culture and Religion - By G. Kuppuram p. 532-533)
The Arthasastra of Kautilya (3zo century BC) mentions among the businessmen and technocrats, the Saubhikas or pilots conducting vehicles in the sky. Saubha was the name of the city of King Harishchandra and the root of "Saubika" means a person able to fly or who knows how to fly an aircraft. The essay uses Kautilya another significant word 'Akasa Yodhinah " whose translation is: People trained for air combat warfare. The existence of aerial chariots, in any form, was well known that found a place among the royal edicts of the Emperor Asoka who was executed during his reign from 256 BC.
One excellent example is the 3,000 year old Vymanika Shastra, meaning “The Science of Aeronautics”. It has been translated by G.R. Josyer, director of the International Academy of Sanskrit research in Mysore, India. The translation, “Aeronautics, a Manuscript From the Prehistoric Past”, was published in book form by Coronation press, Mysore, in 1973. The Vaimanika Shastra, refers to other 97 authoritative works of which at least 20 of these books, explaining the mechanisms of flying machines, unfortunately these texts are now untraceable. The Yuktikalpataru of Bhoja, includes a note on the flying machines in verses 48-50. Samarangana sootradhara of King Bhojaraja unveils the use of mercury in engines for aviation use very distinctly. Briefly explaining the operation of this type of engine, western researchers, quoting this treatise, mention this as a heating device placed underneath to cause ignition, triggering the potent energy in mercury to drive the whirlwind in motion. This produces highly intense impulse catapulting the flying machine into air instantaneously. This confirmed by a comment the work dated 1870 AD, which belongs to the University of Sanskrit in Calcutta. We are therefore in possession of manuscript material that demonstrates the existence of Vimana or airplanes in ancient India which followed the western route, towards the Arabian Sea, Africa, Atlantic Ocean, Latin America, etc., And these were only the shortest routes. It is likely that the ships had followed the same route by sea, but most of the cargo ships, however, were to follow longer route through the Pacific Ocean, Indonesia, Polynesia, Latin America because of winds and equatorial currents which made navigation easier.
And if the ancient Indians could boast of a form of travel across the sky, this means that the Nazca lines in Peru acquire an added significance. So not only the scriptural references of aircraft and their shipping routes, but also the places would be landing in the tangled outlines of the figures of the Pampas of Nazca. Maria Reiche, a German scientist, studied with dedication these seriously, preserved them from destruction and published them to the world. It is likely that the huge figures that are visible from the air would help the old pilots (Saubhikas).
There are many clues in the texts in Sanskrit on Vimana carrying kings and dignitaries to pataldesa. The Ramayana describes the flight of Ravana by Varunalaya (Borneo) in Rasatala (Peru). Proffessor D K Kanjilal describes the history of the Matsya Purana (Chapter 129) and Vimana in Ancient India in the following words: "Behind the veil of legend and scientific truth comes out that three airports were built and used by the demons. One in a stationary orbit, another moving in the sky and one was permanently on the earth's surface. These were similar to the modern space stations within a particular time by a fixed latitude and longitude. The arrow of Siva (mentioned in the text), refers to a blazing missile fired from an orbiting satellite that goes to hit a spaceship that fell into the Indian Ocean. The remains of an ancient prosperous civilization destroyed in battles only flicker through these legends. " These notes confirm the use of some kind of flying vehicle known as Vimana relating to a mechanical invention. These facts require more than a passing thought.
Scientific composition of Vimanas
In the Yantra Sarvasva, sage Maharshi Bhardwaj describes vimana, or aerial aircrafts, as being of three classes:
- Those that travel from place to place;
- Those that travel from one country to another;
- Those that travel between planets.
According to Rahasyagnyodhikaaree - Sutra 2, "The pilot is one who knows the secrets" There were 32 secrets the pilot needed to learn from competent preceptors and only such a person was fit to be entrusted with an aeroplane, and no others:
There are 32 secrets of the working of the Vimaana. He must know the structure of the aeroplane, know the means of its take off and ascent to the sky, know how to drive it and how to halt it when necessary, how to maneuver it and make it perform spectacular feats in the sky without crashing. Those secrets are given in "Rahashya Lahari" and other works by Lalla and other masters and are described as thus:
"The pilot should have had training in maantrica and taantrica, kritaka and antaraalaka, goodha or hidden, drishya and adrishya or seen and unseen, paroksha and aparoksha, contraction and expansion, changing shape, look frightening, look pleasing, become luminous or enveloped in darkness, deluge or pralaya, vimukha, taara, stun by thunderstorm din, jump, move zig-zag like serpent, chaapala, face all sides, hear distant sounds, take pictures, know enemy maneuver, know direction of enemy approach, stabdhaka or paralyse, and karshana or exercise magnetic pull.
Some of these secrets are:
1. Goodha: As explained in 'Vaayutatva-Prakarana', by harnessing the powers, Yaasaa, Viyaasaa, Prayaasaa in the 8th atmospheric layer covering the earth, to attract the dark content of the solar ray, and use it to hide the Vimana from the enemy.
2. Drishya: By collision of the electric power and wind power in the atmosphere, a glow is created, whose reflection is to be caught in the Vishwa-Kriya-drapana or mirror at the front of the Vimana, and by its manipulation produce a Maaya-Vimana or camouflaged Vimana.
3. Vimukha: As mentioned in "Rig-hridaya", by projecting the force of Kubera, Vimukha and Vyshawaanara poison powder through the third tube of the roudree mirror and turning the switch of the air mechanism, produce wholesale insensibility and coma.
4. Roopaakarshana: By means of the photographic yantra in the Vimana to obtain a television view of things inside an enemy's plane.
5. Stabdhak: By projecting apasmaara poison fume smoke through the tube on the north side on the Vimana, and discharging it with stambhana yantra, people in enemy planes will be made unconscious.
6. Chaapla: On sighting an enemy plane, by turning the switch in the force center in the middle section of the Vimana, a 4087 revolutions an hour atmospheric wave speed will be generated, and shake up the enemy plane.
7. Parashabda Graahaka: As explained in the "Sowdaaminee Kalaa: or science of electronics, by means of the sound capturing yantra in the Vimana, to hear the talks and sound in enemy planes flying in the sky.
According to Shownaka, the regions of the sky are 5, named, Rekhaapathaha, Mandala, Kakshaya, Shakti and Kendra. In these 5 atmospheric regions, there are 5,19,800 air ways traversed by Vimanas of the Seven Lokas or worlds, known as Bhooloka, Bhuvarloka, Suvarloka, Maholoka, Janoloka, Tapoloka and Satyaloka. Dhundinaatha and "Valalmeeki Ganita" state that Rekha has 7,03,00,800 air routes. Mandala has 20,08,00200 air routes, Kakshya has 2,09,00,300 air routes, Shakti has 10,01,300 air routes, and Kendra has 30,08,200 air routes.
It discusses what kind of food to eat, clothing to wear, metals for vimanas, purification of metals, deals with mirrors and lenses which are required to be installed in the vimaanas, mechanical contrivances or yantras and protecting and different types of vimaanas.
Aeronautical Society of India referring to the Vymanika Shashtra states that a glass-like material based on technology found in an ancient Sanskrit text that could ultimately be used in a stealth bomber (the material cannot be detected by radar) has been developed by a research scholar of Benaras Hindu University. Prof M A Lakshmithathachar, Director of the Academy of Sanskrit Research in Melkote, near Mandya.
The tests conducted with the material showed radars could not detect it.
“The unique material cannot be traced by radar and so a plane coated with it cannot be detected using radar,” he said.
This was first reported by the Deccan Herald long back. What happened to this research is anybody’s guess. So this proves that at least some of the Indian scientists did seriously undertake research on Ancient Indian Aerospace Technology.
Types of Vimanas
Maharshi Bharadwaaja: SHAKUNA VIMANA
Maharshi Bharadwaaja: SUNDARA VIMANA
Maharshi Bharadwaaja: RUKMA VIMANA
Maharshi Bharadwaaja: TRIPURA VIMANA
Conclusion
Ancient Indian civilization was superior and advanced with possible contacts with extraterrestrial visitors and the flying devices called 'Vimanas'. Ancient Indian texts may underline their possible connections with today's aerospace technology.
Erich von Däniken a Swiss author discusses the Ramayana and the vimanas in Chapter 6 of his bestseller book "Chariots of the Gods" suggesting that they were "space vehicles". To support his hypothesis, he offers a quotation which he says is from an 1889 translation of the Mahabharata by C. Roy: "Bhima flew with his Vimana on an enormous ray which was as brilliant as the sun and made a noise like the thunder of a storm.
Dismissing Vimanas as a creation of mythology would be a fallacy, we need to study and investigate the veracity of the ancient texts which eventually could prove to be shocking. In the modern context UFO's have become a consternation between the believable and the absurd. It is also purported that advanced nations had access to secret alien technology which have been used to develop sophisticated weapons, the Roswell incident (1947) and the Crash at Corona (1992) are illustrious examples of this theory, although there is no clear evidence that a UFO crashed at Roswell or Corona, believers firmly believe that one did, and that the truth has been concealed as a result of a government conspiracy. It is noteworthy to mention here that the Vedic literatures of ancient India draws overwhelming attention to gods and heroes fighting in the skies using piloted vehicles with weapons of mass destruction.
Main Source>> VYMAANIKA-SHAASTRA by Maharshi Bharadwaaja (Propounded by Venerable SUBBARAYA SHASTRY) Printed at CORONATION PRESS, MYSORE (1973)
