- According to some interpretations of
surviving texts, India's future it seems happened way back in its past.
Take the case of the Yantra Sarvasva, said to have been written by the
sage Maharshi Bhardwaj. This consists of as many as 40 sections of which
one, the Vaimanika Prakarana dealing with aeronautics, has eight chapters,
a hundred topics and 500 sootr.
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- In it Bhardwaj describes vimaan, or aerial
craft, as being of three classes: (1) those that travel from place to place;
(2) those that travel from one country to another; and (3) those that travel
between planets. Of special concern among these were the military planes
whose functions were delineated in some very considerable detail and which
read today like something clean out of science fiction. For instance they
had to be:
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- * impregnable, unbreakable, non-combustible
and indestructible
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- * capable of coming to a dead stop in
the twinkling of an eye
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- * invisible to enemies
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- * capable of listening to the conversations
and sounds in hostile planes
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- * technically proficient to see and
record things, persons, incidents and situations going on inside enemy
planes
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- * know at every stage the direction
of movement of other aircraft in the vicinity
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- * capable of rendering the enemy crew
into a state of suspended animation, intellectual torpor or complete loss
of consciousness
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- * capable of destruction
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- * manned by pilots and co-travellers
who could adapt in accordance with the climate in which they moved
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- * temperature regulated inside
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- * constructed of very light and heat
absorbing metals
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- * provided with mechanisms that could
enlarge or reduce images and enhance or diminish sounds
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- Now notwithstanding the fact that such
a contraption would resemble a cross between an American state-of- the-art
Stealth Fighter and a flying saucer, does it mean that air and space travel
was well known to ancient Indians and aeroplanes flourished in India when
the rest of the world was just about learning the rudiments of agriculture?
Not really [the perception of the absence of proof is no proof of the proof's
absence. - Jai Maharaj], for the manufacturing processes described alongside
are delightfully diffuse and deliberately vague. But it does display a
breathtaking expanse of imagination which, had it ever been implemented,
would have propelled us even further than Star Trek. - Mukul Sharma
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- Not for commercial use. Solely to be
fairly used for the educational purposes of research and open discussion.
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- Jai Maharaj Jyotishi, Vedic Astrologer
"A king, though endowed with little prowess, starting on an expedition
at the proper time, in view of the good positions of the planets, achieves
greatness that is eulogised in the scriptures." - Brhat Samhita, 104.60
http://www.flex.com/~jai Om Shanti
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