Theos-Talk Archives (December 2003 Message tt00356)

All,
Here is a content from the listed sender, a memebr of another Group I 
subscribe too about the inquiry on Vimana Texts. John

Message: 7
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 14:28:45 EST
From: antigray@cs.com
Subject: Could the Ancients Fly?

Hi Group,
I answered the question about what the ancient flying carpets were in my 
book. You won't find that information anywhere else. It was part of the alien 
agenda.
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Art

Could the Ancients Fly?
by 
David Childress

Throughout history there have been many common myths and legends of flying 
machines or devices, the familiar flying carpets of ancient Arabia; Biblical 
figures such as Ezekiel and Solomon flying from place to place and the 
magical 
chariots, or Vimanas, of ancient India and China.

There are many Chinese legends of flight, including a legendary flying 
chariot belonging to an ancient Chinese prince and the more recent Wan 
Hoo--of the 
15th century A.D. or so. He allegedly built a sturdy wooden framework around 
a 
comfortable chair and attached 47 skyrockets to the back of the seat. Atop it 
he fastened two large kites. After strapping himself to the chair, he raised 
his hand and servants carrying blazing torches advanced toward the vehicle 
and 
ignited the skyrockets. A moment later there was a mighty blast, followed by 
an impressive cloud of black smoke. Wan Hoo vanished, leaving nothing behind 
but a legend.

Among the more famous ancient texts that mention aerial cars (Vimanas) are 
the Ramayana and Mahabharata. Other lesser known texts include the 
Samarangana 
Sutra-dhara, the Yuktikalpataru of Bhoja ( 12th century A.D.) the Mayamatam 
(attributed to the architect Maya celebrated in the Mahabharata), the Rig 
Veda, 
the Yajurveda and the Ataharvaveda.

According to the Indian historian Ramachandra Dikshitar who wrote the still 
classic text on ancient Indian warfare, other texts which mention aerial 
vehicles and travels are the Satapathya Brahmanas; the Rig Veda Samhita; the 
Harivamsa; the Makandeya Purana; the Visnu Purana; the Vikramaurvasiya; the 
Uttararamacarita; the Harsacarita; the Tamil text Jivakocintamani; and the 
Samaranganasutradhara.

In the Manusa, the most elaborate details for building aerial machines are 
set down. The Samarangana Sutradhara says that they were made of light 
material, 
with a strong, well-shaped body. Iron, copper, mercury and lead were used in 
their construction. They could fly to great distances and were propelled 
through air by motors. The Samarangana Sutradhara text devotes 230 stanzas to 
the 
building of these machines, and their uses in peace and war:

Strong and durable must the body be made, like a great flying bird, of light 
material. Inside it one must place the Mercury-engine with its iron heating 
apparatus beneath. By means of the power latent in the mercury which sets the 
driving whirlwind in motion, a man sitting inside may travel a great distance 
in 
the sky in a most marvelous manner.

Similarly by using the prescribed processes one can build a vimana as large 
as the temple of the God-in-motion. Four strong mercury containers must be 
built into the interior structure. When these have been heated by controlled 
fire 
from iron containers, the vimana develops thunder-power through the mercury. 
And at once it becomes a pearl in the sky.

Moreover, if this iron engine with properly welded joints be filled with 
mercury, and the fire be conducted to the upper part it develops power with 
the 
roar of a lion.

The Ramayana describes a vimana as a double-deck, circular (cylindrical) 
aircraft with portholes and a dome. It flew with the speed of the wind and 
gave 
forth a melodious sound (a humming noise?). Ancient Indian texts on Vimanas 
are 
so numerous it would take several books to relate what they have to say. The 
ancient Indians themselves wrote entire flight manuals on the control of 
various types of Vimanas, of which there were basically four: the Shakuna 
Vimana, 
the Sundara Vimana, the Rukma Vimana and the Tripura Vimana.

The Vaimanika Sastra is perhaps the most important ancient text on Vimanas 
known to exist. It was first reported to have been found in 1918 in the 
Baroda 
Royal Sanskrit Library. Baroda is located north of Bombay and south of 
Ahmedabad in Gujerat. No earlier copies have been reported, however, Swami 
Dayananda 
Saraswati in his comprehensive treatise on the Rig Veda dated 1875 references 
the Vaimanaik Sastra in his commentary, as well as other manuscripts on 
Vimanas.

The Vaimanika Sastra refers to 97 past works and authorities, of which at 
least 20 works deal with the mechanism of aerial Flying Machines, but none of 
these works are now traceable. Says Sanskrit literature professor Dileep 
Kumar 
Kanjilal, Ph.D. of the West Bengal Senior Educational Service, Since the 
transcripts of the work date from early 20th century the authenticity of the 
Vail 
Sastra may be pertinently questioned. On careful analysis it has been found 
that 
the work retained some antique features pertaining to an old Sastra. Like the 
Sutras of Panini the rules have been laid down in an aphoristic style with 
the 
explanation couched in Vrittis and Karikas. The Sutra style is to be found in 
the earliest works on grammar, Smrti and Philosophy, while the use of Karikas 
is as old as Batsyayana, Kautilya and others of the early Christian era. 
Bharadwaja as the author of a Srauta Satra and Smrti work is well-known and a 
sage 
Bharadwaja as the seer of the 6th Mandala of the Rig Veda is also well-known. 
Panini also referred to him in VII. II.63. Kautilya had also shown that 
Bharadwaja was an ancient author on politics. The Mbh. (Mahabharata, 
Santiparva Ch. 
58.3) refers to Bharadwaja as an author on politics. Authors on politics have 
very often been found to have written on the technical sciences also. The 
genuineness, therefore, of any treatise on technical sciences composed by 
Bharadwaja cannot be ignored.

Says the Vaimanika Sastra about itself: In this book are described in 8 
pregnant and captivating chapters, the arts of manufacturing various types of 
Aeroplanes of smooth and comfortable travel in the sky, as a unifying force 
for the 
Universe, contributive to the well-being of mankind.

That which can go by its own force, like a bird, on earth, or water, or air, 
is called Vimana.'

That which can travel in the sky, from place to place, land to land, or globe 
to globe, is called Vimana by scientists in Aeronautics. The ancient 
manuscript claims to give:


The secret of constructing aeroplanes, which will not break, which cannot be 
cut, will not catch fire, and cannot be destroyed.

The secret of making planes motionless.

The secret of making planes invisible.

The secret of hearing conversations and other sounds in enemy planes.

The secret of receiving photographs of the interior of enemy planes.

The secret of ascertaining the direction of enemy planes approach.

The secret of making persons in enemy planes lose consciousness. 

The secret of destroying enemy planes. The India of 15,000 years ago is 
sometimes known as the Rama Empire, a land that was contemporary with 
Atlantis. A 
huge wealth of texts still extant in India testify to the extremely advanced 
civilization that is said by these texts to go back over 26,000 years. 
Terrible 
wars and subsequent earth changes destroyed these civilizations, leaving only 
isolated pockets of civilization.

The devastating wars of the Ramayana and particularly of the Mahabharata are 
said to have been the culmination of the terrible wars of the last Kali Yuga. 
The dating process is difficult, in that there is no exact way to date the 
yugas because there are cycles within cycles and yugas within yugas. A 
greater 
yuga cycle is said to last 6000 years while a smaller yuga cycle is only 360 
years in the theory expounded by Dr. Kunwarlal Jain Vyas. His papers said 
that 
Rama belongs to the twenty-fourth small yuga cycle and that there is an 
interval 
of 71 cycles between Manu and Mahabharata period, which comes out to be 
26,000 years.

The legacy of Atlantis, the ancient Rama Empire and Vimanas reaches us up to 
today. The mysterious airship wave of the 1890s may well have been a sighting 
of ancient craft, still in working order, meandering slowly over the 
pre-flight world of late 19th century America.

In the late years of the last century, a number of unusual airship sightings 
were made which may well have been of Vimana craft. In 1873 at Bonham, Texas, 
workers in a cotton field suddenly saw a shiny, silver object that came 
streaking down from the sky at them. Terrified, they ran away, while the 
great 
silvery serpent, as some people described it, swung around and dived at them 
again. 
A team of horses ran away, the driver was thrown beneath the wheels of the 
wagon and killed. A few hours later that same day in Fort Riley, Kansas, a 
similar airship swooped down out of the skies at a cavalry parade and 
terrorized 
the horses to such an extent that the cavalry drill ended in a tumult.

The great Airship Flap of 1897 actually started in November, 1896 in San 
Francisco, California when hundreds of residents saw a large, elongated, dark 
object that used brilliant searchlights and moved against the wind, traveling 
northwest across Oakland. A few hours later reports came from other northern 
California cities; Santa Rosa, Chico, Sacramento and Red Bluff, all 
describing what 
appears to be the same airship, a cigar-shaped craft. It is quite possible 
that this craft was heading for Mount Shasta in northern California.

The airship moved very slowly and majestically, flying low at times, and at 
night, shining its powerful searchlight on the ground. It is worth noting 
here, 
as Jacques Vallee did in his book Dimensions, that the airship could do 
exactly as it cared to, because unlike today, it ran no risk of being 
pursued. 
There were no jet squadrons to be scrambled after the aerial intruder, nor 
anti-aircraft guns or surface to air missiles to shoot down this trespassing 
craft in 
the sky.

A question sometimes asked by Vimanas researchers is whether the ancient 
Indians and Atlanteans ever went to our moon or to Mars? If mankind had such 
craft 
in ancient times, would they have created bases on the moon and Mars just as 
we are planning to do today? If they had set up permanent bases, would they 
still be occupying them today?



This article has been excerpted for Atlantis Rising by the author from his 
book Vimana Aircraft of Ancient India &Atlantis. Available from Adventures 
Unlimited Press.



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