Subject: Ancient Indian Vimana Anti-Grav Aircraft
Date: 6 Jan 1995 16:04:05 -0500

  Ancient Indian Aircraft Technology by D. Hatcher Childress 
  From The Anti-Gravity Handbook 
  
  Many researchers into the UFO enigma tend to overlook a very 
  important fact.While it assumed that most flying saucers are of 
  alien, or perhaps Governmental Military origin, another possible 
  origin of UFOs is ancient India and Atlantis. 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.
  
  Ashoka was also aware of 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 lightning 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 "yellowish-white 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? (At the Mohenjo-Daro Vimana-drome, as the 
  passenger walks down the concourse, he hears the sweet, melodic 
  sound of the announcer over the loudspeaker,"Rama Airways flight 
  number seven for Bali, Easter Island, Nazca, and Atlantis is now 
  ready for boarding. Passengers please proceed to gate number..") in 
  Tibet, no small distance, and speaks of the "fiery chariot" thus: 
  "Bhima flew along in his car, resplendent as the sun and loud as 
  thunder... The flying chariot shone like a flame in the night sky 
  of summer ... it swept by like a comet... It was as if two suns 
  were shining. Then the chariot rose up and all the heaven 
  brightened." 
  
  In 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 manoeuvering 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 splendour... 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 archaeologists 
  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 stonewalls have literally 
  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.
  
  Futhermore, at Mohenjo-Daro, a well planned city laid on a grid, 
  with a plumbing system superior to those used in Pakistan and India 
  today, the streets were littered with "black lumps of glass." These 
  globs of glass were discovered to be clay pots that had melted 
  under intense heat! With the cataclysmic sinking of Atlantis and 
  the wiping out of Rama with atomic weapons, the world collapsed 
  into a "stone age" of sorts, and modern history picks up a few 
  thousand years later  Yet, it would seem that not all the Vimanas 
  and Vailixi of Rama and Atlantis were gone. Built to last for 
  thousands of years, many of them would still be in use, as 
  evidenced by Ashoka's "Nine Unknown Men" and the Lhasa manuscript.
  
  That secret societies or "Brotherhoods" of 
  exceptional,"enlightened" human beings would have preserved these 
  inventions and the knowledge of science, history, etc., does not 
  seem surprising.  Many well known historical personages including 
  Jesus, Buddah, Lao Tzu, Confucious, Krishna, Zoroaster, Mahavira, 
  Quetzalcoatl, Akhenaton, Moses, and more recent inventors and of 
  course many other people who will probably remain anonymous, were 
  probably members of such a secret organization. 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. These "flying saucers" did not use any 
  atomic bombs or beam weapons on Alexander's army however, perhaps 
  out of benevolence, and Alexander went on to conquer India.It has 
  been suggested by many writers that these "Brotherhoods" keep some 
  of their Vimanas and Vailixi in secret caverns in Tibet or some 
  other place is Central Asia, and the Lop Nor Desert in western 
  China is known to be the centre of a great UFO mystery. Perhaps it 
  is here that many of the airships are still kept, in underground 
  bases much as the Americans, British and Soviets have built around 
  the world in the past few decades. Still, not all UFO activity can 
  be accounted for by old Vimanas making trips to the Moon for some 
  reason.
  
  Undoubtedly, some are from the Military Governments of the world, 
  and possibly even from other planets. Of course, many UFO sightings 
  are "swamp, gas, clouds, hoaxes, and hallucinations, while there is 
  considerable evidence that many UFO sightings, especially 
  "kidnappings" and the like, are the result of what is generally 
  called "telepathic hypnosis." 
  
  One common thread that often runs between "Alien kidnappings," "sex 
  with aliens," and other "close encounters of a third kind" is a 
  buzzing in the ears just before the encounter. According to many 
  well informed people, this is a sure sign of telepathic hypnosis.

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