There are reference to
flying machines in the temple carvings and in the ancient writings.
The
images found on the ceiling beams of a 3000-year old New Kingdom Temple,
located several hundred miles south of Cairo and the Giza Plateau, at Abydos resembles modern day
Aircrafts.
Reference to ancient
Indian flying vehicles comes from ancient Indian sources,
many are the well known ancient Indian Epics, and there are literally hundreds
of them. Most of them have not even been translated into English yet from the
old sanskrit.
It is
claimed that 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."
19th Century Flying references
Shivkar Bapuji Talpade born
in 1864, was a Sanskrit scholar. His birth place is Chirabazar at Dukkarwadi in
Bombay. From his young age was attracted by the
Vaimanika Shastra (Aeronautical Science) expounded by
the great Indian sage
Maharishi
Bhardwaja.
One western
scholar of Indology Stephen-Knapp has tried to explain what Talpade did. According to Knapp, the Vaimanika Shastra describes in detail, the construction
of what is called, the mercury vortex engine the forerunner of the ion engines
being made today.
Shivkur Bapuji Talpade’s unmanned aircraft flew to a height of 1500 feet
before crashing down and the historian, Knapp adds that additional information on
the mercury engines can be found in the ancient Vedic text
called Samaranga Sutradhara.
This text also devotes 230 verses, to the use of these machines in peace and
war.
The Indologist William
Clarendon, who has written down a detailed description of the mercury vortex engine in his translation of Samaranga Sutradhara quotes thus,
‘Inside the
circular air frame, place the mercury-engine with its solar mercury boiler at
the aircraft center. By means of the power latent in the heated mercury which
sets the driving whirlwind in motion a man sitting inside may travel a great
distance in a most marvelous manner.
Four strong mercury containers must be built into the interior structure. When
these have been heated by fire through solar or other sources the vimana (aircraft) develops thunder-power
through the mercury. It is also added that this success of an Indian scientist
was not liked by the Imperial rulers.
Warned by the British Government the Maharaja of Baroda stopped helping Talpade. His efforts to make
known the greatness of Vedic Shastras was recognized by Indian scholars, who
gave him the title of Vidya
Prakash Pra-deep.
Anti-Gravity
Studies
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 devastating wars using such advanced vehicles and other
"futuristic weapons" that had destroyed the ancient Indian "Rama Empire" several thousand years before.
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").
In
1875, the Vaimanika Shastra,
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
Shastra (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.
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 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 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 inancient 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. Writings 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.
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 maneuvering 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,
"saucershaped
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."
"ANCIENT VIMANA AIRCRAFT" - a Contribution by
John Burrows Sanskrit texts are filled with references to gods who fought
battles in the sky using Vimanas equipped with weapons as deadly as any
we can deploy in these more enlightened times. For example, there is a passage
in the Ramayana which reads:
"The Puspaka car that resembles the Sun and belongs to
my brother was brought by the powerful Ravan; that aerial and excellent car
going everywhere at will .... that car resembling a bright cloud in the
sky."
".. and
the King [Rama] got in, and the excellent car at the command of the Raghira,
rose up into the higher atmosphere."
In the Mahabharatra,
an ancient Indian poem of enormous length, we learn that an individual named Asura Maya had a Vimana measuring twelve cubits in
circumference, with four strong wheels. The poem is a veritable gold mine of
information relating to conflicts between gods who settled their differences
apparently using weapons as lethal as the ones we are capable of deploying.
Apart from ’blazing missiles’, the poem records the use of other deadly
weapons. ’Indra’s Dart’ operated via a circular ’reflector’.
When switched on, it produced a ’shaft of light’ which,
when focused on any target, immediately ’consumed it with its power’. In one
particular exchange, the hero, Krishna,
is pursuing his enemy, Salva,
in the sky, when Salva’s Vimana, the Saubha is made invisible in some way.
Undeterred, Krishna immediately fires off a special weapon:
’I quickly
laid on an arrow, which killed by seeking out sound’.
Many other terrible weapons are described, quite matter of
factly, in the Mahabharata,
but the most fearsome of all is the one used against the Vrishis. The narrative
records:
"Gurkha
flying in his swift and powerful Vimana hurled against the three cities of the
Vrishis and Andhakas a single projectile charged with all the power of the
Universe. An incandescent column of smoke and fire, as brilliant as ten
thousands suns, rose in all its splendor. It was the unknown weapon, the Iron Thunderbolt, a gigantic
messenger of death which reduced to ashes the entire race of the Vrishnisand Andhakas."
It is
important to note, that these kinds of records are not isolated. They can be
cross-correlated with similar reports in other ancient civilizations.
The after-affects of this Iron
Thunderbolt have an ominously
recognizable ring. Apparently, those killed by it were so burnt that their
corpses were unidentifiable. The survivors fared little etter, as it caused
their hair and nails to fall out. Perhaps the most disturbing and challenging,
information about these allegedly mythical Vimanas in the ancient records is
that there are some matter-of-fact records, describing how to build one. In
their way, the instructions are quite precise. In the Sanskrit Samarangana Sutradhara, it is
written:
"Strong
and durable must the body of the Vimana be made, like a great flying bird of
light material. Inside one must put the mercury engine with its iron heating
apparatus underneath. 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. The movements of the Vimana are such that it can
vertically ascend, vertically descend, move slanting forwards and backwards.
With the help of the machines human beings can fly in the air and heavenly
beings can come down to earth."
The Hakatha (Laws of the Babylonians) states quite
unambiguously:
"The
privilege of operating a flying
machine is great. The
knowledge of flight is among the most ancient of our inheritances. A gift from
’those from upon high’. We received it from them as a means of saving
many lives."
More fantastic still is the information given in the
ancient Chaldean work, The Sifrala,
which contains over one hundred pages of technical details on building a flying
machine. It contains words which translate as graphite rod, copper coils,
crystal indicator, vibrating spheres, stable angles, etc.
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The Tanjore big temple contains more than 100 underground passages to various places. The underground passages also contain some secret passage that leads to various places like the Palace of Raja Raja chola and also to other important places. The underground passages lead to the other temples and also to the other places in and around Tanjore. Most of the underground passages were sealed and if the people choose the wrong passage then there are possibilities that the path may also lead to the dangers. This can also be a trap for the kingdom safety of Raja Raja Chola.
The biggest mystery of all the other mystery in Tanjore big temple is the huge cap stone in the top of the Tanjore big temple. The weight of the cap stone at the top of Tanjore big temple weighs 80 tons. The main exclamation about the cap stone is that how come the builders of Tanjore big temple were able to place the cap stone at the top of the Gopuram(Monumental Tower) in Tanjore big temple. There were no cranes or any high end equipments used in those days to do these works. The only thing that can help is the elephants. The huge cap of Tanjore big temple is constructed in such a way that the shadow of the Tanjore big temple Gopuram(Monumental Tower) will not fall on the ground. It will just fall on itself. This particular planning and type of construction is not an easy task to go with.
The granite stones are one of the strongest stones in the world. With the strength of the granite stone the stone is also equally heavy enough that it cannot be carried from one place to other place in the easy way. The stones that are used in Tanjore big temple were brought from a place that is 50 miles away from the Tanjore big temple. Without elephants the work might not be possible for the transportation of the rocks from that place. It is said that more than 1000 elephants were used for the construction of the Tanjore big temple. The ancestors of Chola kingdom were good enough to build temples with the granite stones.
The cutting and carving of the granite stone is not an easy task even today. We can't even imagine how this would have made possible in those days without any special equipment. The Granites are the strongest stones in the world and it is definitely not an easy task to cut and carve the granite stones. When compared to carving cutting and shaping is the definitely difficult task. Those days the rocks were made small holes as a like and the holes were filled with the water and after a long period of time the rocks will automatically break. This was how the rocks were broken. But even today the cutting of a granite rocks take more than one hour and several gallons of water for the cutting with the help of the advanced equipments.
The secret passages were also built by Raja Raja Chola in his period of time. The secret passages were something different from the underground passages. The underground passages were built to connect several temples built by him together. Secret passage were built in such a way that it connects the secret places of the chola kings together like the one that connects the Palace of Raja Raja Chola and the Tanjore big temple. The secret passages in Tanjore big temple also consisted of many paintings that represent the greatness of Raja Raja Chola. There will be one painting that represents Raja Raja Chola offering his respect to his Guru. Most of the underground passages were blocked and closed because of the safety reasons. There were also some dangers in some of the underground passages from Tanjore big temple.
