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Subject: Ancient Vimana Aircraft
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Date: Sat, 21 Oct 95 16:27 PDT


                  Ancient Indian Aircraft Technology
                    From The Anti-Gravity Handbook

                        by D. Hatcher Childress

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 contrl." 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 Indianepics,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
subcontinent 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 doubledeck, 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. ext
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 engine 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 "ageold 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 seet, 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 "ahnihotravimana" 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 withoutapparent 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 "Brotheroods" 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 hypnois.

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