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- Date: 6 May 1995 20:21:17 GMT
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- This txt.file in my belief can without a doubt be included in the UFO
- dilemma, which we are all interested in, however you'll be the ultimate
- judge.
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-
- From: rkrouse@netcom.com (Robert K. Rouse)
-
- Ancient Indian Aircraft Technology
- by D. Hatcher Childress
- from The Anti-Gravity Handbook available from:
-
- Adventures Unlimited Press, Post Office Box 22, Stelle, IL USA
- 60919-9989
- (815) 253-6390, write for their free catalog.
-
- "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 one 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
- wnating to keep such knowledge a secret, assuming it exists. If the
- nazis had such weapons at their disposal during World War II. 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.
- 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 "laghma" 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 the 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 definetely that interplanetary travel
- was ever made but did not 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 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 type 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 norbreak. 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". Vimans 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 kindd of hangar, 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 of
- From: rkrouse@netcom.com (Robert K. Rouse)
- Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors,alt.paranet.ufo,alt.paranet.science
- Subject: Ancient Indian Aircraft Technology
- Date: 11 Nov 93 08:17:22 GMT
- Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760
- guest)
-
-
- Ancient Indian Aircraft Technology
-
- by D. Hatcher Childress
-
- from The Anti-Gravity Handbook avaliable from:
-
- Adventures Unlimited Press, Post Office Box 22, Stelle, IL, USA
- 60919-9989
-
- (815) 253-6390, Write for their FREE catalog.
-
-
- 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 undertand Ashoka's reasoning for
- wanting to keep such knowledge a secret, assuming it exists. if
- the Nazis had such weapons at their disposal during World War
- II. 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.
-
- 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 hangar, 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 princible 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 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 forewards 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 boar-
-
- ding. Passengers please proceed to gate number..")
-
- in Tibet, no small distance, and speaks of the "fiery chariot"
- thusly: "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 temperement.
- 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 manuvering 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. An incandescent column of smoke and flame As
- bright as the thousand suns rose in all its splendor... 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
- archeologists 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 stone
- walls have literaly 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
- 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 center 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."
-
-
-