Perhaps, in the fairy tales of any nation of the world, one can find airplane carpets, flying horses and air ships. But the ancient Indian epic is something special. Indian gods and heroes moved and fought in the heavens not on the birds or dragons mentioned in the legends of other peoples, but on piloted aircraft - vimans, on board which there was a terrible weapon.
Attested by tracts
The epic "Samarangana Sutradharan" is a scientific text. considering various aspects of air travel in vimanas. It contains 230 chapters on their construction, takeoff, thousands of kilometers, normal and emergency landings, and even the consequences of possible bird strikes. Another treatise - "Vimanika Shastra" - talks about the operation of vimanas and includes information about their piloting, a story about the features of long-term flights, information about the protection of aircraft from hurricanes and lightning, as well as a guide to switching the engine to solar energy from a source of "free energy”- most likely antigravity. It has eight chapters with diagrams. The treatise describes three types of aircraft, including vimanas, which were designed like this.that they could not catch fire or crash.
In Mahavir Bhavabhuti. the eighth century text, compiled from earlier writings, reads: “The Pushpaka air chariot takes many people to the capital of Ayodhya. The sky is full of huge flying machines, black as night, but littered with yellowish lights. " Apparently, there were several varieties of these ancient aircraft. The Vedas, ancient Hindu poems considered to be the oldest of all Indian texts, describe vimanas of all kinds and sizes. Such as agnihotravimana, or simply agnihotra, with two engines, the work of which was accompanied by emissions of flame, the "elephant" -viman - with even more motors, and others called "kingfisher", "ibis" and after other birds.
From kerosene to antigravity
According to Drona Parva, a part of the Mahabharata epic, as well as Ramayana, one of the vimanas was a sphere, rushing at great speed thanks to the wind created with the help of mercury. On other vimanas, the treatises say that they were set in motion by a yellowish-white liquid or a special mercury mixture, although it seems that the authors did not have confidence in this matter. Most likely, the later authors were only scribes and used early texts, so they were confused by the description of the principle of movement. The “yellowish-white liquid” resembles either gasoline or kerosene, and it is possible that the Vimans had various engines - internal combustion, jet, and also some antigravity generators.
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Some ufologists believe that among the nine books written by the Society of Nine Unknowns, established by the ancient Indian king Ashoka. there was a work called "Secrets of Gravity". This book, known to historians, but never seen by them, was devoted to the problem of overcoming gravity. Presumably, it is still kept in one of the secret libraries in India or Tibet. Perhaps even in North America, where it could have entered not without the efforts of American and British intelligence services.
Flying between the stars
Ancient sources claim that there were flying machines for wandering within the "Surya mandala" and "Nakshatra mandala". What is this beyond? "Surya" in Sanskrit and modern Hindi means sun, "mandala" - sphere, region, "nakshatra" - star. It seems that these are indications of flights within the solar system and even the seemingly and now fantastic interstellar distances. According to myths, the ancient Indians were deeply convinced that in the universe there are many "other worlds and spaces" inhabited by perfect beings.
Several years ago, the Chinese discovered in Lhasa (Tibet) several documents on ancient aeronautics written in Sanskrit and sent them for translation to Chandrigarh University in India. The results of the translators' work were literally sensational. Dr. Ruf Reyna of the university said the documents contain instructions for building interstellar spaceships. She said that the mode of movement of these devices was anti-gravity, and aboard the machines, which are called "asters" in the text, ancient Indians could send people to any planet in the solar system. It is also curious that, according to the British researcher John Burroughs, the author of the book "Wymana - an ancient flying machine",during the global war between the Aryans and Atlanteans, which broke out in unthinkable ancient times, battles with the use of such aircraft were fought near the moon.
Alloys and weapons
The treatise "Vimanik Prakaranam" contains a description of various devices that performed, according to today's concepts, the functions of radars, cameras, searchlights and used, in particular, the energy of the sun, as well as descriptions of various types of weapons. The treatise also says about the pilots' food, their clothing. According to the text, aircraft were created from various metals. Three of their main types are mentioned: somaka, soundalika, maurthvika, as well as alloys that can withstand very high temperatures. In 1992, the newspaper "India Express" reported that ancient texts were found in the area of Karnataka, which are a guide to the creation of superalloys with properties unknown to modern technologists. An employee of the Indian government department named Prabhu said that five alloys were recreated by Indian specialists.and their tests were carried out abroad, including at the University of San Jose, USA. The most extraordinary of them is the lead alloy of Tamogarbha Loha, capable of absorbing up to 85% of the energy emitted by a ruby laser.
The Vimanik Prakaranam also describes seven mirrors and lenses that were installed on board the vimaanas for visual observation. One of them - the Pindjula mirror - was intended to protect the pilots' eyes from the blinding "devil's rays" of the enemy. In aerial battles, vimanas could use "bright missiles". Indra's deadly "dart" was operated using a round reflector. When turned on, it gave a beam of light, which, being focused on any target, immediately "devoured it with its power."
Bright as 10,000 suns
Such a case is described in the Mahabharata. When Krishna pursued his enemy Shalva in the sky, Shalva's vimana - saubha - became invisible. Undaunted, Krishna used a special weapon: "I quickly put in an arrow, which killed, looking for the sound." Other types of destructive weapons are also described very reliably in the Mahabharata. The worst of these was used against Vrish. The epic says: “Gurkha, flying on his fast and powerful vimana, threw a single projectile at the three cities of Vrishi and Andhak, charged with all the power of the Universe. An incandescent column of smoke and fire, bright as 10,000 suns, rose in all its glory. It was an unknown weapon, the Iron Thunderbolt, the gigantic messenger of death who reduced the entire race of Vrsha and Andhaks to ash."
Isn't it: this is very similar to describing a nuclear explosion? But when did all sorts of vimanas roam the sky and outer space, and when did the global war mentioned in ancient texts break out? Some researchers talk about "Star Wars 5000 years ago." Others, such as the Indian writer Eklal Kueshane, tend to attribute all these events to the era that began with the flourishing of civilization 20 thousand years ago and ended with the war that preceded the Great Flood, which was supposedly 10-12 thousand years ago. Moscow indologist Sergei Bulantsev even suggests that we can talk about a time period of 15-20 million years ago. We can only guess which one is right.
Pavel Bukin. Magazine "Secrets of the XX century" No. 21 2010