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1999: Ancient Vimana Aircraft

John Burrows Summary: 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. 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 […] Read More

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1999: UFOpsi – Vimanas

Summary: Many ancient documents written in Sanskrit, especially one called “Vimanika“, written by Bharadvajy and found in 1875 inside an old Indian temple, describes how to build “vimanas” (celestial chariot), how to pilot one and so on. In other documents, it is said that certain Gods traveled and ruled everywhere on their vimanas. Many ancient documents are written in Sanskrit, especially one called “Vimanika“, written by Bharadvajy and found in 1875 inside an old Indian temple, describes how to build “vimanas” (celestial chariot), how to pilot one and so on. In other documents, it is said that certain Gods traveled and ruled everywhere on their vimanas. Made of wood or metal, the first ones of wood and covered with a substance that gave them […] Read More

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1999: The Story of Vimanas

Dr. Srikumar V. Gopalakrishna In the Vedic literature of India, there are many descriptions of flying machines that are generally called vimanas. These fall into two categories: (l) manmade craft that resemble airplanes and fly with the aid of birdlike wings, and (2) unstreamlined structures that fly in a mysterious manner and are generally not made by human beings. The machines in category (l) are described mainly in medieval, secular Sanskrit works dealing with architecture, automata, military siege engines, and other mechanical contrivances. Those in category (2) are described in ancient works such as the Rg Veda, the Maha-bha-rata, the Rama-yana, and the Pura-nas. In addition, there is one book entitled Vaima-nika-sa-stra that was dictated in trance during this century and purports to be […] Read More

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2000: Secrets of the Vimana

Illuminations The Ancient Legends All images by Kamini Singh from South Asian Women’s Forum – Monday, Oct 16, 2000 (1) An Overview of the Literature “In various kinds of Asian and South Asian texts, we find references to flying machines and aerial vehicles. Chinese and Indian stories tell of peoples or individual artisans who constructed devices for traveling through the air. The stories take many different forms, including quite fanciful romances. Others present a picture of inventors taking pains to understand the basic principles of flight, and crafting machines of wood to achieve this goal.” – Dr. Benjamin B. Olshin, “Mechanical Mythology: Private Descriptions of Flying Machines as Found in Early Chinese, Korean, Indian, and Other Texts” (draft copy) The word vimana is purportedly derived […] Read More