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Ok, thanks, will try to look it up on ********. <= t.orrents
Ancient aliens is LOL, that Greek with bad hairstyle taste and i'm sorry to say von Daniken from Switzerland. And then there was some English guy, thin, reddish on face, he looked like he was an ex heroine addict. I nearly forgot the nutty American and the fat Jew that both look into the camera with complete innocence on their face and reveal such utter bullshit it's amazing.

Below is a caption of one of these moments:

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Most of our Epics have them. In particular, in the epic Mahabharata, the Drona prava especially explains these use of these weapons.

Drona Parva - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Excerpt of the Drona Parva Chapter ten:

"Drona's son then began a colossal carnage on the front line of battle. He
piled up a mountain of heads from the Pandava army. Then touching water and
invoking the Narayana astra, Ashvatthama aimed that invincible weapon at the
Pandava army. The earth began to tremble and a great wind storm appeared on the
Kurukshetra plain. In the heavens hundreds of thousands of celestial arrows
appeared with flaming mouths. Maces, battle axes, Sataghnis, javelins and
discs, effulgent as the sun, appeared in the sky, numbering tens of thousands.
Coming down upon the Pandava army, those weapons began to destroy countless
men. That divine weapon, owned by Lord Narayana, began to consume the Pandava
army like a wild fire consumes dry grass.

Witnessing the slaughter of troops, all the Pandavas fell into anxiety, not
knowing what to do. Lord Krishna, the protector of His devotees, then ordered
the troops, "Lay down your weapons and descend from your chariots, horses and
elephants. If you lay weaponless on the earth, this astra will not harm you. If
you even think of battle within your mind, this weapon will kill you. Give up
all thoughts of war and fix your minds in a peaceful state."

Hearing this advice, all the soldiers threw down their weapons and laid on the
ground. However, Bhimasena, refused to surrender to the weapon. He yelled to
all present, "None of the warriors should lay down their weapons. I shall
oppose this astra. With my heavy mace, I shall stop the force of this weapon. O
Arjuna, you should not lay down the Gandiva bow for a stain will come upon your
glory."

Thus addressed by Bhima, Arjuna replied, "My vow is that this Gandiva bow
shall not be used against women, cows, brahmanas and or any weapon owned by
Lord Narayana." Bhima did not heed Lord Krishna's advice or the action of
Arjuna. He rushed forward on his chariot to challenge Ashvatthama. Drona's son,
smiling all the while, then began to direct the astra at Bhima. Indeed, that
great weapon passed over all the soldiers and concentrated on Bhima's head.
Suddenly Bhima appeared like a fiery mountain. Quickly Arjuna covered him with
the Varuna weapon that cooled the blazing heat. He released that weapon so
quickly that no one knew of it, not even Ashvatthama. The Narayana astra built
up in strength, and the chariot of Bhima was blazing with fire. Seeing the
certain death of Bhima, both Arjuna and Krishna rushed to save him. They jumped
in his chariot, which was protected by the Varuna weapon and forced Bhima to
the ground. Bhima was sighing like a snake and refused to part with his
weapons. Then Lord Krishna pacified him, "O son of Pandu, although I have
forbidden you, you have not thrown down your weapons. If Arjuna could have
countered this weapon, then I would have never recommended the army stop
fighting. Just see, all the warriors have given up their weapons. If you do not
do the same, this weapon will destroy you." Bhima then reluctantly threw aside
his weapons and laid down upon the ground. Thus pacified, the Narayana astra
refrained from killing the Pandava troops.

When the heat of that weapon had cooled, sweet breezes began to blow and a
fragrant aroma appeared in the wind. Beholding the pacification of the Narayana
astra, the Pandavas again stood ready for battle. Duryodhana rushed to
Ashvatthama and requested, "O foremost brahmana, release this weapon again for
the Pandavas are forming their troops for victory."

"O King," Ashvatthama replied, "that weapon cannot be invoked again. If it is,
it will undoubtedly slay the person who releases it. Vasudeva has baffled this
weapon. I will, however, use my other weapons for slaughtering the Pandava
host."

Making this resolution and seeing Lord Krishna and Arjuna present before him,
Ashvatthama invoked the Agneya weapon which caused intense fire to appear.
Arrows with intense flames fell upon the Pandava soldiers scorching their
bodies. Ashvatthama then directed that weapon toward the chariot of Krishna and
Arjuna. The Agneya weapon killed thousands upon thousands of chariot fighters,
elephants and horsemen like a forest fire destroys trees. To save the Army,
Arjuna invoked the Brahmastra weapon which countered the weapon released by
Ashvatthama. When both weapons were withdrawn, the Pandavas saw that a full
akshauhini division had been burnt by the weapon. So scorched were the soldiers
that they could not be distinguished. Both armies thought that Krishna and
Arjuna had been killed by the weapon, but upon seeing them in their chariot,
the Pandava warriors cheered loudly and blew their conchshells.

When his astra had been baffled, Ashvatthama did not know what to do. He
descended from his chariot and ran away from the fight. As he was leaving the
battlefield, he came upon Vyasadeva. He offered his obeisances unto him and
spoke to him with tearful eyes, "O great sage, why has my Narayana astra born
no fruit? This fiery weapon has the power to destroy the whole Pandava army.
Why then has it been pacified after the slaughter of only one akshauhini
division of troops? O great muni, I desire to hear of this in detail."
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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 entirerace 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.
 
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hhmmmm, I thought India was secular, and Hinduism was more like the Chinese/Jaapanese/Korean religions that are more way of life than actual beliefs in things.
 
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hhmmmm, I thought India was secular, and Hinduism was more like the Chinese/Jaapanese/Korean religions that are more way of life than actual beliefs in things.

Hinduism is the closest to Shintoism. There is no apostasy if you do not believe, but then there are no rules against belief either. Majority choose to believe.
 
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Ancient science in India was quite advanced .But claims like this are absolutely absurd.We cant analyse history without any credible evidence.
 
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Ancient science in India was quite advanced .But claims like this are absolutely absurd.We cant analyse history without any credible evidence.
Anybody can claim ancient science to be very advanced in their respective countries but mythological texts are no proof of any sort. It is best to abstain oneself from blabbering over this, while at the same time keep researching for the archaeological records/findings of significance. Please note that it is archeology that matters not the mythology.
 
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ad then you complain why the world laughs at you people


Indians were flying aeroplanes, carrying out stem cell research and may even have been using cosmic weapons 5,000 years ago, according to the chairman of India's leading historical organisation.

Professor Y Sudershan Rao, the head of the Indian Council of Historical Research, has been criticized by fellow historians for comments that Hindu epics are adequate to understand the ancient world, rather than relying on evidence or research.

The Hindu nationalist government appointed Rao to the prestigious academic post soon after winning the biggest landslide in three decades, fuelling concerns of a push to teach the superiority of Hindu values and mythology at the cost of academic rigour, and cutting against the grain of secularism that runs through multi-faith modern India.

"We have so many proofs that these events happened," Rao, 69, said in an interview, describing events in the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, the ancient Hindu epics about love and war, truth and deceit, that feature characters using inextinguishable fire and weapons with the destructive power of a nuclear arsenal.

Similar views have won support from Prime Minister Narendra Modi and in part reflect a belief that India's history books are beholden to colonial powers, foreign invaders and Marxists.

While there is debate over the exact age of the Hindu epics, historians say they were probably written at least two millennia ago. Rao says this in itself is proof the texts are factual because humans did not develop the art of fiction writing until a few centuries back.

Many academics are horrified by such views, and describe his appointment as a blow for the history organisation set up four decades ago to guide research and hand out grants. They point to signs of a broader plan to bring more Hinduism to the classroom through changes to the curriculum.

Two Indian states run by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party have recruited controversial Hindu nationalist Dinanath Batra to advise on writing textbooks.

In June, thousands of schools in Gujarat were given textbooks by Batra that claimed cars were invented in ancient India and told children to draw an enlarged nation to include countries including Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.

Teachers at Batra's organisation say they want the books to be in every school.

"The lessons from today's history books are that Indians are nothing and good for nothing," said Atul Kothari, secretary of Batra's Shiksha Bachao Andolan Samiti, or Save the Education Movement. "The truth is that historically we have been a far superior race."

Education Minister Smriti Irani, a former soap actress, declined to comment on what revisions will be included in a review of the curriculum planned next year.

The last time the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party was in power a decade ago it began to rewrite school books in line with Hindu-nationalist orthodoxy.

When the rival Congress party came back to power it rewrote the books again. Academics say the loser in all this are confused, and sometimes ill-informed, school children.

Modi is the first prime minister to publicly back the view that holy texts show many discoveries of modern science were made by ancient Indians. He told an audience of doctors last month that the Hindu god Ganesh's head was evidence of ancient plastic surgery. A warrior the Mahabharata describes as born outside his mother's womb was a test-tube baby, Modi said.

"These claims can be interpreted as signs of an inferiority complex," said Romila Thapar, a leading scholar on ancient India. "The most disturbing thing is that many people accept this without questioning it," said Thapar, whose books one BJP leader has said should be burned.



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Where can i read more of this "theory" about ancient weapons? Like schematics, dates and alike?

This is a serious question, as i'm doing some hobby research into history of man. Specifically the era's mentioned here, 5000BC and earlier.

Can you tell us something you already know about 5000BC?
 
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Anybody can claim ancient science to be very advanced in their respective countries but mythological texts are no proof of any sort. It is best to abstain oneself from blabbering over this, while at the same time keep researching for the archaeological records/findings of significance. Please note that it is archeology that matters not the mythology.

We have known evidence of the advancement of science in our nation including Susruta (first known even of plastic surgery),Charaka , We have their books in our syllabus for Ayurveda course.Our ancestors created huge advancement
in astronomy ,mathematics,political science ,medicine etc.
 
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Or Buraq? They all have something common, ie they all are myths and BS.

Buraq - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
You are always good at showing your cheapness and hatred towards Muslims and Islam. Why Burraq? Why not the Unicorn?

The point is not who believes in what, the point is neither Muslims nor Christians or Jews (or followers of other religions) present their mythological figures/beliefs/texts as 'proof' of the existence of some ancient super science in their lands. This crap is synonym with Indians, and only Indians.
 
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These idiots are providing good comedy these days. :lol:
 
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These idiots are providing good comedy these days. :lol:

Very soon a definite group will come and say, "those who doesn't believe the superior advancement mentioned in Vedas, should be sent to Pakistan." :D
 
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