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The work Vymanika Shastra has appeared in twentieth century in
Sanskrit transcript form and subsequently translated versions in Hindi
and English have been derived. There are different versions with
different titles leading to possible confusion among the readers and
research scholars. We have therefore devoted some effort to place the
facts in the right perspective.
In this process, it is appropriate to commence this topic with the
narration front-lined on G.R. Josyers publication, which reads as
follows.
Maharshi Bharadwajas Vymanika Shastra or Science of Aeronautics
as revealed to venerable Subbaraya Shastry and recorded in hand
written Sanskrit script form, translated to English by G.R. Josyer.M.A
[hons] FRES, MRSE.
Four variants with different titles are as follows:
A] Vymanika prakaranam
B] Vymanika shastra
C] Vimana shastra
D] Bruhad Vimana Shastra
The variant referred to as Vymanika Shastra published in Sanskrit-
English languages had its base on the copies sent to Oriental
Libraries in 1919 and something more. The work remained in manuscript
form till 1923 and even later. But between 1919 and 1923 there is
evidence of add on textual content to the work in the form of
description and diagrams of four types of representative vimanas --
Sundara, Shakuna, Rukma and Tripura vimana. The work of making
drawings was entrusted to a draughtsman T.K. Ellappa working in an
engineering school. The drawings were prepared by him and appended as
approved by Sri Subbaraya Shastry on 2nd December 1923. This is the
last occasion that any material went into the Sanskrit transcript. The
transcripts remained in exercise-book-form for the next three decades
under the joint custody of Sri Shastrijis adopted son and Sri
Venkatachala Sharma. It was in 1952 that the books found the light of
the day when they were brought into an exhibition of antique works
conducted by International Academy of Sanskrit Research, Mysore. Mr.
G. R. Josyer, being the Honorary Director of the Academy showed
tremendous initiative. Translation work took a long time and
eventually Vymanika Shastra was published on 15th March 1973. This
book became the reference work for many in South India & abroad.
For practical purposes, only Vymanika Shastra and Bruhad Vimana
shastra can be taken as reference, the other titles are only of
academic nature. Sri Josyers publication is taken for reference by
the study team.
Going into essential differences between the two variants, apart from
English-Hindi translations, Maharshi Bharadwajas original version
extracted from Yantra Sarwaswa contained 500 Sutras {rules}, 8
Chapters and 10 Adikaranas. Vymanika Shastra [English version]
contains six chapters, 2972 verses. Bruhad vimana shastra contains 40
rules in 3 chapters and 2657 verses.
In substance, Bruhad Vimana Shastra has 315 verses less. This is
possibly because of addition of descriptions of 4 vimanas that
Vymanika Shastra contains today. This difference will not matter as
much as the difference we see from the original work to the
transcripted work. The reasons for this could be ascribed to various
factors:
The period of transcription spanned for over 15 years and the
manuscript copies waited in the freezer for 3 to 4 decades. As G. R.
Josyer observes The transcripts came in various forms of decay.
Loss of such literature through pests, quality of paper, loss during
transit, change of hands could well be imagined. Further, such works
that claimed to be of ancient Indian origin did not find recognition
during the British colonial rule facing freedom struggle. It is said
that even possession of such literature was considered Anti-British.
The scholars who possessed such works had to keep them concealed. Loss
of sheets, obliteration of manuscripts, environmental influences could
have taken a heavy toll.
The various advantages of using machines, especially flying ones, are given elaborately. Special mention is made of their use at ones will and pleasure, of their uninterrupted movements, of their strength and durability, in short of their capability to do in the air all that is done on earth. Three movements are usually ascribed to these machines, - ascending, cruising thousands of miles in different directions in the atmosphere and lastly descending. It is said that in an aerial car one can mount up to Suryamandala, solar region and the Naksatra mandala (stellar region) and also travel throughout the regions of air above the sea and the earth. These cars are said to move so fast as to make a noise that could be heard faintly from the ground. The evidence in its favor is overwhelming.
An aerial car is made of light, wood looking like a great bird with a durable and well-formed body having mercury inside and fire at the bottom. It had two resplendent wings, and is propelled by air. It flies in the atmospheric regions for a great distance and carries several persons along with it. The inside construction resembles heaven created by Brahma himself. Iron, copper, lead and other metals are also used for these machines. All these show how far art and science was developed in ancient India in this direction. Such elaborate description ought to meet the criticism that the vimanas and similar aerial vehicles mentioned in ancient Indian literature should beThe pilot is one who knows the secrets"
Bodhaanada: Scientists say that there are 32 secrets of the working of the Vimaana. A pilot should acquaint himself thoroughly with them before he can be deemed competent to handle the aeroplane. He must know the structure of the aeroplane, know the means of its take off and ascent to the sky, know how to drive it and how to halt it when necessary, how to maneuver it and make it perform spectacular feats in the sky without crashing. Those secrets are given in "Rahashya Lahari" and other works by Lalla and other masters, are are described thus:
"The pilot should have had training in maantrica and taantrica, kritaka and antaraalaka, goodha or hidden, drishya and adrishya or seen and unseen, paroksha and aparoksha, contraction and expansion, changing shape, look frightening, look pleasing, become luminous or enveloped in darkness, deluge or pralaya, vimukha, taara, stun by thunderstorm din, jump, move zig-zag like serpent, chaapala, face all sides, hear distant sounds, take pictures, know enemy maneuver, know direction of enemy approach, stabdhaka or paralyse, and karshana or exercise magnetic pull.
These 32 secrets the pilot should learn from competent preceptors and only such a person is fit to be entrusted with an aeroplane, and not others.
Some of these secrets are:
1. Goodha: As explained in 'Vaayutatva-Prakarana', by harnessing the powers, Yaasaa, Viyaasaa, Prayaasaa in the 8th atmospheric layer covering the earth, to attract the dark content of the solar ray, and use it to hide the Vimana from the enemy.
2. Drishya: By collision of the electric power and wind power in the atmosphere, a glow is created, whose reflection is to be caught in the Vishwa-Kriya-drapana or mirror at the front of the Vimana, and by its manipulation produce a Maaya-Vimana or camouflaged Vimana.
3. Vimukha: As mentioned in "Rig-hridaya", by projecting the force of Kubera, Vimukha and Vyshawaanara poison powder through the third tube of the roudree mirror and turning the switch of the air mechanism, produce wholesale insensibility and coma.
4. Roopaakarshana: By means of the photographic yantra in the Vimana to obtain a television view of things inside an enemy's plane.
5. Stabdhak: By projecting apasmaara poison fume smoke through the tube on the north side on the Vimana, and discharging it with stambhana yantra, people in enemy planes will be made unconscious.
6. Chaapla: On sighting an enemy plane, by turning the switch in the force center in the middle section of the Vimana, a 4087 revolutions an hour atmospheric wave speed will be generated, and shake up the enemy plane.
7. Parashabda Graahaka: As explained in the "Sowdaaminee Kalaa: or science of electronics, by means of the sound capturing yantra in the Vimana, to hear the talks and sound in enemy planes flying in the sky.
****
According to Shownaka, the regions of the sky are 5, named, Rekhaapathaha, Mandala, Kakshaya, shakti and Kendra. In these 5 atmospheric regions, ther are 5,19,800 air ways traversed by Vimanas of the Seven Lokas or worlds, known as Bhooloka, Bhuvarloka, Suvarloka, Maholoka, Janoloka, Tapoloka and Satyaloka. Dhundinaatha and "Valalmeeki Ganita" state that Rekha has 7,03,00,800 air routes. Mandala has 20,08,00200 air routes, Kakshya has 2,09,00,300 air routes, Shakti has 10,01,300 air routes, and Kendra has 30,08,200 air routes.
It discusses what kind of food to eat, clothing to wear, metals for vimanas, purification of metals, deals with mirrors and lenses which are required to be installed in the vimaanas, mechanical contrivances or yantras and protecting and different types of vimaanas.
The Mahabharata describes "two storey sky chariots with many windows, ejecting red flame, that race up into the sky until they look like comets . . . to the regions of both the sun and the stars."
Other references speak of:
* Pushan sailing in golden ships across the ocean of the sky
* Garuda (a celestial bird) carrying Lord Vishnu in cosmic journeys
* Aerial flights "through the region of the sky firmament which is above the region of the winds"
The Ancients of Space Dimensions.
Aircraft in the Vedic literature are generally referred to as Vimanas. Especially throughout the Mahabharata, Bhagavata Purana, and the Ramayana, these flying devices appear.
The Vimanas described in the Vedas are generally of four types:
Single or two-passenger aircraft;
Huge airships for interplanetary pleasure trips;
Huge military aircraft for warfare;
Self-sufficient flying cities (space stations) for indefinite stay in space.
The third canto of the Bhagavata Purana presents a lengthy account of the yogi Kardama Munis aeronautical adventures. With his mystic power, he produced an aerial-mansion type of vimana and took his wife Devahut on a pleasure tour of the universe. His airship was virtually a flying palace, replete with every possible luxury.
He traveled in that way through the various planets, as the air passes uncontrolled in every direction. Coursing through the air in that great and splendid aerial mansion, which could fly at his will, he surpassed even the demigods. (Shri Bhaagavatam 3.21.41).
The Vedic epic of Ramayana provides details of a majestic aerial mansion vimana.
Hanuman saw in the middle of that residential quarter the great aerial-mansion vehicle called Pushpaka-vimana, decorated with pearls and diamonds, and featured with artistic windows made of refined gold.
It was a very big machine, almost like a big city, and it could fly so high and at such a great speed that it was almost impossible to see
***
" None could gauge its power nor effect its destruction .it was poised in the atmosphere without support. It had the capacity to go anywhere. It stood in the sky like a milestone in the path of the sun. It could fly in any direction that one wanted. It had chambers of remarkable beauty Knowing the intentions of the master, it could go anywhere at high speed.
In both the Mahabharata and the Bhagavata Purana, we get an account of a huge military aircraft belonging to a hostile enemy named Shalva. The parallels with modern UFO reports are inescapable. Here is a summary of the Vedic version:
It was a very big machine, almost like a big city, and it could fly so high and at such a great speed that it was almost impossible to see; so there was no question of attacking it. It appeared to be almost covered in darkness, yet the pilot could fly it anywhere and everywhere. Having acquired such a wonderful airplane, Shalva flew it to the city of Dwaraka because his main purpose in obtaining the airplane was to attack the city of the Yadus, toward whom he maintained a constant feeling of animosity.
The airplane occupied by Shalva was very mysterious. It was so extraordinary that sometimes many airplanes would appear to be in the sky, and sometimes there were apparently none. Sometimes the plane was visible and sometimes not visible, and the warriors of the Yadu dynasty were puzzled about the whereabouts of the peculiar airplane. Sometimes they would see the airplane on the ground, sometimes flying in the sky, sometimes resting on the peak of a hill, and sometimes floating on the water. The wonderful airplane flew in the sky like a whirling firebrand it was not steady even for a moment.
The work Vymanika Shastra has appeared in twentieth century in
Sanskrit transcript form and subsequently translated versions in Hindi
and English have been derived. There are different versions with
different titles leading to possible confusion among the readers and
research scholars. We have therefore devoted some effort to place the
facts in the right perspective.
In this process, it is appropriate to commence this topic with the
narration front-lined on G.R. Josyers publication, which reads as
follows.
Maharshi Bharadwajas Vymanika Shastra or Science of Aeronautics
as revealed to venerable Subbaraya Shastry and recorded in hand
written Sanskrit script form, translated to English by G.R. Josyer.M.A
[hons] FRES, MRSE.
Four variants with different titles are as follows:
A] Vymanika prakaranam
B] Vymanika shastra
C] Vimana shastra
D] Bruhad Vimana Shastra
The variant referred to as Vymanika Shastra published in Sanskrit-
English languages had its base on the copies sent to Oriental
Libraries in 1919 and something more. The work remained in manuscript
form till 1923 and even later. But between 1919 and 1923 there is
evidence of add on textual content to the work in the form of
description and diagrams of four types of representative vimanas --
Sundara, Shakuna, Rukma and Tripura vimana. The work of making
drawings was entrusted to a draughtsman T.K. Ellappa working in an
engineering school. The drawings were prepared by him and appended as
approved by Sri Subbaraya Shastry on 2nd December 1923. This is the
last occasion that any material went into the Sanskrit transcript. The
transcripts remained in exercise-book-form for the next three decades
under the joint custody of Sri Shastrijis adopted son and Sri
Venkatachala Sharma. It was in 1952 that the books found the light of
the day when they were brought into an exhibition of antique works
conducted by International Academy of Sanskrit Research, Mysore. Mr.
G. R. Josyer, being the Honorary Director of the Academy showed
tremendous initiative. Translation work took a long time and
eventually Vymanika Shastra was published on 15th March 1973. This
book became the reference work for many in South India & abroad.
For practical purposes, only Vymanika Shastra and Bruhad Vimana
shastra can be taken as reference, the other titles are only of
academic nature. Sri Josyers publication is taken for reference by
the study team.
Going into essential differences between the two variants, apart from
English-Hindi translations, Maharshi Bharadwajas original version
extracted from Yantra Sarwaswa contained 500 Sutras {rules}, 8
Chapters and 10 Adikaranas. Vymanika Shastra [English version]
contains six chapters, 2972 verses. Bruhad vimana shastra contains 40
rules in 3 chapters and 2657 verses.
In substance, Bruhad Vimana Shastra has 315 verses less. This is
possibly because of addition of descriptions of 4 vimanas that
Vymanika Shastra contains today. This difference will not matter as
much as the difference we see from the original work to the
transcripted work. The reasons for this could be ascribed to various
factors:
The period of transcription spanned for over 15 years and the
manuscript copies waited in the freezer for 3 to 4 decades. As G. R.
Josyer observes The transcripts came in various forms of decay.
Loss of such literature through pests, quality of paper, loss during
transit, change of hands could well be imagined. Further, such works
that claimed to be of ancient Indian origin did not find recognition
during the British colonial rule facing freedom struggle. It is said
that even possession of such literature was considered Anti-British.
The scholars who possessed such works had to keep them concealed. Loss
of sheets, obliteration of manuscripts, environmental influences could
have taken a heavy toll.
The various advantages of using machines, especially flying ones, are given elaborately. Special mention is made of their use at ones will and pleasure, of their uninterrupted movements, of their strength and durability, in short of their capability to do in the air all that is done on earth. Three movements are usually ascribed to these machines, - ascending, cruising thousands of miles in different directions in the atmosphere and lastly descending. It is said that in an aerial car one can mount up to Suryamandala, solar region and the Naksatra mandala (stellar region) and also travel throughout the regions of air above the sea and the earth. These cars are said to move so fast as to make a noise that could be heard faintly from the ground. The evidence in its favor is overwhelming.
An aerial car is made of light, wood looking like a great bird with a durable and well-formed body having mercury inside and fire at the bottom. It had two resplendent wings, and is propelled by air. It flies in the atmospheric regions for a great distance and carries several persons along with it. The inside construction resembles heaven created by Brahma himself. Iron, copper, lead and other metals are also used for these machines. All these show how far art and science was developed in ancient India in this direction. Such elaborate description ought to meet the criticism that the vimanas and similar aerial vehicles mentioned in ancient Indian literature should beThe pilot is one who knows the secrets"
Bodhaanada: Scientists say that there are 32 secrets of the working of the Vimaana. A pilot should acquaint himself thoroughly with them before he can be deemed competent to handle the aeroplane. He must know the structure of the aeroplane, know the means of its take off and ascent to the sky, know how to drive it and how to halt it when necessary, how to maneuver it and make it perform spectacular feats in the sky without crashing. Those secrets are given in "Rahashya Lahari" and other works by Lalla and other masters, are are described thus:
"The pilot should have had training in maantrica and taantrica, kritaka and antaraalaka, goodha or hidden, drishya and adrishya or seen and unseen, paroksha and aparoksha, contraction and expansion, changing shape, look frightening, look pleasing, become luminous or enveloped in darkness, deluge or pralaya, vimukha, taara, stun by thunderstorm din, jump, move zig-zag like serpent, chaapala, face all sides, hear distant sounds, take pictures, know enemy maneuver, know direction of enemy approach, stabdhaka or paralyse, and karshana or exercise magnetic pull.
These 32 secrets the pilot should learn from competent preceptors and only such a person is fit to be entrusted with an aeroplane, and not others.
Some of these secrets are:
1. Goodha: As explained in 'Vaayutatva-Prakarana', by harnessing the powers, Yaasaa, Viyaasaa, Prayaasaa in the 8th atmospheric layer covering the earth, to attract the dark content of the solar ray, and use it to hide the Vimana from the enemy.
2. Drishya: By collision of the electric power and wind power in the atmosphere, a glow is created, whose reflection is to be caught in the Vishwa-Kriya-drapana or mirror at the front of the Vimana, and by its manipulation produce a Maaya-Vimana or camouflaged Vimana.
3. Vimukha: As mentioned in "Rig-hridaya", by projecting the force of Kubera, Vimukha and Vyshawaanara poison powder through the third tube of the roudree mirror and turning the switch of the air mechanism, produce wholesale insensibility and coma.
4. Roopaakarshana: By means of the photographic yantra in the Vimana to obtain a television view of things inside an enemy's plane.
5. Stabdhak: By projecting apasmaara poison fume smoke through the tube on the north side on the Vimana, and discharging it with stambhana yantra, people in enemy planes will be made unconscious.
6. Chaapla: On sighting an enemy plane, by turning the switch in the force center in the middle section of the Vimana, a 4087 revolutions an hour atmospheric wave speed will be generated, and shake up the enemy plane.
7. Parashabda Graahaka: As explained in the "Sowdaaminee Kalaa: or science of electronics, by means of the sound capturing yantra in the Vimana, to hear the talks and sound in enemy planes flying in the sky.
****
According to Shownaka, the regions of the sky are 5, named, Rekhaapathaha, Mandala, Kakshaya, shakti and Kendra. In these 5 atmospheric regions, ther are 5,19,800 air ways traversed by Vimanas of the Seven Lokas or worlds, known as Bhooloka, Bhuvarloka, Suvarloka, Maholoka, Janoloka, Tapoloka and Satyaloka. Dhundinaatha and "Valalmeeki Ganita" state that Rekha has 7,03,00,800 air routes. Mandala has 20,08,00200 air routes, Kakshya has 2,09,00,300 air routes, Shakti has 10,01,300 air routes, and Kendra has 30,08,200 air routes.
It discusses what kind of food to eat, clothing to wear, metals for vimanas, purification of metals, deals with mirrors and lenses which are required to be installed in the vimaanas, mechanical contrivances or yantras and protecting and different types of vimaanas.
The Mahabharata describes "two storey sky chariots with many windows, ejecting red flame, that race up into the sky until they look like comets . . . to the regions of both the sun and the stars."
Other references speak of:
* Pushan sailing in golden ships across the ocean of the sky
* Garuda (a celestial bird) carrying Lord Vishnu in cosmic journeys
* Aerial flights "through the region of the sky firmament which is above the region of the winds"
The Ancients of Space Dimensions.
Aircraft in the Vedic literature are generally referred to as Vimanas. Especially throughout the Mahabharata, Bhagavata Purana, and the Ramayana, these flying devices appear.
The Vimanas described in the Vedas are generally of four types:
Single or two-passenger aircraft;
Huge airships for interplanetary pleasure trips;
Huge military aircraft for warfare;
Self-sufficient flying cities (space stations) for indefinite stay in space.
The third canto of the Bhagavata Purana presents a lengthy account of the yogi Kardama Munis aeronautical adventures. With his mystic power, he produced an aerial-mansion type of vimana and took his wife Devahut on a pleasure tour of the universe. His airship was virtually a flying palace, replete with every possible luxury.
He traveled in that way through the various planets, as the air passes uncontrolled in every direction. Coursing through the air in that great and splendid aerial mansion, which could fly at his will, he surpassed even the demigods. (Shri Bhaagavatam 3.21.41).
The Vedic epic of Ramayana provides details of a majestic aerial mansion vimana.
Hanuman saw in the middle of that residential quarter the great aerial-mansion vehicle called Pushpaka-vimana, decorated with pearls and diamonds, and featured with artistic windows made of refined gold.
It was a very big machine, almost like a big city, and it could fly so high and at such a great speed that it was almost impossible to see
***
" None could gauge its power nor effect its destruction .it was poised in the atmosphere without support. It had the capacity to go anywhere. It stood in the sky like a milestone in the path of the sun. It could fly in any direction that one wanted. It had chambers of remarkable beauty Knowing the intentions of the master, it could go anywhere at high speed.
In both the Mahabharata and the Bhagavata Purana, we get an account of a huge military aircraft belonging to a hostile enemy named Shalva. The parallels with modern UFO reports are inescapable. Here is a summary of the Vedic version:
It was a very big machine, almost like a big city, and it could fly so high and at such a great speed that it was almost impossible to see; so there was no question of attacking it. It appeared to be almost covered in darkness, yet the pilot could fly it anywhere and everywhere. Having acquired such a wonderful airplane, Shalva flew it to the city of Dwaraka because his main purpose in obtaining the airplane was to attack the city of the Yadus, toward whom he maintained a constant feeling of animosity.
The airplane occupied by Shalva was very mysterious. It was so extraordinary that sometimes many airplanes would appear to be in the sky, and sometimes there were apparently none. Sometimes the plane was visible and sometimes not visible, and the warriors of the Yadu dynasty were puzzled about the whereabouts of the peculiar airplane. Sometimes they would see the airplane on the ground, sometimes flying in the sky, sometimes resting on the peak of a hill, and sometimes floating on the water. The wonderful airplane flew in the sky like a whirling firebrand it was not steady even for a moment.
