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SUBJECT: Ancient Indian Aircraft Technology FILE: UFO2385
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by D. Hatcher Childress
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from The Anti-Gravity Handbook avaliable from:
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Adventures Unlimited Press
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Post Office Box 22
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Stelle, IL, USA 60919-9989
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(815) 253-6390, Write for their FREE catalog.
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Many researchers into the UFO enigma tend to overlook a very
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important fact. While it assumed that most flying saucers are of
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alien, or perhaps Governmental Military origin, another possible
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origin of UFOs is ancient India and Atlantis.
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What we know about ancient Indian flying vehicles comes from
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ancient Indian sources; written texts that have come down to us
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through the centuries. There is no doubt that most of these texts are
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authentic; many are the well known ancient Indian Epics themselves,
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and there are literally hundreds of them. Most of them have not even
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been translated into English yet from the old sanskrit.
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The Indian Emperor Ashoka started a "Secret Society of the Nine
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Unknown Men": great Indian scientists who were supposed to catalogue
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the many sciences. Ashoka kept their work secret because he was
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afraid that the advanced science catalogued by these men, culled from
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ancient Indian sources, would be used for the evil purpose of war,
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which Ashoka was strongly against, having been converted to Buddhism
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after defeating a rival army in a bloody battle.
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The "Nine Unknown Men" wrote a total of nine books, presumably
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one each. Book number was "The Secrets of Gravitation!" This book,
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known to historians, but not actually seen by them dealt chiefly with
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"gravity control." It is presumably still around somewhere, kept in a
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secret library in India, Tibet or elsewhere (perhaps even in North
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America somewhere). One can certainly undertand Ashoka's reasoning
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for wanting to keep such knowledge a secret, assuming it exists. if
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the Nazis had such weapons at their disposal during World War Ii.
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Ashoka was also aware devastating wars using such advanced vehicles
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and other "futuristic weapons" that had destoryed the ancient Indian
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"Rama Empire" several thousand years before.
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Only a few years ago, the Chinese discovered some sanskrit
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documents in Lhasa, Tibet and sent them to the University of
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Chandrigarh to be translated. Dr. Ruth Reyna of the University said
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recently that the documents contain directions for building
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interstellar spaceships!
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Their method of propulsion, she said, was "anti-gravitational"
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and was based upon a system analogous to that of "laghima," the
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unknown power of the ego existing in man's physiological makeup, "a
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centrifugal force strong enough to counteract all gravitational pull."
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According to Hindu Yogis, it is this "laghima" which enables a person
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to levitate.
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Dr. Reyna said that on board these machines, which were called
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"Astras" by the text, the ancient Indians could have sent a detachment
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of men onto any planet, according to the document, which is thought to
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be thousands of years old. The manuscripts were also said to reveal
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the secret of "antima"; "the cap of invisibility" and "garima"; "how
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to become as heavy as a mountain of lead."
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Naturally, Indian scientists did not take the texts very
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seriously, but then became more positive about the value of them when
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the Chinese announced that they were including certain parts of the
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data for study in their space program! This was one of the first
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instances of a government admitting to be researching anti-gravity.
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The manuscripts did not say definitely that interplanetary travel
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was ever made but did mention, of all things, a planned trip to the
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Moon, though it is not clear whether this trip was actually carried
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out. However, one of the great Indian epics, the Ramayana, does have
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a highly detailed story in it of a trip to the moon in a Vimana (or
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"Astra"), and in fact details a battle on the moon with an "Asvin" (or
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"Atlantean") airship.
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This is but a small bit of recent evidence of anti-gravity and
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aerospace technology used by Indians. To really understand the
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technology, we must go much further back in time.
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The so-called "Rama Empire" of Northern India and Pakistan
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developed at least fifteen thousand years ago on the Indian
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sub-continent and was a nation of many large, sophisticated cities,
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many of which are still to be found in the deserts of Pakistan,
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northern, and western India. Rama existed, apparently, parallel to
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the Atlantean civilization in the mid-Atlantic Ocean, and was ruled by
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"enlightened Priest-Kings" who governed the cities, The seven greatest
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capital cities of Rama were known in classical Hindu texts as "The
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Seven Rishi Cities."
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According to ancient Indian texts, the people had flying machines
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which were called "Vimanas." The ancient Indian epic describes a
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Vimana as a double-deck, circular aircraft with portholes and a dome,
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much as we would imagine a flying saucer.
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It flew with the "speed of the wind" and gave forth a "melodious
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sound." There were at least four different types of Vimanas; some
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saucer shaped, others like long cylinders ("cigar shaped airships").
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The ancient Indian texts on Vimanas are so numerous, it would take
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volumes to relate what they had to say. The ancient Indians, who
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manufactured these ships themselves, wrote entire flight manuals on
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the control of the various types of Vimanas, many of which are still
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in existence, and some have even been translated into English.
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The Samara Sutradhara is a scientific treatise dealing with every
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possible angle of air travel in a Vimana. There are 230 stanzas
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dealing with the construction, take-off, cruising for thousand of
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miles, normal and forced landings, and even possible collisions with
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birds. In 1875, the Vaimanika Sastra, a fourth century B.C. text
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written by Bharadvajy the Wise, using even older texts as his source,
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was rediscovered in a temple in India. It dealt with the operation of
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Vimanas and included information on the steering, precautions for long
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flights, protection of the airships from storms and lightening and how
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to switch the drive to "solar energy" from a free energy source which
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sounds like "anti-gravity."
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The Vaimanika Sastra (or Vymaanika-Shaastra) has eight chapters
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with diagrams, describing three types of aircraft, including
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apparatuses that could neither catch on fire nor break. It also
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mentions 31 essential parts of these vehicles and 16 materials from
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which they are constructed, which absorb light and heat; for which
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reason they were considered suitable for the construction of Vimanas.
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This document has been translated into English and is available by
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writing the publisher: VYMAANIDASHAASTRA AERONAUTICS by Maharishi
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Bharadwaaja, translated into English and edited, printed and published
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by Mr. G. R. Josyer, Mysore, India, 1979 (sorry, no street address).
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Mr. Josyer is the director of the International Academy of Sanskrit
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Investigation located in Mysore.
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There seems to be no doubt that Vimanas were powered by some sort
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of "anti-gravity." Vimanas took off vertically, and were capable of
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hovering in the sky, like a modern helicopter or dirigible.
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Bharadvajy the Wise refers to no less than 70 authorities and 10
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experts of air travel in antiquity. These sources are now lost.
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Vimanas were kept in a Vimana Griha, a kind of hanger, and were
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sometimes said to be propelled by a yellowish-white liquid, and
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sometimes by some sort of mercury compound, though writers seem
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confused in this matter. It is most likely that the later writers on
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Vimanas, wrote as observers and from earlier texts, and were
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understandably confused on the princible of their propulsion. The
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"yellowishwhite liquid" sounds suspiciously like gasoline, and perhaps
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Vimanas had a number of different propulsion sources, including
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combustion engines and even "pulse-jet" engines. It is interesting to
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note, that the Nazis developed the first practical pulse-jet engines
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for their V-8 rocket "buzz bombs." Hitler and the Nazi staff were
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exceptionally interested in ancient India and Tibet and sent
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expeditions to both these places yearly, starting in the 30's, in
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order to gather esoteric evidence that they did so, and perhaps it was
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from these people that the Nazis gained some of their scientific
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information!
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According to the Dronaparva, part of the Mahabarata, and the
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Ramayana, one Vimana described was shaped like a sphere and born along
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at great speed on a mighty wind generated by mercury. It moved like a
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UFO, going up, down, backwards and forewards as the pilot desired. In
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another Indian source, the Samar, Vimanas were "iron machines,
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well-knit and smooth, with a charge of mercury that shot out of the
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back in the form of a roaring flame." Another work called the
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Samaranganasutradhara describes how the vehicles were constructed. It
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is possible that mercury did have something to do with the propulsion,
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or more possibly, with the guidance system. Curiously, Soviet
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scientists have discovered what they call "age-old instruments used in
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navigating cosmic vehicles" in caves in Turkestan and the Gobi Desert.
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The "devices" are hemispherical objects of glass or porcelain, ending
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in a cone with a drop of mercury inside.
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It is evident that ancient Indians flew around in these vehicles,
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all over Asia, to Atlantis presumably; and even, apparently, to South
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America. Writing found at Mohenjodaro in Pakistan (presumed to be one
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of the "Seven Rishi Cities of the Rama Empire") and still
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undeciphered, has also been found in one other place in the world:
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Easter Island! Writing on Easter Island, called Rongo-Rongo writing,
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is also undeciphered, and is uncannily similar to the Mohenjodaro
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script. Was Easter Island an air base for the Rama Empire's Vimana
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route? (At the Mohenjo-Daro Vimana-drome, as the passenger walks down
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the concourse, he hears the sweet, melodic sound of the announcer over
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the loudspeaker,
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"Rama Airways flight number seven for Bali, Easter Island, Nazca, and
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Atlantis is now ready for boarding. Passengers please proceed to
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gate number..") in Tibet, no small distance, and speaks of the "fiery
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chariot" thusly: "Bhima flew along in his car, resplendent as the
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sun and loud as thunder... The flying chariot shone like a flame in
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the night sky of summer ... it swept by like a comet... It was as if
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two suns were shining. Then the chariot rose up and all the heaven
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brightened."
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In the Mahavira of Bhavabhuti, a Jain text of the eighth century
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culled from older texts and traditions, we read: "An aerial chariot,
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the Pushpaka, conveys many people to the capital of Ayodhya. The sky
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is full of stupendous flying-machines, dark as night, but picked out
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by lights with a yellowish glare"
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The Vedas, ancient Hindu poems, thought to be the oldest of all
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the Indian texts, describe Vimanas of various shapes and sizes: the
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"ahnihotra-vimana" with two engines, the "elephant-vimana" with more
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engines, and other types named after the kingfisher, ibis and other
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animals.
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Unfortunately, Vimanas, like most scientific discoveries, were
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ultimately used for war. Atlanteans used their flying machines,
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"Vailixi," a similar type of aircraft, to literally try and subjugate
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the world, it would seem, if Indian texts are to be believed. The
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Atlanteans, known as "Asvins" in the Indian writings, were apparently
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even more advanced technologically than the Indians, and certainly of
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a more war-like temperment. Although no ancient texts on Atlantean
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Vailixi are known to exist, some information haas come down through
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esoteric, "occult" sources which describe their flying machines.
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Similar, if not identical to Vimanas, Vailixi were generally "cigar
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shaped" and had the capability of manuvering underwater as well as in
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the atmosphere or even outer space. Other vehicles, like Vimanas,
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were saucer shaped, and could apparently also be submerged.
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According to Eklal Kueshana, author of "The Ultimate Frontier,"
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in an article he wrote in 1966, Vailixi were first developed in
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Atlantis 20,000 years ago, and the most common ones are "saucershaped
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of generally trapezoidal cross-section with three hemispherical engine
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pods on the underside." "They use a mechanical antigravity device
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driven by engines developing approximately 80,000 horse power."
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The Ramayana, Mahabarata and other texts speak of the hideous war
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that took place, some ten or twelve thousand years ago between
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Atlantis and Rama using weapons of destruction that could not be
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imagined by readers until the second half of this century.
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The ancient Mahabharata, one of the sources on Vimanas, goes on
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to tell the awesome destructiveness of the war: "...(the weapon was) a
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single projectile charged with all the power of the Universe. An
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incandescent column of smoke and flame As bright as the thousand suns
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rose in all its splendor... An iron thunderbolt,
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A gigantic messenger of death,
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Which reduced to ashes
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The entire race of the Vrishnis
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And the Andhakas.
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the corpses were so burned
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As to be unrecognizable.
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The hair and nails fell out;
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Pottery broke without apparent cause,
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And the birds turned white.
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After a few hours
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All foodstuffs were infected...
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to escape from this fire
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The soldiers threw themselves in streams
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To wash themselves and their equipment..."
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It would seem that the Mahabharata is describing an atomic war!
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References like this one are not isolated; but battles, using a
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fantastic array of weapons and aerial vehicles are common in all the
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epic Indian books. One even describes a Vimana-Vailix battle on the
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Moon! The above section very accurately describes what an atomic
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explosion would look like and the effects of the radioactivity on the
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population. Jumping into water is the only respite.
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When the Rishi City of Mohenjodaro was excavated by archeologists
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in the last century, they found skeletons just lying in the streets,
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some of them holding hands, as if some great doom had suddenly
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overtaken them. These skeletons are among the most radioactive ever
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found, on a par with those found at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Ancient
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cities whose brick and stone walls have literaly been vitrified, that
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is-fused together, can be found in India, Ireland, Scotland, France,
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Turkey and other places. There is no logical explanation for the
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vitrification of stone forts and cities, except from an atomic blast.
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Futhermore, at Mohenjo-Daro, a well planned city laid on a grid, with
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a plumbing system superior to those used in Pakistan and India today,
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the streets were littered with "black lumps of glass." These globs of
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glass were discovered to be clay pots that had melted under intense
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heat!
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With the cataclysmic sinking of Atlantis and the wiping out of
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Rama with atomic weapons, the world collapsed into a "stone age" of
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sorts, and modern history picks up a few thousand years later. Yet,
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it would seem that not all the Vimanas and Vailixi of Rama and
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Atlantis were gone. Built to last for thousands of of years, many of
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them would still be in use, as evidenced by Ashoka's "Nine Unknown
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Men" and the Lhasa manuscript.
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That secret societies or "Brotherhoods" of exceptional,
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"enlightened" human beings would have preserved these inventions and
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the knowledge of science, history, etc., does not seem surprising.
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Many well known historical personages including Jesus, Buddah, Lao
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Tzu, Confucious, Krishna, Zoroaster, Mahavira, Quetzalcoatl,
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Akhenaton, Moses, and more recent inventors and of course many other
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people who will probably remain anonomous, were probably members of
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such a secret organization.
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It is interesting too note that when Alexander the Great invaded
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India more than two thousand years ago, his historians chronicled that
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at one point they were attacked by "flying, fiery shields" that dove
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at his army and frightened the cavalry. These "flying saucers" did not
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use any atomic bombs or beam weapons on Alexander's army however,
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perhaps out of benevolence, and Alexander went on to conquer India.
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It has been suggested by many writers that these "Brotherhoods" keep
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some of their Vimanas and Vailixi in secret caverns in Tibet or some
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other place is Central Asia, and the Lop Nor Desert in western China
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is known to be the center of a great UFO mystery. Perhaps it is here
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that many of the airships are still kept, in underground bases much as
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the Americans, British and Soviets have built around the world in the
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past few decades.
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Still, not all UFO activity can be accounted for by old Vimanas
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making trips to the Moon for some reason. Undoubtedly, some are from
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the Military Governments of the world, and possibly even from other
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planets. Of course, many UFO sightings are "swamp, gas, clouds,
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hoaxes, and hallucinations, while there is considerable evidence that
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many UFO sightings, especially "kidnappings" and the like, are the
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result of what is generally called "telepathic hypnosis." One common
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thread that often runs between "Alien kidnappings," "sex with aliens,"
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and other "close encounters of a third kind" is a buzzing in the ears
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just before the encounter. According to many well informed people,
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this is a sure sign of telepathic hypnosis."
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(End)
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