The History about The Vimanas

In the Vedic literature of India, there are many descriptions of flying machines that are generally called Vimanas. India's national epic, The Mahabharata, is a poem of vast length and complexity.There are no physical remains of ancient Indian aircraft technology but references to ancient flying machines are commonplace in the ancient Indian texts. Several popular ancient epics describe their use in warfare. Depending on one's point of view, either it contains some of the earliest known science fiction, or it records conflict between beings with weapons as powerful and advanced as anything used today.

"European scholarship regards human civilization as a recent progression starting yesterday with the Fiji islander, and ending today with Rockefeller, conceiving ancient culture as necessarily half savage culture." It is a superstition of modern thought that the march of knowledge has always been linear." "Our vision of "prehistory" is terribly inadequate. We have not yet rid our minds from the hold of a one-and-only God or one-and-only Book, and now a one-and-only Science"

Shri Aurobindo Ghosh

(1872-1950)

most original philosopher of modern India

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored"

Aldous Huxley

"Dont' let your minds be cluttered up with the prevailing doctrine"

Alexander Fleming

(1881-1955)

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- Introduction

- Some Puranic Accounts of Air-Chariots

- References From Ancient Literature

- India had a Superior Civilization

- Ancient Writings tell of UFO Visit in 4,000 B.C.

- Fly the Friendly Skies in Air India Vimanas

- Flying Machines in Old Indian Sanskrit texts

- Chariots of The Gods

- Vymaanika Shaastra Aeronautics of Maharshi Bharadwaaja

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