“1908: when the first airplane went public”, the great invention was fruit of hard work and dedication towards the dream which was visualised by Wilbur Wright. Despite people’s negativity and despise for the idea , they never gave up on this project to fly one day and touch the infinites of sky by breaking all human boundaries. On december 17, 1903, the Wright brothers made their first four flights at Kitty Hawk with their first powered aircraft and with this
the journey for the better came up.
But their is a twist in the story… what if it is proved that the first flight was made by Indians and that too nearly 7000 years ago.Mentioning them, Captain Anand J. Bodas, the retired principal of a pilot training facility told the Indian Science congress in Mumbai. so , the first flight took place years ago Leonardo Da Vinci developed Aerodynamics and Wright brothers flew their first flight. But how???
A lot of us would have heard the mention of Pushpaka vimana in Ramayana, well we all refer it as a story of good vs evil. But the ones who have the power of applying logic with traditions and aesthetics can see the mention of dozens of vimanas and powerful weapons used at that time which were having a mind blowing degree of science used. Such people came up with many
evidences that these are real life incidents that took place and not any story with the help of dating methods, carbon layers, light of date etc. These proved that aircrafts and other weapons used in Indian epics are facts.
As world came up to know about these facts, curiosity poked them up to go further and to dig on the truth. And now many excavators and archaeologists have found evidences that PUSHPAKA vimana was a reality, they found its port, its technology in old scriptures, its parts which were
dated to be too old to be of this era.
Air strips were found from the time period when air travel was not even a wildest dream.
One of the oldest of Indian texts known as “Vedas” mentioned paras and hymns about chariots of god which used animals but could also fly. According to Rig veda one of the oldest indian text written in between 1700-1100 BCE specifically mentioned “mechanical birds”. It also describes
various kinds of vimanas named after birds, specialities and animals. Another translation from Rig veda verse reads as: “ The vimana jumps into space speedily with a craft using fire and water, containing 12 stamghas (pillars), one wheel, three machines, 300 pivots and 60 instruments…”
Also to mention that the powerful Pushpaka vimana did not had any wheel, gears or break or any instrument to control engine, instead that, the excellent specimen of aircraft was able to go anywhere with the help of command and concentration of the charioteer, say forward, backward, upward or in any direction just like an helicopter. Can you believe it that when scientist today are still struggling for a perfect automated car ride, India centuries ago had it on its own. Such brilliant paradigm found in ancient India which still impossible.
Discovery of some sanskrit documents in Lhasa Tibet revealed a blueprint for building a celestial spacecraft and the method of propulsion was “anti gravitational force”
Doesn’t this all sound like some kind of science fiction, where our ancestors were genius to vitalize such a dream, but does it still looks like too dramatic to believe, so let’s time travel to 1875.
In 1875 a very important discovery was done, and it was of Vaimanika shastra, a 4th century BC textbook written by Saint Bharadhwaj was found inside a temple of India. It allocated knowledge about operation of vimanas information for steering, precautions, protection, method for
switching from fuel to solar energy etc.
According to it, four main types of flying vimanas were described- Rukma, Sundra, Tripura, and Shakuna. All these four designs were miles away from designs of modern aerodynamics, no wings, no similar parts found in today’s normal aircraft.
The Rukma were dyed in gold whereas Sundara were like rockets and a silver sheen. The Tripura had three storeys and Shakuna looked birds. There were 113 subdivisions of these four main types of aircrafts with minor details.
Unfortunately other details and works about them were destroyed in constant warfare and evasions where many of our literatures and texts went missing.
Other old and new books which discuss the same are: Samarangana sutradhara, Vimana: aircraft of ancient India and Atlantis, Rig veda, Chariots of god, Technology of god.
All we can say that the world is full of stupendous tech and machines and our India was one of the oldest country to contribute our knowledge and brilliance to our world. That’s why the world called us as the “Golden bird”
But it is a shame for our generation that such iconical heritages of our country has lost its original knowledge and values due to our ignorance. All we do is blame the country for not being developed or backward while sipping our cup of tea but somewhere we did it before them. So let’s take a step forward towards sheltering and also propagating our knowledge and heritage first before anyone other does so.
Thanks for reading. 🙂
