Ancient Indian Spacecraft

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Ancient Indian Spacecraft

And Aircraft Technology

By The Hindu Staff Reporter

1-6-5

 

TIRUPATI --'India had a treasure trove of hitech warfare technology

that even the 'mighty West' does not possess. The Brahmastra and

Vimana used in the pre-Mahabharata period are nothing but the

earlier versions of today's nuclear weapons and spacecraft.'

 

It is this feeling that one would get after listening to a lecture

on 'High Technology in Ancient Sanskrit Literature' by Mr. C. S. R.

Prabhu, senior scientist, NIC, Hyderabad, on Thursday as part of the

three- day Indo-Nepal Sanskrit Conference, currently underway at the

Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha here.

 

Mr. Prabhu, quoting extensively from ancient texts, stressed that

the pre-Mahabharata period was an age of high technology, which was

ignored in the Medieval period due to reasons not known.

 

He quoted from the texts of a great scholar, Subbaraya Sastry, who,

in a state of yogic trance, is said to have orally dictated the

spacecraft technology in a period somewhere between 1875 and 1919,

which was recorded by his disciples. The text, a copy of which is

still in Nepal's Royal Library, contained technical details on

assembling, fabricating and erecting a spacecraft, the metals, semi-

conductors, advanced alloys used and other minute aeronautical

information. Though quite difficult to be believed on the face of

it, the fact that this technology did not exist anywhere in the

world - not even in America and Europe - in the mentioned period,

makes it hard for one to disbelieve.

 

 

 

 

Artwork by James Neff

 

 

The technical information given in Sastry's texts was as minute,

precise and clear, as if it were a 'Make your own spacecraft' or

a 'Spacecraft technology in 30 days' except for the Sanskrit

language used, which was very much archaic and obsolete, Mr. Prabhu

said. On a tip on making an alloy, the text said 'Krishnaseesam

Chanjanikam Vajrathundam samamsathaha' from which the real meaning

of 'Vajrathundam' (used in that context), could not be found in any

contemporary Sanskrit dictionary. ''After a great amount of

interaction with ayurvedic specialists and Swamijis with intuitive

interpretations, it turned out to be the cactus plant,'' he said.

 

To further strengthen his claim, he said there were wall paintings

in some forts in Rajasthan depicting the use of rockets in Mughal

warfare and even by Tipu Sultan of Mysore. Another interesting fact

he gave was that the spacecraft could become invisible on its own.

The lead alloy (Thamogarbha loha) used in making the body of the

spacecraft would absorb light around it in a photo chemical reaction

that would make it disappear.

 

On testing the Krishna seesa metal mentioned in the formula in the

laboratory of Birla Institute of Science, Hyderabad, Mr. Prabhu

found the metal absorbing 78 per cent of laser light, which means,

any other light could be easily absorbed, giving ample proof that

there existed a technology to make things invisible. Also the use of

an alloy of copper, zinc and lead made the spacecraft's body resist

corrosion by 1000 times over that of the current levels. Using

Ararakamra material for the axle and wheels had made it possible for

taking 'U' turns and serpentine movements.

 

An astonishing fact is that the Ararakamra metal was an alloy of

copper, zinc, lead and iron, the combination of which is impossible,

according to modern metallurgy. Technically, the ''Young's modulus''

of this metal is said to be higher than that of steel, making it

stronger. As the spacecraft had to be capable of resisting high

temperature, on re- entering our atmosphere from the outer space,

its body was made with a metal called 'Raja Loha'. Its special

feature was that apart from resisting heat, it converted light from

lightnings into energy. To crosscheck all these details, there were

no furnaces available in Hyderabad to melt metals at a high

temperature of 2500 degrees celcius, Mr. Prabhu lamented.

 

Another hitch came into his research in the form of the 'energy'

used. 'Though the texts explained that the spacecraft was propelled

by 'Sourasakthi', modern solar technology does not generate so much

power to drag a rocket', he pointed out. Later he found out to his

bewilderment that it was a kind of 'nuclear power' that was used in

those days. 'The solar power, when coupled with gamma rays produced

nuclear energy that had the power to propel a rocket', Mr. Prabhu

observed.

 

He even spoke on 'Tripura Vimana' that was used to travel in space,

water and on land, by using the metal 'Trinetra loha'. Mr. Prabhu

said he had submitted the model and some more information on

the 'super metal' to the Indian Metal Society Conference and further

claimed that the advisor to the government on scientific affairs Dr.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam too had asked him to bring the design of the

plane.

 

A committee which was appointed by Indian Institute of Science to

investigate into it, declared Sastry's texts as 'fraud', but Mr.

Prabhu reasons that the descriptions mentioned in the ancient texts

were perhaps too advanced to believe, making the committee to

hastily come to the conclusion. He wanted a national level effort to

prove that the so called 'myths' were in fact, scientific formulae

on advanced technology. He said he had proposed a project

called 'Bharadwaja Institute of Vedic Science and Technology', the

objective of which was to derive, decipher and reproduce advanced

methodologies and processes from Vedic and post-Vedic Sanskrit

texts, for which he sought government's support.

 

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