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Amazing Interplanetary Aerial Roots  

It is in the Mahabharata that, the sage Vyasa describes about Bhima who “flew with his vimana on an enormous ray which was as brilliant as the sun and made a noise like the thunder of a storm”. And in the same great ancient Indian epic we also hear about the great warrior Arjuna’s ascent to Indra’s heaven in a car that travels upwards to the clouds with a noise like thunder. Whilst travelling to heaven Arjuna apparently also sees flying cars that have crashed and are out of action and other flying cars that are stationary, whilst others fly freely in the air. 

 Behind the veil of legends the scientific truth comes out on three flying-cities. Of these three, one was in a stationary orbit in the sky, another moving in the sky and one was permanently stationed in the ground. These were docked like modern spaceships in the sky at particular time and at fixed latitude/ longitudes.

Gurkha , flying in his swift and powerful Vimana, hurled against the three cities of the Vrishnis and Andhaka’s a single projectile charged with all the power of the Universe. An incandescent column of smoke and flame as bright as the thousand suns rose in all its splendour... An iron thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death, which reduced to ashes the entire race of the Vrishnis and the Andhakas.... The corpses were so burned as to be unrecognizable. The hair and nails fell out; pottery broke without apparent cause, and the birds turned white....After a few hours all foodstuffs were infected.... To escape from this fire, the soldiers threw themselves in streams to wash themselves and their equipment...

Cuka , flying on board a high-powered Vimana, hurled on to the triple city a single projectile charged with all the power of the universe. An incandescent column of smoke and flame, as bright as ten thousand suns, rose in all the splendour... When the Vimana returned to Earth, it looked like a splendid block of antimony resting on the ground."

References to other intriguing flying machines also appear in Srimad-Bhagavatam.  In its Sixth Canto, Part 3 "The arrows released by Lord Siva appeared like fiery beams emanating from the sun globe and covered the three residential airplanes, which could then no longer be seen.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in"><span lang="EN-IN" style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">According to ancient Indian texts, 'The Seven Rishi Cities' had flying machines which were called 'Vimanas' that were describes as a double- deck, circular aircraft with portholes and a dome, much as we would imagine a flying saucer. It flew with the "speed of the wind" and gave forth a 'melodious sound'. There were at least four different types of Vimanas; some saucer shaped and others like long cylinders ('cigar shaped airships'). <span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">

<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in"><span lang="EN-IN" style="background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">According to the Dronaparva, part of the Mahabharata, and the Ramayana, one Vimana described was shaped like a sphere and born along at great speed on a mighty wind generated by mercury. It moved like a UFO, going up, down, backwards and forwards as the pilot desired. These vehicles themselves were made of special heat absorbing metals called 'Somaka, Soundalike and Mourthwika'

<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in"><span lang="EN-IN" style="background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">In another Indian source, the Samar, Vimanas were 'iron machines, well-knit and smooth, with a charge of mercury that shot out of the back in the form of a roaring flame'. Another work called the Samaranganasutradhara describes how the vehicles were constructed. It is possible that mercury did have something to do with the propulsion, or more possibly, with the guidance system.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in"><span lang="EN-IN" style="background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">The specific manuscript on aeronautics included plans for three types of Vimanas (aircraft), the Rukma, Sundara, and Shakuna. Five hundred stanzas of an ancient text treat of such intricate details as the choice and preparation of metals which would be suitable for various parts of Vimanas of different types. There were eight chapters...that provided plans for the construction of aircraft that flew in the air, travelled under water, or floated pontoon-like on the water's surface. Some stanzas told of the qualifications and training of pilots.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in"><span lang="EN-IN" style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">The more typical Vimanas had flight characteristics resembling those reported for UFOs, and the being associated with them were said to possess powers similar to those presently ascribed to UFO entities. An interesting example of a vimana is the flying machine which Salva, an ancient Indian king, acquired from Maya Danava, an inhabitant of a planetary system called Talatala. The cruel Salva had come mounted on the Saubha chariot that can go anywhere, and from it he killed many valiant Vrishni youths and evilly devastated all the city parks. <span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;"> <span lang="EN-IN" style="background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">Salva's vehicle is described as an iron city, and thus it must have been metallic in appearance and quite large....Many Vedic Vimanas are described as flying cities, and one is reminded of the very large 'mother-ships' that are sometimes discussed in UFO reports. <span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;"> <span lang="EN-IN" style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">Sivkishen, Author