Tag: mahabharata

VYMAANIKA-SHAASTRA AERONAUTICS – an ancient Indian manual for flying vehicles

July 25, 2025July 25, 2025 by pavroo

The Vaimānika Śāstra (वैमानिक शास्त्र, lit. “śāstra on Vimanas”; meaning “science of aviation,” sometimes translated as Vimanika, Vymanika, Vyamanika) is a 20th-century Sanskrit text. It claims that the Vimanas mentioned in ancient Sanskrit epics were advanced, aerodynamic flying vehicles. The VYMAANIKA-SHAASTRA AERONAUTICS was written by Maharshi Bharadwaaja, translated into English, and edited by G.R. Josyer, … Read more

Were ancient Indian flying vehicles powered by mercury?

June 13, 2025June 13, 2025 by pavroo

Flying vehicles in ancient India is such a vast subject that it cannot be described in a few words. Many books from ancient India contain descriptions of such vehicles, their use by ancient Gods, air combat and even construction descriptions. Today I would like to add Samarangana Sutradhara to the two most famous and popular … Read more

Weapons of the Gods in Ancient India

May 9, 2025 by pavroo

In previous posts related to the topic of ancient India, I touched on the topic of “flying cities”, the bridge of the god Rama to Sri Lanka, and atomic bombs that could have been detonated several thousand years ago. In today’s post, I would like to present several interesting weapons that the Indian Gods had, … Read more

Did people fly into space in ancient India?

April 11, 2025 by pavroo

The Mahabharata is one of the two main Hindu epic poems, found in the smryti category and one of the main works of Indian literature. Considering the Mahabharata in terms of the number of contacts between people and Gods and the number of descriptions of flying vehicles, earthly and air battles, one can assume that … Read more

Flying cities in ancient India – fairy tales or real air vehicles?

January 10, 2025May 17, 2024 by pavroo

Ancient Hindu texts, such as Mahabharata or Ramayana, in addition to the previously discussed topic of nuclear weapons, also provide very interesting descriptions of flying cities, built and operated by countless ancient Hindu Gods, thousands of years ago. This is very interesting, considering the low level of technical awareness of people living at that time, … Read more