Based on a book previously presented in India, the Hindus laid the foundations of aviation, interplanetary flights, thousands of years before the Wright brothers.

The work was presented by Nand Weddings and Ameya Jadhav during a scientific conference organized by the University of Mumbai in India. The above concluded that the aviation system was much more developed in the distant past than in the present world. At least that's how the Maharshi Bharadwaja saga describes thousands of years ago. Bharadwaja is one of the most famous Hindu texts.

Sanskrit text Vaimanika Sastra aviation says that vimana / vimanas were developed aerodynamic flying machines similar to missiles capable of interplanetary flights.

These texts were rediscovered and translated in 1952 by GR Josy. They contain 3000 verses divided into 8 chapters. According to Kanjilal (1985), they state, inter alia, that vimana was driven by mercury vortex engines. (According to other sources, mercury may not be an exact translation, as the text speaks of a shiny liquid substance that has similar properties to metal. Mercury is offered, but we do not know for sure.) Power was also part of the drive.

The authors state that the saga Maharishi Bharadwaj should describe more than 7000 years old a flying machine capable of flying between states, continents and planets. Vice-Chancellor of Mumbai University, Rajan Welukar, said: There is no reason to believe what they say about the Vedas, but it is something worth exploring and studying.

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Although there are many studies trying to demonstrate that these ancient machines were not capable of flying, there are still many scientists and scholars who believe that the texts quoted are manual (or technical drawing descriptions) of highly technologically advanced flying machines.

The Indian Institute of Science (Bangalore) published an article in 1974 stating that the heavier-than-air planes described by Vaimanika Shastra were aeronautically impractical.

V Mumbai Mirror Mr Boda is quoted as saying that "modern science is unscientific" because it declares things it does not understand and do not understand. He is quoted below (or rather his translation of the texts): “The Vedic texts, or rather the ancient Indian texts, describe the vehicle as a machine capable of flying from one country to another, from one continent to another, and from one planet to another. The machines of that time were able to change direction in any direction (in the sense of making sharp changes of direction), unlike our current modern machines, which can only fly forward. "

Comment under article: The question of the possibility or impossibility of the existence of aircraft of such vimanas design mentioned in ancient Vedic texts must be answered in the context of the conditions, composition and air content at the time. It is quite likely that they were different from today.

Conclusion: According to some experts (see Ancienit Alines series), the Vedic texts may not be an authentic description of the events, but also transcripts of much older texts. It is also a question of whether the original authors of the texts were so well-funded engineers of their timeto be able to describe all the technological details. Or whether it was just an observer - just a helper or just a passive user who tried to describe a lot of complicated machines for them.

Much of the meaning of the text is likely to be lost in the translations. We miss the view and context of the man of that time a lot. The key weakness is our ignorance of the technology at the time, which was obviously different in its physical principles.