There is another ancient collection of sacred Hindu books called the ‘Samaranga Sutradhara’
that contain at least 200 passages concerning almost every conceivable aspect of flying and the
amazing descriptions in the narrative abundantly demonstrate that the authors of the work had a
very detailed knowledge of aviation, mechanics and equipment that comes very close to what we
know today. Author and self-taught Archeologist, David Hatcher-Childress has written some
excellent books discussing these texts and I highly recommend anyone with an interest in the
topic to obtain and read them. (See: ’sources’ at the close of this book.) These texts call the
ancient flying machines ‘Vimana’s.
They describe the craft as having "carefully welded joints", and as being powered "by
controlled fire from the iron containers" that were like "the roar of a lion” that would set the
Vimana in motion so that "the traveler sitting inside the Vimana may travel in the air, to such a
distance as to look like a pearl in the sky" This description sounds remarkably like modern jet
powered planes, even very adequately describing the noise that they make. One chapter describes
a complicated process for smelting and refining mica telling us that the process: “will yield a
metal shining like a precious stone, very light, unbreakable, unburnable and indestructible.”
In fact the entire Vymaanika-Shaastra reads more like a flight school manual than mythology!
It’s hard to imagine any reason for including such things in religious texts, for they tell no story,
convey no message and have no moral or meaning. They only serve to describe the technical
details of flying craft and their related topics.
As an example, both in the Vymaanika-Shaastra and in a book called ‘the Yantra Sarvasva,’
Vimana are described as being of 3 classes: Those that travel from place to place. Those that
travel from country to country. And those that travel from planet to planet. The texts are also
greatly concerned with military vimana recording them as having special requirements which
they state quite categorically. According to these ancient texts, such military craft needed to be:
- Impregnable, unbreakable, non-combustible and indestructible.
- Capable of coming to a dead stop in the blink of an eye.
- Invisible to enemies
- Able to listen to the conversations and sounds in hostile Vimanas
- Able to see and record things, persons, incidents and situations inside hostile Vimanas.
- Able to know the directions and movements of other Vimama in the area at all times.
- Capable of rendering the crew of a hostile Vimana into a state of suspended animation,
mental stupor or complete unconscious. - Capable of destruction
- Manned by pilots and travelers who can easily adapt themselves to the climates and
environments through which they moved. - Temperature regulated inside
- Constructed of light, heat absorbent metals.
- Equipped with mechanisms to enlarge or reduce images and enhance or diminish sounds.
Now not to completely ignore the fact that what has just been described to us sounds like some
sort of cross between a Stealth Fighter and a UFO, it seems safe to assume from these texts that
the ancient Indians actually had some pretty advanced knowledge about certain technologies.
There is very little doubt that many of these tales are quite authentic. Many of them come from
the great Indian Epics themselves and there are quite literally hundreds of them and still many
more (in fact probably most of them) that haven’t yet been translated from their original Sanskrit
Apart from the myriad of ancient texts and legends dealing with the subject ancient flight there
is also certain physical evidence to support the claim of its reality in bygone days.
Of course, we’re not talking about actual ancient flying machines as none have ever been
located nor, I imagine ever will be, but there are some other somewhat intriguing artifacts that
have been found.