Saturday, November 28, 2009

Ancient Indian Texts - Advanced Science embedded in Literature?

“In 1895 AD, an unmanned aircraft invented by Dr. Talpade was flown in India. This aircraft flew 1500 feet in the air and used a mercury ion engine described in a book Samaranga Sutradhara by king Bhoja. This was five years before the Wright brothers’ venture!”


Just one of the many eye openers and exciting possibility that can be discussed! While the world is starting to grasp the depth of knowledge of Vedic maths, Astrology, Cosmic sciences, Ayurveda and ancient Indian philosophies, there’s yet another arrow in our quiver: ‘Ancient Indian Technology’. Our ancient scriptures discuss some mind boggling concepts like the

  • Big Bang theory (Bhagvad Gita, Shiva Puran),
  • Gravity (Bhugoladhayay, Surya Siddhanta), and the
  • Theory of evolution (Bhagvad Purana), all at the time when the Western people were nothing more than nomadic forest dwellers!
  • The work 'Surya Siddhanta' states that the earth is a sphere along with the
  • descriptions of the motions of planets and the
  • method of calculating eclipses,
  • while the Mahabharata explains the theory of ‘Ascent of Sap’ in plants!

Some more astonishing inventions which have clues in the ancient Texts are like

  • The Iron pillar at Delhi is a standing ovation to the ancient Indian technology, as it continues resisting corrosion, something it has been doing since the last 1600 years!
  • A verse in Rig Veda states that the sunlight consists of seven colors, which become visible when the light is passed through a prism.
  • Agasthya Samhita goes on to explain the creation of a battery cell!
  • Moreover, the fantastic work, ‘Vimana Shastra’ is a compilation of works relating to aircrafts, mentioned in many of our ancient scriptures!


We can also find instances in our ancient texts about possible use of missiles, even nuclear missiles. It’s all present in our ancient scriptures, but in a coded form, in Sanskrit, a language which in itself is a fantastic invention, something we have been ignoring since many years. There is a vast source of information we can make use of, like the mercury ion engine, presently tested by NASA for use in space science. We have only to plunge deeper in these waters with some enthusiasm and trust!

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