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!

Ram setu discovered by NASA

NASA has taken images from space which reveal a mysterious ancient bridge in the Palk Strait between India and Sri Lanka. The bridge currently named as Adam´s Bridge is made of chain of shoals, c.18 mi (30 km) long.

NASA has stated on its website that the bridge´s unique curvature and composition by age suggests that it may be man made. The legends as well as Archeological studies reveal that the first signs of human inhabitants in Sri Lanka date back to the primitive age, about 1,750,000 years ago.

This information is a crucial aspect for an insight into the mysterious legend called Ramayana, which was supposed to have taken place in Treta Yuga (more than 1,700,000 years ago).

In this epic, there is a mentioning about a bridge, which was built between Rameshwaram (India) and Srilankan coast under the supervision of a dynamic and invincible figure called Rama who is supposed to be the incarnation of the supreme. The bridge known as 'Ram Setu' was used to transport the monkey army of Rama to Lanka.

This information may not be of much importance to the archeologists who are interested in exploring the origins of man, but it is sure to open the spiritual gates of the people of the world to have come to know an ancient history linked to the Indian mythology. It may also reveal the secret as to how such a long bridge over the Ocean was created in what is supposed to be Primitive times compared to the present.













Picture taken of stones kept in a temple at Ahmedabad in Gujarat. These stones weigh more than 2.5 kg but still float on water and have been supposedly a part of 'Ram Setu'.

Atomic explosions

A translation from the Mahabharat :

"...(the weapon was) 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 splendor...

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..."

It would seem that the Mahabharata is describing an atomic war! The description is almost similar to a nuclear explosion and its after-effects. References like this one are not isolated; but battles, using a fantastic array of weapons and aerial vehicles are common in many of the epic Indian books.