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http://www.indiadivine.org/news/science-and-nature/a-critical-study-of-the-work-vaimanika-shastra-r625
1. Historical Aspects
1.1 ORIGIN
A book titled “Brihad Vimana Shastra” by Shri Bramhamuni Parivrajaka was published in the year 1959 [1]. It contains verses in Sanskrit (describing aircraft) with their Hindi translation.
Recently, another book titled “Vymanika Shastra” by Shri G.R. Josyer has appeared [2], which contains the same Sanskrit verses with their English translation. One notable feature of this English version is that it contains drawings of some crafts too, something not to be found in the Hindi version. Also, the English work by Josyer makes no mention whatsoever of the earlier work in Hindi.
Our main concern in this report will be with the above two works.
These books contain verses which, according to their texts, are supposed to form only part (about a fortieth) of “Yantra Sarvaswa” by sage Bharadwaja, which is devoted to a summary of the work on vimana vigyana by a number of other sages and is said to be for the benefit of all mankind.
For more reading, go to .......http://www.indiadivine.org/news/science-and-nature/a-critical-study-of-the-work-vaimanika-shastra-r625
http://www.indiadivine.org/news/science-and-nature/a-critical-study-of-the-work-vaimanika-shastra-r625
Nov 12 2013 08:12 AM | Posted by H.S. Mukunda | Science and Nature
1. Historical Aspects
1.1 ORIGIN
A book titled “Brihad Vimana Shastra” by Shri Bramhamuni Parivrajaka was published in the year 1959 [1]. It contains verses in Sanskrit (describing aircraft) with their Hindi translation.
Recently, another book titled “Vymanika Shastra” by Shri G.R. Josyer has appeared [2], which contains the same Sanskrit verses with their English translation. One notable feature of this English version is that it contains drawings of some crafts too, something not to be found in the Hindi version. Also, the English work by Josyer makes no mention whatsoever of the earlier work in Hindi.
Our main concern in this report will be with the above two works.
These books contain verses which, according to their texts, are supposed to form only part (about a fortieth) of “Yantra Sarvaswa” by sage Bharadwaja, which is devoted to a summary of the work on vimana vigyana by a number of other sages and is said to be for the benefit of all mankind.
For more reading, go to .......http://www.indiadivine.org/news/science-and-nature/a-critical-study-of-the-work-vaimanika-shastra-r625