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Mindblowing vimanas or airplanes of mahabharata
Posted By Sarin on Mar 11, 2015         Latest Hinduism news
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In preceding articles, we saw the theory on existence of airplanes in ancient

India and the earth’s first aircraft ‘Pushpak Vimana’. In this article, I will extend
this theory to include scriptural references of airplanes from world’s greatest
epic poem Mahabharata.

Mahabharata is basically a conglomeration of religious teachings, customs,

traditions, politics, moral values, history and legends, reflecting the great
heritage and heroes of ancient India. There are detailed descriptions on many
wars and weapons used in Mahabharata. Anyone reading these precise Software developer by
description of war and weapons used in Mahabharata, would easily get the profession,
impression that this is no imagination of any author and the author must have Poet by hobby,
seen these battles and all the weapons used from his own naked eyes. Even Blogger by Passion
though the technology of aircrafts and flying vehicles existed during the era of Birth Place:
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Section XLIII of Vana Parva - Years before the Mahabharata war, during his
1) Why Holi-The quest for celestial weapons, Arjuna spent some of his time on lord
Indra(surrogate father of arjuna) City ‘Amravati’. He was picked up on airplane
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“And on this sunlike, divine, wonderful chariot the wise disciple of Kuru flew
joyously upward. When becoming invisible to the mortals who walk the earth,
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he saw wondrous airborne chariots by the thousands.”
adventure than sitting
"And having beheld those celestial gardens resounding with celestial music, the
strong-armed son of Pandu entered the favorite city of Indra. And he beheld
back at home
there celestial vimanas by thousands, capable of going everywhere at will,
1) struggle till all
stationed in proper places. And he saw tens of thousands of such cars moving in
obstacles are thrown
every direction"
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Arjuna Vimana destroying space stations of demons
2) Have patience.Good
During his stay in heaven, Arjuna assisted his father ‘Indra’ in winning a few
days will come soon
battles against the dangerous asuras(Demon). Below is the short story on lord
indra’s war against the daityas(demons).
After observing extreme austerities for millenniums of years, a demon woman
called Puloma and Demon “Kalaka” were granted the boon of being impregnable
against the Devas(Gods), Rakshasas(Demons) and Nagas(Snake race). Using
his superior powers, lord brahma arranged a lovely airborne city that could not
be attacked by all powerful beings of the universe, including devas (Gods).
Hiranyapura was the name of the floating city, stationed in outer space, without
depending on any planet or physical medium for support. This city was piled up
with gold, diamonds and other precious stones that would even make the devas
and yakshas jealous.
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Knowing the treacherous intentions of demons, Lord Brahma left a loophole of
excluding humans from the list of living beings that could not attack this
airborne city.
Arjuna was half human-half Deva, lord Indra being his surrogate father. He was
gifted special celestial weapons by lord Indra to defeat armies of Hiranyapura
who were safeguarded by protective benedictions from Lord Brahma.
Below is verse on the same
"And he also gave [unto Arjuna] a car furnished with celestial weapons whose
banner bore a large ape . . . And its splendour, like that of the Sun, was so
great that no one could gaze at it. It was the very car riding upon which the lord
Soma had vanquished the Danavas. Resplendent with beauty, it looked like an
evening cloud reflecting the effulgence of the setting Sun."
Below is the verse that describes the ultra-fast airplane of indra that he used for
fighting against the daitya.
“Indra’s vimana endued with great effulgence and driven by Matali, came
dividing the clouds and illuminating the firmament, filling the entire sky with its
roar . . . also propellers furnished with wheels, working with atmospheric
expansion, producing sounds loud as the roar of great masses of clouds. . .
Indra’s vimana was whisked along with such speed that the eye could scarcely
follow.” (Vana Parva, Sec. xlii)
Arjuna attacked Hiranyapura with powerful arrows that turned into missiles.
Below is the verse
"We beheld in the sky what appeared to us to be a mass of scarlet cloud
resembling the fierce flames of a blazing fire. From that mass many blazing
missiles flashed, and tremendous roars, like the noise of a thousand drums
beaten at once. And from it fell many weapons winged with gold and thousands
of thunderbolts, with loud explosions, and many hundreds of fiery wheels. Loud
became the uproar of falling horses, slain by these missiles, and of mighty
elephants struck by the explosions . . . Those terrible Rakshasas had the shape
of large mounds stationed in the sky."
Arjuna firing powerful arrows that turned into missiles

Escaping from the attack of great Arjun, the space city deserted its position
from outer space to take shelter on earth. On earth, space city attempted to
stay underwater and underground. No sooner did the space city take off from
underground to the outer space again, Arjuna directed a powerful weapon
breaking the spacecraft into tiny pieces. Below are the verses that describes
Arjuna's fighting experience against the daityas.
"When the Daityas were being slaughtered they again took to their city and,
employing their Danava wizardry, flew up into the sky, city and all. I stopped
them with a mighty volley of arrows, and blocking their road I halted the
Daityas in their course. But because of the boon given them, the Daityas easily
held their celestial, divinely effulgent, airborne city, which could move about at
will. Now it would go underground, then hover high in the sky, go diagonally
with speed, or submerge in the ocean. I assaulted the mobile city, which
resembled Amaravati, with many kinds of missiles, overlord of men. Then I
subdued both city and Daityas with a mass of arrows, which were sped by
divine missiles. Wounded by the iron, straight-traveling arrows I shot off, the
Asura city fell broken on the earth, O king. The Asuras, struck by my lightning-
fast iron shafts, milled around, O king, prompted by Time. Matali swiftly
descended on earth, as in a headlong fall, on our divinely effulgent chariot."
“Gifted with great energy the Rakshasa once more came down to Earth in his
golden vimana . . . when it had landed it looked like a beautifully shaped mound
of antimony on the surface of the ground.” (Ghatotrachabadma)
Flying vimanas

Eco-Friendly light-emitting airplanes of arjuna

Below is the verse that mentions arjuna being dropped by Indra’s
Vimana(aircraft) driven by Pilot Mitali. In this verse, "horses" is an allegory used
for engines that emits light. Also look for the phrase "smokeless flaming
tongues of fire", which means Vimanas was its first kind of eco-friendly jet
engines ever invented on earth.

“And it came to pass that once a day as those mighty charioteers was thinking
of Arjuna, seeing Mahendra's vimana, yoked with horses of the effulgence of
lightning, arrive all on a sudden, they were delighted. And driven by Matali, that
blazing vimana, suddenly illuminating the sky, looked like smokeless flaming
tongues of fire, or a mighty meteor embosomed in clouds and seeing before
them that vimana driving in which the slayer of Namuchi had annihilated seven
phalanxes of Diti's offspring, the magnanimous Parthas went round it. And being
highly pleased, they offered excellent worship unto Matali, as unto the lord of
the celestials himself. And then the son of the Kuru king duly enquired of him
after the health of all the gods. And Matali also greeted them. And having
instructed the Parthas even as a father doth his sons, he ascended that
incomparable vimana, and returned to the lord of the celestials".

Airplane with entire floating city of shalva

In both the Mahabharata and the Bhagavata Purana, there is a mention of
demon king shalva, who with the aid of chief architect Maya Danava, created a
huge military airplane with entire floating city. Some of the wonderful qualities
of this airplane were
1) Special navigation system for seeing at night.
2) Object detection to avoid Collison when traveling at high speed.
3) Ability to become invisible and undetectable
4) Splitting up the airplane into multiple airplanes
Below is the verse that states the extravagant qualities of Salva flying
machines.
“It was a very big machine, almost like a big city, and it could fly so high and at
such a great speed that it was almost impossible to see; so there was no
question of attacking it. It appeared to be almost covered in darkness, yet the
pilot could fly it anywhere and everywhere.”
Salva had many extraordinary airplanes. Another verse states
"The airplanes occupied by Salva were very mysterious. It was so extraordinary
that sometimes many airplanes would appear to be in the sky, and sometimes
there were apparently none. Sometimes the plane was visible and sometimes
not visible, and the warriors of the Yadu dynasty were puzzled about the
whereabouts of the peculiar airplane. Sometimes they would see the airplane on
the ground, sometimes flying in the sky, sometimes resting on the peak of a hill
and sometimes floating on the water. The wonderful airplane flew in the sky like
a whirling firebrand - it was not steady even for a moment."
Fight in air

Vimanas- ancient ying machines of India

Rockets and Nuclear missiles

Below verse depicts the firing of rockets and nuclear missiles from airplanes by
king shalva
“Gurkha, flying a swift and powerful vimana (fast aircraft) hurled a single
projectile (rocket) charged with the power of the Universe (nuclear device). An
incandescent column of smoke and flame, as bright as ten thousand suns, rose
with all its splendor. It was an unknown weapon, 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. 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.” - The Mahabharata

Airplane attack on lord Krishna by king shalva

There are more than 41 references to Vimanas in Mahabharata out of which the
attack on dwaraka deserves special attention. In an aerial flying spacecraft
known as Saubha-pura, King Salva attacked Dwaraka with missiles and rockets
as he maintained his deep hatred against the yadu dynasty. Below is the verse
translation
"The cruel Salva had come mounted on the Saubha chariot that can go
anywhere, and from it he killed many valiant Vrishni youths and evilly
devastated all city parks.His Saubha clung to the sky at a league’s length...He
threw at me rockets, missiles, spears, spikes, battle-axes, three-bladed javelins,
flame-throwers, without pausing....The sky...seemed to hold a hundred suns, a
hundred moons...and a hundred myriad stars. Neither day nor night could be
made out, or the points of compass."

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Airplanes destroyed by anti-ballistic missiles and Sudarshan chakra

Fortunately, the Vrishni heroes also had their own aircrafts and once there came
a time when Lord Krishna son ‘Pradyumna’ was about to kill shalva with his
divine arrow but was stopped by the highest gods with warning “All soldiers on
battlefield would have been killed by his arrow”. Arrow that would kill all
soldiers in a battle? Sounds like a nuclear weapon? There are many more verses
in Mahabharata that explicitly states the Mahabharata war to be somewhat
similar to a modern nuclear war. I will write a separate post on nuclear war of
Mahabharata later.
Then as lord Krishna began to attack and launches a weapon similar to
antiballistic missiles, Salva landed his aircraft on the high seas and came back
with another flying machine to attack lord Krishna. Staying at an altitude of one
Krosa (about 4,000 ft), he gave a tough fight to lord Krishna. After a long fight,
Salva flying machine was finally destroyed into pieces by the powerful ground-
to-air weapon (Sudarshan chakra) fired by lord Krishna. Below is the verse
translation
“Krishna, however, wards off Salva's attack with what sounds like antiballistic
missiles; I warded them off as they loomed towards me. With my swift-striking
shafts, as they flashed through the sky, And I cut them into two or three pieces
with mine. There was a great din in the sky above.”-Lord Krishna, Mahabharata

Vimana of bhima
Arjuna brother Bhima also had his own vimana. Here is the passage about the
same:
"Bhima flew along in his car, resplendent as the sun and loud as thunder . . .
The flying chariot shone like a flame in the night sky of summer . . . it swept by
like a comet . . . It was if two suns were shining. Then the chariot rose up and
all the heavens brightened."

King Yudhishthira ascend to heaven on vimana

Below are the verses that describe the event after the death of the pandavas.
Being left all alone on earth, Yudhishthira was received by aircraft of lord indra.
Below are the verses
"Causing the heaven and the earth to be filled by a loud sound, then Indra came
to Yudhishthira on a car and asked him to ascend it."
"Seeing his brothers fallen on the earth, King Yudhishthira, the just, said to that
deity of a thousand eyes these words: 'My brothers have all dropped down here!
They must go with me. Without them by me, I do not wish to go to the celestial
region, O lord of all the celestials. The delicate princess Draupadi, deserving of
every comfort, should go with us! You should permit this.'
"Indra answered, 'You shall behold your brothers in the celestial region. They
have reached it before you. Indeed, you shall see all of them there, with
Krishna. Do not give way to grief, O chief of the Bharatas! Having renounced
their human bodies they have gone there, O chief of the Bharata race! As for
you, it is ordained that you shall go there in this very body of yours.'"
[After a long debate between the two the following occurs.]
"Then Dharma and Indra and the other deities, causing Yudhishthira to ascend
on a car, went to the celestial region. Those beings crowned with success and
capable of going everywhere at will, rode their respective cars. King
Yudhishthira, riding on his car, ascended quickly, causing the entire sky to blaze
with his effulgence."
Yudhistira in conversation with indra

Shining Gold airplanes

below is the verse that mentions aircrafts shining like gold and engines roaring
like a thunderous cloud.
"And from all sides in vimanas resplendent as the sun, hosts of Gandharvas and
Apsaras began to follow that repressor of foes, the lord of the celestials. And
ascending a vimana yoked with steeds, decorated with burnished gold, and
roaring like clouds, that king of the celestials, Purandara blazing in beauty came
unto the Parthas. And having arrived (at that place), he of a thousand eyes
descended from his vimana". -Section CLXV, VANA PARVA, Mahabharata

Some other verses from Mahabharata on Vimana

Below verse states vimana to be equipped with highly powerful weapons that
makes the aircraft invincible against the highly advanced devas and dangerous
daitya.
"And thereupon that best of cars became still more dazzling with its splendour
and was incapable of being looked at by created beings, as the midday sun
surrounded by a thousand rays . . . And Achyuta, that tiger among men, riding
with the two sons of Pandu upon that celestial car . . . coming out of Girivraja,
stopped (for some time) on a level plain outside of town."
"Vimanas, decked and equipped according to rule, looked like heavenly
structures in the sky . . . borne away they looked like highly beautiful flights of
birds.
Vimana

"The vimanas had all the necessary equipment. It could not be conquered by
the gods or demons. And it radiated light and reverberated with a deep
rumbling sound. Its beauty captivated the minds of all who beheld it.
Visvakarma, the lord of its design and construction, had created it by the power
of his austerities, and its outline, like that of the sun, could not be easily
delineated.
"And having vanquished his foe, Krishna furnished with weapons and
unwounded and accompanied by the kings, came out of Girivraja riding on that
celestial car . . . upon that car Krishna now came out of the hill-fort. Possessed
of the splendour of heated gold, and decked with rows of jingling bells . . .
always slaughtering the foe against whom it was driven, it was the very car
riding upon which Indra had slain ninety-nine Asuras of old."
How present yuga lost this ancient technology?
All this technology and highly advanced civilization vanished after the nuclear
war of Mahabharata where thousands of valiant warriors from all around the
world succumbed to death under the attack of powerful nuclear weapons.
People remaining behind did witness the supersonic airplanes, submarines and
missiles but didn’t had the cutting edge technology and knowledge to re-invent
them and as a result, all the advanced technologies of that yuga never
ascended to this yuga.

Summary
Thus, we have seen the verses on missiles, submarines, nuclear weapons, and
superior airplanes of Mahabharata that reflects the highly advanced lost
civilization of ancient India.
More articles on airplanes to come. Keep in touch
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