Ancient India

 
India was home to the once great Indus Valley civilisation, which included more than a thousand settlements and declined at about 1700 BC. (1)
 
 
Noorbergen (9), tells us that 'In India, dolmens dot the land from Nerbuddha River to Cape Comorin. At the latest count (1977), the Neermul jungle of central India has yielded at least 2,000 of the monuments...and another 2,200 have been located in Dacca'. (9)
 
 
Newsflash - The 2004 tsunami uncovered an ancient underwater temple complex.
 
 
Wood writes that a goddess shrine was found south of Allahabad that dated to 11,000 BC. (1)

The Ashoka pillar - Delhi.

 

 

India - The 'Ashoka Pillar' (Photo, left), in the courtyard of Kutb Minar in Delhi. It is a column of Cast Iron weighing approx. 6 tons and standing 23ft 8 inches high, with a diameter of 16inches. The column had stood in the temple of Mutra, capped with 'Garuda', an image of a bird incarnation of the God Vishnu. Muslim invaders later destroyed the 'Garuda' and tore the column from its original setting, re-erecting it in Delhi in the 11th century AD. It bears an inscription of an epitaph to King Chandraupta II, who died in 413AD. The bar shows some weathering, but unusually little rust. (9)

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The Hindu 'Vimana's' - The Indian sacred scriptures make numerous references to flight. Incredibly, the most ancient and sacred texts discuss high speed manoeuvres, invisibility, and even a flight to the moon.

The Hindu Samaranga Sutadhara contains 230 stanzas that are devoted to flight. It describes in detail, every possible aspect of flying.  The International Academy off Sanskrit Research in Mysore, India, conducted a study of the ancient texts and published its findings in a book called 'Aeronautics, a manuscript From the Prehistoric Past'. The following are a few translated excerpts from the text:

'The aircraft which can go by its own force like a bird - on the earth or water or through the air - is called a Vimana. That which can travel in the sky from place to place is called a Vimana by the sage of old.'

'The body must be strong and durable and built of a light wood [Lagha-daru], shaped like a bird in flight with wings outstretched [mahavinhanga]. Within it must be placed the mercury engine, with its heating apparatus made of iron underneath'.

'In the larger craft [Daru-vimana], because it is built heavier, [alaghu], four strong containers of mercurymust be built into the interior. When these are heated by controlled fire from the iron containers, the Vimana possesses thunder power through the mercury. The iron engine must have properly welded joints to be filled with mercury, and when the fire is conducted to the upper parts, it develops power with the roar of a lion. By means of the energy latent in mercury, the driving whirlwind is set in motion, and the traveller sitting inside the Vimana may travel in the air, to such a distance as to look like a pearl in the sky'.(2).

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Anardhapura

 

Location – India.

Carved from solid rock and covered with brass, larger than the pyramids of Egypt.

 

 Ruwanweli Pagoda.

 

Location - India.

144BC, Base of solid silver (500ft sq x 7inches).

 

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References:

1). Michael Wood. In Search of the First Civilisations. 1992. BBC Books.

9). Rene Noorbergen. Secrets of the Lost Races. New English Library. 1977.