Vaimanika Shastra and Futuristic Technology 5000 years back...!

I have started learning Sanskrit. It is a training course run by Sanskrit Bharati in the Microsoft Campus itself. This training got started yesterday. The HoD of Hyderabad University, Sanskrit Section had come to inaugurate the session. She was talking about how and why sanskrit is necessary.

She talked about what kind of profound knowledge our Vedic Shastras have and how that knowledge can be used. 2000 years back, in one of our shastras, there was the decimal to binary conversion algorithm. And it was recursive in nature. she actually showed us the sutra that described the algorithm. She then broke it down to every word and explained how it converts decimal to binary. Most amusingly, this sutra was just 4 words. So this sutra explained the decimal to binary conversion algorithm in just 4 words.

She also mentioned that Panini had written the entire grammar in 8 chapters which is called the Ashtadhyaya. And in it he had used concepts like Abstraction and Inheritance. Common properties should be taken to the base and should apply by default if specific properties are not provided.

There are other shastras like the Vaimanika Shastra which is a text about aeronautics and discusses the construction of vimanas, or the chariots of the gods, mythical self moving aerial cars. It covers the following things:

1. The secret science constructing aircrafts which will not catch fire and indestructible by normal means
2. The secret of making aircrafts motionless
3. The secret of 100% stealth aircrafts
4. The secret of espionage using remote hearing
5. The secret of espoinage using remote viewing
6. The secret of radar technology for viewing remote enemy planes
7. The secret of making enemies un-concious
8. The secret of destroying enemy planes

The propulsion of the vimanas is used by a "mercury vortex engine" apparently a concept similar to electric propulsion. The evidence of the mercury vortex engine can be found in the "Samarangana Sutradhar" The 11th Century treatise on architecture.

The questions that come to our mind is that if we had such technology and such science, which is still science fiction to us with all our modern science in action, where did all this vanish? Now there are a no. of theories for which we have no particular evidence, and I will propose these theories in my upcoming posts. But According to Professor Uma, the problem that we are facing these days is that the Sanskrit Pundits that we have do not understand modern science and physics. And the modern day intellectuals do not understand Sanskrit.

Hence we should try to learn Sanskrit and study these shastras as much as possible. revive them. And who knows the world might see a completely new face of Science. Which is perhaps way ahead of what we have today.