I am only a margadarsi. One still has to travel the marg as you are doing.
Bodhi, That Gurjdeiff is very important. Try ot sepnd some time reading up on him.
That Childress guy is inot this vimana stuff and has been writing for quite some time. He is the author of the Lost Cities series of books.
One problem with that Bharadwaja Vimanika Shastra of Mr G. Josyer is that it is not a litteral translation of something that exists. Its Koranic in origin! Means it was written by inspiration. So there are doubts. However there was an AIAA conf in Bangalore in 1988 which came out later that had sketches based on this.
The guy drew up sketches of his interpretation of the stanzas and also a classificatin of different vimanas.
I have been following that stuff before Internet.
BTw look at page 58 of this pdf for exact title of paper:
http://iaaweb.org/iaa/Studies/history.pdf
Abstract:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->INDO-ARYAN TRADITIONS AND HISTORY OF ASTRONAUTS
Pinotti Roberto
1988 - IAA 88-600 - vol 10 - AAS vol.17 - pp. 3-12
In several Indo-Aryan poems and traditions we may find strange descriptions of different mythological flying devides, called "vimanas" in Sanskrit. After a brief analysis of such myths and their necessary comparison, the paper faces the problem of the impressive and detailed descriptions of these flying devices in the light of an advenced science, undergoing their possible conncections with today's aerospace technology.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Bodhi, That Gurjdeiff is very important. Try ot sepnd some time reading up on him.
That Childress guy is inot this vimana stuff and has been writing for quite some time. He is the author of the Lost Cities series of books.
One problem with that Bharadwaja Vimanika Shastra of Mr G. Josyer is that it is not a litteral translation of something that exists. Its Koranic in origin! Means it was written by inspiration. So there are doubts. However there was an AIAA conf in Bangalore in 1988 which came out later that had sketches based on this.
The guy drew up sketches of his interpretation of the stanzas and also a classificatin of different vimanas.
I have been following that stuff before Internet.
BTw look at page 58 of this pdf for exact title of paper:
http://iaaweb.org/iaa/Studies/history.pdf
Abstract:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->INDO-ARYAN TRADITIONS AND HISTORY OF ASTRONAUTS
Pinotti Roberto
1988 - IAA 88-600 - vol 10 - AAS vol.17 - pp. 3-12
In several Indo-Aryan poems and traditions we may find strange descriptions of different mythological flying devides, called "vimanas" in Sanskrit. After a brief analysis of such myths and their necessary comparison, the paper faces the problem of the impressive and detailed descriptions of these flying devices in the light of an advenced science, undergoing their possible conncections with today's aerospace technology.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->