Vaimānika Shāstra
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Vaimānika Shāstra
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The Vaimānika Śāstra is a 20th-century text in Sanskrit. It makes the claim that the vimānas mentioned in ancient Sanskrit epics were advanced aerodynamic flying vehicles. The existence of the text was revealed in 1952 by G. R. Josyer who asserted that it was written by Pandit Subbaraya Shastry (1866–1940), who dictated it during the years 1918–1923. A Hindi translation was published in 1959, while the Sanskrit text with an English translation was published in 1973. It contains 3000 shlokas in 8
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20th century Sanskrit text on aeronautics
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2007-08-30T07:45:14Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T19:34:20Z
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