[INDOLOGY] Controversy over Indian Science Congress to include panel On Pushpaka Vimanas

[Sudalaimuthu Palaniappan]

Here is the latest issue related to the Vaimānika Śāstra.

See https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/soon-in-engineering-syllabus-rig-veda-accurately-mentions-speed-of-light-theory-of-gravitation-5377584/ <https://www.frontline.in/the-nation/article25437649.ece>.

Here is the petition initiated by Aniket Sule <http://www.hbcse.tifr.res.in/people/academic/aniket-sule>, https://www.change.org/p/aicte-mhrd-aicte-should-withdraw-its-endorsement-of-pseudo-scientific-book <https://www.change.org/p/aicte-mhrd-aicte-should-withdraw-its-endorsement-of-pseudo-scientific-book>.

Regards,
Palaniappan


> On Dec 29, 2014, at 6:33 AM, Michael Witzel <witzel at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
> 
> I would like to draw your attention to V. Raghavan's (separately published) paper (33 pp.)
> 
> Yantras or Mechanical Contrivances in Ancient India. 
> 
> Transaction no. 10 (2nd edition)
> The Indian Institute of Culture
> (6, North Public Square Road, Bangalore 4)
> 1956
> 
> He also deals with "aerial vehicles" extensively, with text passages taken from Epic and Classical literature but also (importantly) from:
> * Maneśvara's Mānasollāsa (c. 1131 CE) and 
> * Bhoja's  Śrṅgāramañjarī and his Samarāṅgaṇasūtradhāra.
> 
> Extensive description of a light wood bird, with several fires heating mercury inside… 
> 
> Amusingly, the texts often refer to the technical knowledge of …  the Yavana.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Michael
> 
> 
> On Dec 28, 2014, at 12:07 PM, Dominik Wujastyk wrote:
> 
>> Here's a refutation of the Vaimanika arguments, by a group of Indian scholars at the Indian Institute of Technology at Bangalore, from 1974.  PDF attached to this email.
>> 
>> H. S. Mukunda, S. M. Deshpande, H. R. Nagendra, A. Prabhu, S. P. Govindaraju, "A Critical Sudy of the Work Vymanika Shastra" in Scientific Opinion, 1974:5-12.
>> 
>> Best,
>> Dominik Wujastyk
>> ​
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