Vaimanika Shstra
What the Vaimanika Shastra Tells about Ancient Vimanas of India On 28 June 1951, the then Maharajah of Mysuru inaugurated the International Sanskrit Research Centre in Mysuru. The then Chief Minister of Mysuru State Sri C K Reddy was in attendance. G R Josyer was the Director of that Research Centre. The guests were shown all the rare collections of Sanskrit scriptures and literature, painstakingly gathered from various sources. It was indeed an impressive collection. But there was one small handwritten note book which surprised them the most. What were the contents of that book? The title of the book was “Vaimanika Shastra of Maharishi Bharadhwaj” For the guests or to the audience this was a strange title and they had never heard about it before. What further surprised them was, the person who brought this book from Bangalore, informed them that this is the first of the collection of 22 such note books all handwritten by one Venkatachala Shastri as dictated by ...