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    "annotation": "Just like the Nazi UFO\u2019s, the Vedic flying machines dwell somewhere in the realms between apocryphal technology and the occult.",
    "description": "Just like the Nazi UFO\u2019s, the Vedic flying machines dwell somewhere in the realms between apocryphal technology and the occult. The work Vymaanika Shaastra has been ascribed to the sage Maharshi Bharadwaja. <br />Maharshi Bharadwaja is known to be a scholar both in science, philosophy, cosmology and warfare. The work on ancient Vedic flying machines was channelled by Pundit Anekal Subbaraya Shastry to a Sanskrit scholar, Sri G Venkatachala Sharma and translated into English by G. R. Josyer. The Vedic flying machines were supposed to be capable of the same flight manoeuvres as Hitlers\u2019 flying saucers (VRIL Rundflugscheiben). <br />The 102nd Indian Science Congress, held at the Mumbai University in January 2015, organised a session on \u201cancient sciences through Sanskrit\u201d in which a presentation on Vaim\u0101nika \u015a\u0101stra was included. It was delivered by Anand J. Bodas, a pilot, and Ameya Jadhav, who holds an M.A. in Sanskrit as well as an M.Tech. degree. Bodas, speaking to the news media, has said that the aeroplanes of Vedic times could fly not only from country to country, but also \u2018from planet to planet.\u2019 \u2018In those days, aeroplanes were huge in size, and could move left, right, as well as backwards, unlike modern planes which only fly forward,\u2019 he added. NASA was not amused with this Congress\u2026",
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