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A Hindi translation was published in 1959, the Sanskrit text with an English translation in 1973. ... its name derived from Sanskrit Vimāna. Vimana is an arcade game ...
Title page of the English translation of Vyamanika Shastra published in 1973. The Vaimānika Śāstra (वैमानिक शास्त्र, lit. "shastra on the topic of Vimanas"; or "science of aeronautics", sometimes also rendered Vimanika, Vymanika, Vyamanika) is a 20th-century text in Sanskrit.
Haug, in his translation of the Aitareya Brahmana (1.1.5) of the Rigveda, clarifies that the 'three worlds' often means the Ground (Earth), the Air (Atmosphere), and the Sky (Heavens). [38] Three steps thus encompasses all of physical existence (although in some Puranic accounts Vamana does so in only two steps).
Its name in Pali means "Stories of the Vimana," usually translated as 'heavenly abodes' or 'divine mansions'. [1] The Vimanavatthu is an anthology of 83 short stories written in verse, divided into seven chapters or vagga. Each story describes the life and deeds of a character who has attained residence in a heavenly mansion, the "Vimana", due ...
The Vamana Purana (Sanskrit: वामन पुराण, IAST: Vāmana Purāṇa), is an ancient Sanskrit text that is at least 1,000 years old and is one of the eighteen major Puranas of Hinduism. [1] The text is named after one of the incarnations of Vishnu and probably was a Vaishnava text in its origin. [1]
A seven-storey vimana. Vimana is the structure over the garbhagriha or inner sanctum in the Hindu temples of South India and Odisha in East India. In typical temples of Odisha using the Kalinga style of architecture, the vimana is the tallest structure of the temple, as it is in the shikhara towers of temples in West and North India.
A Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press. A general on-line search engine for this dictionary is available from "U. Cologne" at ; Ñā ṇ amoli, Bhikkhu (trans.) & Bodhi, Bhikkhu (ed.) (2001). The Middle-Length Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Majjhima Nikāya. Boston: Wisdom Publications. ISBN 0-86171-072-X.
Possibly, failing that, it could redirect to Die Glocke (conspiracy theory) instead, since that does have a lot about something roughly adjacent to mercury vortex engines, or to Vimana - that might make more sense than Vaimānika Shāstra, since it turns out that there's at least one other, much older, account of vimanas being propelled by ...