Flying high - by K R Swamy, Deccan Herald, 2003
[ Subject: FLYING HIGH
[ From: Dr. Jai Maharaj
[ Date: Thursday, December 18, 2003
Flying high
Hundred years after Orville Wright's first flight, K R
N SWAMY remembers Shivkur Bapuji Talpade, the Indian who
flew an unmanned aircraft, eight years before Wright
The Deccan Herald
Wednesday, December 17, 2003
Orville Wright demonstrated on December 17th 1903 that
it was possible for a 'manned heavier than air machine
to fly'. But, in 1895, eight years earlier, the Sanskrit
scholar Shivkar Bapuji Talpade had designed a basic
aircraft called Marutsakthi (meaning Power of Air) based
on Vedic technology and had it take off unmanned before
a large audience in the Chowpathy beach of Bombay. The
importance of the Wright brothers lies in the fact, that
it was a manned flight for a distance of 120 feet and
Orville Wright became the first man to fly. But
Talpade's unmanned aircraft flew to a height of 1500
feet before crashing down and the historian Evan
Koshtka, has described Talpade as the 'first creator of
an aircraft'.
As the world observes the one hundredth anniversary of
the first manned flight, it is interesting to consider
the saga of India's 19th century first aircraft inventor
for his design was entirely based on the rich treasury
of India's Vedas. Shivkar Bapuji Talpade was born in
1864 in the locality of Chirabazar at Dukkarwadi in
Bombay.
He was a scholar of Sanskrit and from his young age was
attracted by the Vaimanika Sastra (Aeronautical Science)
expounded by the great Indian sage Maharishi Bhardwaja.
One western scholar of Indology Stephen-Knapp has put in
simple words or rather has tried to explain what Talpade
did and succeeded!
According to Knapp, the Vaimanika Shastra describes in
detail, the construction of what is called, the mercury
vortex engine the forerunner of the ion engines being
made today by NASA. Knapp adds that additional
information on the mercury engines can be found in the
ancient Vedic text called Samaranga Sutradhara. This
text also devotes 230 verses, to the use of these
machines in peace and war. The Indologist William
Clarendon, who has written down a detailed description
of the mercury vortex engine in his translation of
Samaranga Sutradhara quotes thus 'Inside the circular
air frame, place the mercury-engine with its solar
mercury boiler at the aircraft center. By means of the
power latent in the heated mercury which sets the
driving whirlwind in motion a man sitting inside may
travel a great distance in a most marvellous manner.
Four strong mercury containers must be built into the
interior structure. When these have been heated by fire
through solar or other sources the vimana (aircraft)
develops thunder-power through the mercury.
NASA (National Aeronau-tical and Space Administra-tion)
world's richest/ most powerful scientific organisation
is trying to create an ion engine that is a device that
uses a stream of high velocity electrified particles
instead of a blast of hot gases like in present day
modern jet engines. Surprisingly according to the bi-
monthly Ancient Skies published in USA, the aircraft
engines being developed for future use by NASA by some
strange coincidence also uses mercury bombardment units
powered by Solar cells! Interestingly, the impulse is
generated in seven stages. The mercury propellant is
first vapourised fed into the thruster discharge chamber
ionised converted into plasma by a combination with
electrons broke down electrically and then accelerated
through small openings in a screen to pass out of the
engine at velocities between 1200 to 3000 kilometres per
minute! But so far NASA has been able to produce an
experimental basis only a one pound of thrust by its
scientists a power derivation virtually useless. But 108
years ago Talpade was able to use his knowledge of
Vaimanika Shastra to produce sufficient thrust to lift
his aircraft 1500 feet into the air!
According to Indian scholar Acharya, 'Vaimanika Shastra
deals about aeronautics including the design of aircraft
the way they can be used for transportation and other
applications in detail. The knowledge of aeronautics is
described in Sanskrit in 100 sections, eight chapters,
500 principles and 3000 slokas including 32 techniques
to fly an aircraft. In fact, depending on the
classifications of eras or Yugas in modern Kaliyuga
aircraft used are called Krithakavimana flown by the
power of engines by absorbing solar energies!' It is
feared that only portions of Bharadwaja's masterpiece
Vaimanika Shas-tra survive today.
The question that comes to one's mind is, what happened
to this wonderful encyclopaedia of aeronautical
knowledge accumulated by the Indian savants of yore, and
why was it not used? But in those days, such knowledge
was the preserve of sages, who would not allow it to be
misused, just like the knowledge of atomic bombs is
being used by terrorists today!
According to scholar Ratnakar Mahajan who wrote a
brochure on Talpade. 'Being a Sanskrit scholar
interested in aeronautics, Talpade studied and consulted
a number of Vedic treatises like Brihad Vaimanika
Shastra of Maharishi Bharadwaja Vimanachandrika of
Acharya Narayan Muni Viman yantra of Maharish Shownik
Yantra Kalp by Maharishi Garg Muni Viman Bindu of
Acharya Vachaspati and Vimana Gyanarka Prakashika of
Maharishi Dhundiraj'. This gave him confidence that he
can build an aircraft with mercury engines. One
essential factor in the creation of these Vedic aircraft
was the timing of the Suns Rays or Solar energy (as
being now utilised by NASA) when they were most
effective to activate the mercury ions of the engine.
Happily for Talpade Maharaja Sayaji Rao Gaekwad of
Baroda a great supporter of the Sciences in India, was
willing to help him and Talpade went ahead with his
aircraft construction with mercury engines. One day in
1895 (unfortunately the actual date is not mentioned in
the Kesari newspaper of Pune which covered the event)
before an curious scholarly audience headed by the
famous Indian judge/ nationalist/ Mahadeva Govin-da
Ranade and H H Sayaji Rao Gaekwad Talpade had the good
fortune to see his un manned aircraft named as
'Marutsakthi' take off, fly to a height of 1500 feet and
then fall down to earth.
But this success of an Indian scientist was not liked
by the Imperial rulers. Warned by the British Government
the Maharaja of Baroda stopped helping Talpade. It is
said that the remains of the Marutsakthi were sold to
'foreign parties' by the relatives of Talpade in order
to salvage whatever they can out of their loans to him.
Talpade's wife died at this critical juncture and he was
not in a mental frame to continue with his researches.
But his efforts to make known the greatness of Vedic
Shastras was recognised by Indian scholars, who gave him
the title of Vidya Prakash Pra-deep.
Talpade passed away in 1916 un-honoured, in his own
country.
As the world rightly honours the Wright Brothers for
their achievements, we should think of Talpade, who
utilised the ancient knowledge of Sanskrit texts, to fly
an aircraft, eight years before his foreign counterparts.
More at:
http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/dec16/snt2.asp
Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
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