Vaimanika Shastra in Sanskrit only

[Ecneics]

Dear fellow Sanskrit-enthusiasts,

I am looking a for a PDF version of the original Vaimanika Shastra only in Sanskrit (no translations as I do not want to corrupt my own interpretations of the text). If anyone of you is in possession of one or know where to obtain one please let me know. My own search proved to be futile as I could only find a few pages of the eight chapter Vaimanika Shastra, a page of which is attached with this mail. Even reverse image search seems to be futile.

Yours Sincerely

Abhishek Kumar Mehta

[Nagaraj Paturi]

The book is not available in its full version anywhere. 

Only parts are available. 

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Nagaraj Paturi

 

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BoS, MIT School of Vedic Sciences, Pune, Maharashtra

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FLAME School of Communication and FLAME School of  Liberal Education, 

Hyderabad, Telangana, INDIA.

 

 

 

[Nagaraj Paturi]

https://www.rarebooksocietyofindia.org/postDetail.php?id=196174216674_10151655262956675
Digital Rare Book:
Vaimanika Shastra
By Pandit Subbaraya Shastry
Translated by G.R.Josyer
Printed at The Coronation Press, Mysore - 1973

The Vaimānika Shāstra ( वैमानिक शास्त्र, lit. "shastra on the topic of Vimanas"; sometimes also rendered Vimanika, Vymanika) is an early 20th century Sanskrit text on aeronautics obtained by psychic channeling and automatic writing. It makes the claim that the vimānas mentioned in ancient Sanskrit epics were advanced aerodynamic flying vehicles, similar to a rocket.

The existence of the text was revealed in 1952 by G. R. Josyer who asserted that it was written by Pandit Subbaraya Shastry (1866–1940), who dictated it during the years 1918–1923. A Hindi translation was published in 1959, while the Sanskrit text with an English translation was published in 1973. It contains 3000 shlokas in 8 chapters which Shastry claimed was psychically delivered to him by the ancient Hindu sage Bharadvaja.The text has gained favor among proponents of ancient astronaut theories.

J. B. Hare of the Internet Sacred Text Archive in 2005 compiled an online edition of Josyer's 1973 book, in the site's "UFOs" section. In his introduction, Hare writes:

The Vymanika Shastra was first committed to writing between 1918 and 1923, and nobody is claiming that it came from some mysterious antique manuscript. The fact is, there are no manuscripts of this text prior to 1918, and nobody is claiming that there are.

[Ecneics]

Yes. I did find a translated version but I do not wish to corrupt my interpretation. The temptation to read the translation is very high for me when I do not understand a Sanskrit shloka immediately that is why I am looking for moolmaatra version.

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[Nagaraj Paturi]

It is available on Archive.org

https://archive.org/details/wg003/page/n25/mode/2up

https://archive.org/download/wg003/WG003-1959-02-BrihadVimaanShastra.pdf

sample page:

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[Ecneics]

Thank you for this none-the-less.

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[Nagaraj Paturi]

The following is another edition by another organization:

https://archive.org/details/NWPo_viman-shastra-vaimanik-prakaran-with-bodhanand-vritti-and-trans.-by-priyaratna-a/page/n23/mode/2up

Viman Shastra Vaimanik Prakaran With Bodhanand Vritti And Trans. By Priyaratna Arya 1943 Sarva Arya Pratinidhi Sabha Delhi

This is just 68 pages

[Nagaraj Paturi]

[Nagaraj Paturi]

For the benefit of those who are interested on the discussions on this topic by people engaged in IKS:

https://vedasamskrutisamiti.org.in/vimana-sastra/

Webinar delivered by Dr.C.S.R.Prabhu 20 Oct 2022 for 2nd Batch of CCSD

  Lecture Notes transcripted by PIN 256 Padmaja T verson 30 Nov 22

Vimana Sastra is one of the topics taught in the Sanatana Dharma course. Dr.CSR Prabhu has given a lecture on 20 October 2022 on this subject.

[Ecneics]

Yes, yes. I have seen these. But I wanted an untranslated version. Pure Sanskrit version because I found a few pages of that. I just wanted to know if anyone here possesses that version. 

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[Nagaraj Paturi]

Dear Ecneics,

The pdfs of the printed editions available on Archive.org have Sanskrit shlokas that you need. You need not pass your eyes on to the Hindi portions and use the Sanskrit portion only. 

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