QUOTE(zandore @ Jan 15 2005, 03:21 PM)
I will not have time today and it don't look like somthing I would read but Icould scan it and see if I would might like it.
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Well, the popular extracts are all over the internet.
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Cukra, riding in that excellent vimana--which was powered by Celestial Forces, proceeded for the destruction of Triple City . . . These three parts are to be destroyed by one missile, by no other means can their destruction be effected . . . Cukra, surrounded by the Maruts, began hurling thunder upon the Triple City from all sides . . . He flings a missile which contained the Power of the Universe, at the Triple City . . . the city began to burn . . . Smoke, looking like ten thousand suns, blazed up in splendour. (Drona Parva)
Thats the first time I've heard that one.
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At the critical time the beam of fire must be released, which will make the action possible. The time-beam expands, accompanied by sound . . . the expansion performs work like an elephant in an endless cycle.
Heres a part taken from the part that describes the Vimana and how it works. In other passages, theres mention of different metals that are used to build it and it mentions mercury being used in its engines... Theres a part that mentions how the 'pilot' is trained and the rules he must follow...
This, still, is not the interesting part...
Heres a picture someone drew from the descriptions of a vimana. Its not really much to go one but its still interesting.

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"Dense arrows of flame, like a great shower, issued forth upon creation, encompassing the enemy....A thick gloom swiftly settled upon the Pandava hosts. All points of the compass were lost in darkness. Fierce winds began to blow. Clouds roared upward, showering dust and gravel.
"Birds croaked madly...the very elements seemed disturbed. The sun seemed to waver in the heavens. The earth shook, scorched by the terrible violent heat of this weapon. Elephants burst into flame and ran to and fro in a frenzy...over a vast area, other animals crumpled to the ground and died. From all points of the compass the arrows of flame rained continuously and fiercely."
"Gurkha, flying in his swift and powerful Vimana, hurled against the three cities of the Vrishnis and Andhakas a single projectile charged with all the power of the Universe. An incandescent column of smoke and flame as bright as the thousand suns rose in all its splendour...An iron thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death, which reduced to ashes the entire race of the Vrishnis and the Andhakas....The corpses were so burned as to be unrecognizable. The hair and nails fell out; pottery broke without apparent cause, and the birds turned white....After a few hours all foodstuffs were infected.... To escape from this fire, the soldiers threw themselves in streams to wash themselves and their equipment..."
Those kinds of stories are the interesting ones!