please also see on vimans,
http://www.hinduwisdom.info/Vimanas.htm
please also see on vimans,
http://www.hinduwisdom.info/Vimanas.htm
namaste pandeji.
I strongly believe that the science of aviation and avionics originated in the Hindu scriptures. When we read about the vimAnika shAstra we should remember Shivkar Bapuji Talpade, who flew an unmanned airplane based on the technology of this text in 1895, eight years before the Wright brothers flew their first plane.
Guided by his guru pandit subbarAya shAstri, the author of vimAnika shAstra, Talpade designed his aircraft that he named mArutsakhA--friend of the wind, and flew it at chowpatty beach, mumbai, before a large audience, which included mahArAjA sayAjirAo gaekvad III.
Here are the relevant links to the historical event:
Shivkar Bapuji Talpade
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shivkar_Bapuji_Talpade
A flight over Chowpatty that made history
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/a...how/890055.cms
Popular names relating to scientific inventions are often propped up by the power of vested interests. Such is the case with the invention of wireless telegraphy by Marconi, which was invented before him by the Indian scientist jagdIsh chandra bose.
रत्नाकरधौतपदां हिमालयकिरीटिनीम् ।
ब्रह्मराजर्षिररत्नाढ्यां वन्दे भारतमातरम् ॥
To her whose feet are washed by the ocean, who wears the Himalayas as her crown, and is adorned with the gems of rishis and kings, to Mother India, do I bow down in respect.
--viShNu purANam
Quantum Physics in the Vedas
The research paper titled "Creation--Annihilation--Vedic View" by Dr. S. Siva Ram Babu throws a new light on the much maligned slaughters and sacrifices described in the Vedas. I have given a gist of part of the paper in my own way below. This paper can be downloaded from http://www.serveveda.org/anihilation.pdf .
agni and the pashus
• The shatapatha brAhmaNa of the shukya yajur veda, in kANDa 6, adhyAya 2 describes an animal sacrifice.
6.2.1.1 and 6.2.1.2: prajApati set his mind upon agni's forms: He saw pancha-pashus--five animals, viz. puruShaM--man, ashvaM--horse, gAmaviM--bull and ram and ajaM--he-goat. Inasmuch as he saw them--pashya, they are (called) pashu--cattle.
Note that these 'five cattle forms' are described as the forms of agni and the descriptions continues that prajApati entered them and then slaughtered the pashus for agni.
• yajur veda 23.17 also says, "agni was pashu." How come the fire was an animal in an earlier form? At least the animal is on fire when it is sacrificed, not the other way surely?
• taittirIya brAhmaNa 1.1.4.5 confirms, "pashus are agnIya."
Now, substitute the meaning 'particle' for 'pashu' and 'energy' for 'agni'. Visualize the slaughter, sacrifice and agni appearing as pashus and viz versa as mutual transformation between particles and energy--you have advanced quantum physics in the Vedas!
• The term 'pashu' is from the root pash--to see. 'agni' means 'one that leads'; it is related to the agra--the foremost part, front. Thus, agni--energy that is always the leader and the pashu--particle is seen and observed as energy cryztallizes into matter.
The homakuNDaM where prajApati performed his experiments of slaughter and sacrifice was not the physical oven but the laboratory of his mind. Therefore he visualized agni to become pashu and vice versa. Thousands of years later, Albert Einstein performed similar experiments in the laboratory of his mind and discovered the theory of relativity and came out with the famous equation E = mc^2--a formula for transformation between matter and energy.
origin of the pashus from the agni
Vedic quantum physics postulates an interim stage for the transformation between enery into matter; this interim stage is confirmed by the non-stable subatomic particles of modern physics.
• The puruSha, hymn 10.90 of the Rig Veda describes the origin of the particles:
"From that yajna curd, butter was obtained. From that, vAyavya, AraNya and grAmya pashus were born."
The formation of curd and butter indicate the conversion of homogeneous energy into hetrogeneous, which then gave rise to three types of particles.
• The grAmya pashus are particles that tend to stay together, like the people in a grAmam--village. They are the Bosons of modern physics.
• The AraNya particles are wild and tend to stay alone. They are the Fermions.
• The vAyavya are field particles that are exchanged in particle formation, such as the photons in electromagnetic interaction as postulated in modern physics.
grAmya pashus
The Rig Veda hymn 10.90.10 further subdivides the grAyma pashus into four kinds: ashva--horses, go--cow, avi--sheep and aja--goats.
The Rig Veda hymn 1.163 describes the characteristics of this ashva--horse particle:
1.163.1 "When you roared springing from sea or land after birth, your great birth is worthy of praise you have wings of eagle and arms of deer."
This ashva--horse with wings can be considered the equivalent of the quark particles of modern physics.
1.163.2 "This horse was given by yama. trita harnessed it, indra captured him first and gandharva held its reins. vasus made this horse from sun."
The association of ashva with trita in this verse indicates that the particle carries 1/3 charge (trita), like the quarks.
1.163.3 "You are yama, you are Aditya, you are trita by a hidden act, you are well associated with soma. You have three bindings in Heaven it is said."
The ashva particles are 'hidden', just like the quarks, which in modern physics cannot be seen in isolation.
1.163.11 "O horse, your body is made for flying, your mind is rapid as wind. Your beautiful horns are placed in various ways and travel in forests."
A horse is spoken of as having horns! This can be a deliberate description to distinguish the ashva as a particle from a normal horse.
1.163.12 "Strong horse goes for slaughtering meditating upon the gods. His navel, goat is led ahead, praisers and poets follow him."
Finally, the ashva is sacrificed, transformed to become agni--energy.
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The author continues his paper with illustrations about the gau and aja particles, tracing their parallels in modern physics. The paper has drawn from 20 varied texts for its content. In conclusion, the author exhorts young Hindu minds to carry on the research on the lines he has indicated and come up with the Hindu paradigms of the ultimate realities of creation and annihilation.
रत्नाकरधौतपदां हिमालयकिरीटिनीम् ।
ब्रह्मराजर्षिररत्नाढ्यां वन्दे भारतमातरम् ॥
To her whose feet are washed by the ocean, who wears the Himalayas as her crown, and is adorned with the gems of rishis and kings, to Mother India, do I bow down in respect.
--viShNu purANam
Quantum Physics in the Vedas
The research paper titled "Creation--Annihilation--Vedic View" by Dr. S. Siva Ram Babu throws a new light on the much maligned slaughters and sacrifices described in the Vedas. I have given a gist of part of the paper in my own way below. This paper can be downloaded from http://www.serveveda.org/anihilation.pdf .
agni and the pashus
• The shatapatha brAhmaNa of the shukya yajur veda, in kANDa 6, adhyAya 2 describes an animal sacrifice.
6.2.1.1 and 6.2.1.2: prajApati set his mind upon agni's forms: He saw pancha-pashus--five animals, viz. puruShaM--man, ashvaM--horse, gAmaviM--bull and ram and ajaM--he-goat. Inasmuch as he saw them--pashya, they are (called) pashu--cattle.
Note that these 'five cattle forms' are described as the forms of agni and the descriptions continues that prajApati entered them and then slaughtered the pashus for agni.
• yajur veda 23.17 also says, "agni was pashu." How come the fire was an animal in an earlier form? At least the animal is on fire when it is sacrificed, not the other way surely?
• taittirIya brAhmaNa 1.1.4.5 confirms, "pashus are agnIya."
Now, substitute the meaning 'particle' for 'pashu' and 'energy' for 'agni'. Visualize the slaughter, sacrifice and agni appearing as pashus and viz versa as mutual transformation between particles and energy--you have advanced quantum physics in the Vedas!
• The term 'pashu' is from the root pash--to see. 'agni' means 'one that leads'; it is related to the agra--the foremost part, front. Thus, agni--energy that is always the leader and the pashu--particle is seen and observed as energy cryztallizes into matter.
The homakuNDaM where prajApati performed his experiments of slaughter and sacrifice was not the physical oven but the laboratory of his mind. Therefore he visualized agni to become pashu and vice versa. Thousands of years later, Albert Einstein performed similar experiments in the laboratory of his mind and discovered the theory of relativity and came out with the famous equation E = mc^2--a formula for transformation between matter and energy.
origin of the pashus from the agni
Vedic quantum physics postulates an interim stage for the transformation between enery into matter; this interim stage is confirmed by the non-stable subatomic particles of modern physics.
• The puruSha, hymn 10.90 of the Rig Veda describes the origin of the particles:
"From that yajna curd, butter was obtained. From that, vAyavya, AraNya and grAmya pashus were born."
The formation of curd and butter indicate the conversion of homogeneous energy into hetrogeneous, which then gave rise to three types of particles.
• The grAmya pashus are particles that tend to stay together, like the people in a grAmam--village. They are the Bosons of modern physics.
• The AraNya particles are wild and tend to stay alone. They are the Fermions.
• The vAyavya are field particles that are exchanged in particle formation, such as the photons in electromagnetic interaction as postulated in modern physics.
grAmya pashus
The Rig Veda hymn 10.90.10 further subdivides the grAyma pashus into four kinds: ashva--horses, go--cow, avi--sheep and aja--goats.
The Rig Veda hymn 1.163 describes the characteristics of this ashva--horse particle:
1.163.1 "When you roared springing from sea or land after birth, your great birth is worthy of praise you have wings of eagle and arms of deer."
This ashva--horse with wings can be considered the equivalent of the quark particles of modern physics.
1.163.2 "This horse was given by yama. trita harnessed it, indra captured him first and gandharva held its reins. vasus made this horse from sun."
The association of ashva with trita in this verse indicates that the particle carries 1/3 charge (trita), like the quarks.
1.163.3 "You are yama, you are Aditya, you are trita by a hidden act, you are well associated with soma. You have three bindings in Heaven it is said."
The ashva particles are 'hidden', just like the quarks, which in modern physics cannot be seen in isolation.
1.163.11 "O horse, your body is made for flying, your mind is rapid as wind. Your beautiful horns are placed in various ways and travel in forests."
A horse is spoken of as having horns! This can be a deliberate description to distinguish the ashva as a particle from a normal horse.
1.163.12 "Strong horse goes for slaughtering meditating upon the gods. His navel, goat is led ahead, praisers and poets follow him."
Finally, the ashva is sacrificed, transformed to become agni--energy.
**********
The author continues his paper with illustrations about the gau and aja particles, tracing their parallels in modern physics. The paper has drawn from 20 varied texts for its content. In conclusion, the author exhorts young Hindu minds to carry on the research on the lines he has indicated and come up with the Hindu paradigms of the ultimate realities of creation and annihilation.
रत्नाकरधौतपदां हिमालयकिरीटिनीम् ।
ब्रह्मराजर्षिररत्नाढ्यां वन्दे भारतमातरम् ॥
To her whose feet are washed by the ocean, who wears the Himalayas as her crown, and is adorned with the gems of rishis and kings, to Mother India, do I bow down in respect.
--viShNu purANam
Dharbham the Holy Grass by TRS Iyengar
http://www.trsiyengar.com/id65.shtml
The Holy Grass known as Dharbham or Dharbai - Kush Grass, Kusa - Eragrostis cynosuroides
This article is on one of the practices widely used by Indian Brahmins all over using a Holy Grass named Dharbham or Dharbai. The botonical name is Eragrostis cynosuroides and Hindi they call as Kus or Kusha. Brahmins in general and Srivaishnavites in particular use this Darbai grass in all functions, auspicious or inauspicious, a performing person needs to wear a ring made of this Dharbham. But many have lost the reason of why it is to be used in the first place.
What I learnt from my father is proved to be accurately correct by a Medicine Practitioner. A medical practitioner named Dr. Sadhashiv Rao, once visited my home. When the topic turned to many subjects, I needed to tell him about the Holy Grass named Dharbham. When I told him about the usage and the values, he could not just believe my words. So, he took out a bunch of the Dharbham from me, went straight to the clinic to take an x-ray of his palm, by covering his hand with the Dharbham. To his utter surprise, he found that the grass absorbed about 60% of the (x-ray) radiation!
When the so powerful X-ray radiation can be absorbed by the Holy Grass, why can it not absorb the ill-radiations spread over the atmosphere? While chanting and reciting some Vedic phrases and versus, one needs to wear a ring made of Dharbham on his right hand ring finger. This is most essential, while performing all the rituals, such as Agni Santhanam, Thiru-Aaradhanam, all sorts of Havans known as Homam etc.
The count of leaves depends upon the function that is held viz.: for some functions related to death only Single leaf Dharbham is used; for Auspicious and daily routine a ring made of two leaves is used; for inauspicious but not death related functions, (i.e. Amavasya Tharppanam, Pithru Pooja etc) a three leaf Dharbham ring is used. And for the Temple Prayer and Pooja, a Four-leaf Dharbham ring is used.
Also, when a fire ritual known as Agni Santhana is performed, these Dharbham are spread all the four sides of the Agni Kundam. Also, during the Eclipse time, these Dharbham are used to cover all food items to protect them from the harmful ultra violet radiation.
Whenever any function is held, firstly they perform a site-cleansing act known as "Sudhhi Punyaahavachanam". While reciting the selective versus, they hold the Dharbham bunch in their hand and placing the tip point of it over the vessel containing water. Thus the recited vibration values are absorbed by water in the vessel through the Dharbham.
They found that the Holy Grass known as Dharbham has the highest value in conducting the phonetic vibrations through its tip. Later, they sprinkle the Holy water at every nook and corner of the place, where the function is held. A Dharbham without the tip is considered of no value, as the conductor-type value is lost in it.
If dharbam is cut & collected on the Avani Amavasya day (falls during 15th August & 15th Sept) it can be retained for usage for one full year. Also, if cut on the Masi Amavasya day then also one can use it for full year. There is a specific slokha for cutting dharbam (the holy grass) that is to be recited while cutting it; I give below the same for readers to know. If Dharbam is obtained from a Brahmin who doesn't know this slokam or versus, the Dharbam is useless, states the Vedic scripts!
virinchena sahotpanna parameShThinisargaja |
nud sarvANi papAni darbha svastikaro bhava ||
My father, Late Shri Ramabathrachariar of Mukkur, fondly called by everyone as Sriraman, has taught me the immense values of Dharbham and its usage. With Sanskrit phonetic sound and vibration, using the Dharbham increases its value. The usage varies according to the functions. It is really a marvel, that in those days of Vedic Era, the Sages & Saints of Hindu land used to control the Magnetic path disturbances, just by simply using this Dharbham! While I was just preparing this article, I received an interesting E-mail from Sri. Vijay Narasimhan, which I give below without editing:
Apart from the above, Dharbham cannot be planted and grown everywhere. It only grows naturally at selective places and available almost in every state in India. Several persons at many occasions tried to cultivate this plant but failed to see its growth. Why, anyone can try this now if it is possible for them to plant & cultivate in their locations! Sorry, it will not grow as one might think. It has its potential soil selection, magnetic path locations and soil conditions that add value to its growth only in selective places! Some learned scholars name it after Saint Vishwaamitra - hence Dharbham is known and also called as "Vishwaamitra". If it is kept for a longer time, say for more than six months, (excepting the one cut during Masi & Avani Amavasya days.) then it loses its value and the power of absorbing the radiation or magnetic path control values.Basically all our Vedas and Upanishads are written in Sanskrit, Which basically is a phonetic based language. So I have a feeling that it is not just the mantras being powerful but mainly due to the effects "Sound" has over a humans body. I feel that our ancestors had mastered the art of sound; phonetics and acoustics as such. So when the Vedas was written and the tone set for its deliverance that had no effect whatsoever on a "Man's" body but it should have definitely had a profound effect on a "Woman's" body that would have been the reason why ladies are not allowed to chant mantra or the Vedas or Upanishads or for that matter any of the slokas that a man recites. When we do Paaraayanam, I feel that the reason why girls are not allowed to do that is basically their physique cannot take the tremendous changes effected due to sustained practice of known as Recital.
This is something that my grandpa's younger brother told me about, when we perform the Kumbabhishekam in a temple, At least 20 learned Vedic scholars would stand near the "kumba jalam" (holy water kept in the copper or brass vessel) and holding a "Dharbam", one end in their hand and other end in the water would recite all the slokas need or rather do the "Japam" - I think this is because "Dharbam" is a very good conductor of acoustic vibrations - When this happens you can surely find the difference in the water's state before and after such a japam. The reason why i am saying this has reference to my stating that Sanskrit is a phonetic based language and "Sound and Acoustics" does really change things.
Our ancestors would have done lot of research into acoustics management resulting in they mastering the art of sound and acoustics and using them to both, their constructive and destructive benefits. Again this is purely my and only my own opinion.
Keep up the good work.
Thanks and Regards - Vijay Narasimham
Dharbham cannot just be plucked straight or cut on any day; There is a specific Slokha given above, that is to be recited before cutting it; That too it can be cut only on the day next to Full Moon - known as Krishna Paksha Pradamai. A Dharbham without its tip portion is not to be used for making a Ring like item known as "Pavithram".
A word of caution for the new users of this Dharbai / Dharbam. It is sharper than a blade! The edges are so sharp, it might even hurt & cut your palm if handled carelessly, that you'll notice only when you find blood oozing from your palm! Yes, you'll not feel the pain while injuring, but later one feels it. Only when it is wet, you can twist it to the form you need to make the called Pavithram or Bugnams.
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Also check the article 'A Blade of Grass' here:
http://www.ibiblio.org/sripedia/srir.../msg00142.html
रत्नाकरधौतपदां हिमालयकिरीटिनीम् ।
ब्रह्मराजर्षिररत्नाढ्यां वन्दे भारतमातरम् ॥
To her whose feet are washed by the ocean, who wears the Himalayas as her crown, and is adorned with the gems of rishis and kings, to Mother India, do I bow down in respect.
--viShNu purANam
amazing information here. please continue your kind work.
btw sir can you post an english translation for the slokam that should be said before cutting the dharbham ? thank you in advance.
virinchena sahotpanna parameShThinisargaja |
nud sarvANi papAni darbha svastikaro bhava ||
namaste Flabber.
The translation of the shloka is as follows:
virinchena sahotpanna parameShThi nisargaja |
nud sarvANi pApAni darbha svastikaro bhava ||
This grass is so ancient that it was born along with the Creator BrahmA himself and is capable of relieving us of all sins through appropriate prAyaschitta karmAs, says the aforesaid sloka.
virinchena--along with Brahma, ViShNu, Shiva; sahotpanna--simultaneously;
parameShThi--supreme; nisargaja--born, produced at creation.
darbha--may this darbha (which has such greatness); nud--drive away;
sarvANi pApAni--all kinds of sins; svastikaro bhava--cause welfare and success.
There are other shlokas with meanings, chiefly from the VaiShNava POV given in this link:
A blade of grass
http://saranagathi.org/blogs/sadagop...lade-of-grass/
रत्नाकरधौतपदां हिमालयकिरीटिनीम् ।
ब्रह्मराजर्षिररत्नाढ्यां वन्दे भारतमातरम् ॥
To her whose feet are washed by the ocean, who wears the Himalayas as her crown, and is adorned with the gems of rishis and kings, to Mother India, do I bow down in respect.
--viShNu purANam
Dr S Radhakrishnan, in his work 'Indian Philosophy' while writing his commentary on samkhya states about the three gunas '..The three gunas are never separate. They support one another and intermingle with one another. They are closely related as the flame, the oil and the wick of a lamp. They constitute the very substance of prakrti. All things are composed of the three gunas, and the differences of the world are traced to the predominance of the different gunas....(vol 2 page263) '.
Is samkhya which was first mentioned in Svetasvatra Up, and also finds its mention in Gita,trying to tell us that sat is neutron, tamas is proton and electron is rajas.
Rajas is activity, Tamas is inertia and sat is neutral.
Is it that I am reading too much of meaning of the above.
thanks Saidevo sir for the translation.
come to think of it the 3 fundamental particles nowadays according to particle physicists are upquark, downquark and electrons. protons and neutrons are the combinations or the upquarks and downquarks. but there are so many fundamental particles according to quantum physics, so attaching the 3 gunas to fundamental particles seems quite difficult. i'm not sure. science is still not so sure about the most fundamental particles of matter or anti-matter, understanding gravity etc.. we still have a long way to go.
this is interesting. I love particle physics and astronomy. I think I should start to learn sanskrit so that it would be of good help for understanding.
Namaste !
So, that is sAnkhya
BrahmA = rAjasic creator ----- represents proton
Vishnu = sAttvic nurturer, maintainer, preserver ----- represents neutron
Mahesh = destroyer which requires usage of tamas ----- represents electron, (although the very act of destruction of avidyA - ignorance is all-auspicious , done in All-auspicious Shiv form )
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So THAT was the source of what my childhood friend was talking about :
God exists in eveything, even atoms and molecules (She was a very good all-round student, and learnt a lot of Vedic things from her father)
BhahmA is proton, Vishnu is neutron and Shiva is electron.
Jai Sri KRSNa
Gurur BrahmA Gurur Vishnu Gurur Devo MaheshwarA
Guru sAkshAt ParaBrahman
tasmai Shri Guruve namah
Last edited by smaranam; 25 March 2010 at 07:13 AM. Reason: paraphrased sAnkhya
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