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SPECIAL EDITION: Proveen Mohan, The Forgotten Temples of India

Earth Ancients

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The Ancient Vamanas

There's the ancient flying craft written about in Vedas, which are Vamanas. Do you have any actual carved evidence of a true flying Vamanas? Yes. I mean, I did find a few of them, but recently I went to this temple called Sri Ramgavana. It actually shows about eight different Vamanas carved. They don't have wings. They're conical shape. They're shaped like flying pyramids still. So it would still be completely possible for them to be flying machines. If you take a multi-stage rocket, for example, you would see the same thing. The only thing is that it's just too narrow, that's all

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