AFOVA New Letter 2 of Year 2021

Section 7 – Panorama CV 2 No. 02 / 2021 Page 257 of 332 9 Vaimanika Shastra Wg Cdr B S Sudarshan Genre: Ancient Wisdom n 28 June 1951, The then Maharajah of Mysuru inaugurated the International Sanskrit Research Centre in Mysuru. Chief Minister of Mysuru State Sri C K Reddy was in attendance. G R Josyer was the Director of that Research Centre. The guests were shown all the rare collections of Sanskrit scriptures and literature, painstakingly gathered from various sources. It was indeed an impressive collection. But there was one small handwritten note book which surprised them the most. What were the contents of that book? The title of the book was “Vaimanika Shastra of Maharishi Bhardwaj” For the guests or to the audience this was a strange title and they had never heard about it before. What further surprised them was, the person who brought this book from Bangalore, informed them that this is the first of the collection of 22 such notebooks all handwritten by one Venkatachala Shastri as dictated by Anekal Subbaraya Shastri. The book contained 6000 lines in Sanskrit with thousands of Shlokas in Sanskrit. What was the reference scripture for such a mammoth literary work? There was none. This knowledge was verbatim transferred by Maharshi Bharadhwaj to Subbaraya Shastri through 'psychic channeling’ that was what was told to the amused audience. G R Josyer subsequently translated this book in Sanskrit to English. The date mentioned in the first notebook is 1/8/1918 and the last book has the date of 23/8/1923. O