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Visitors From Elsewhere pages that draw on India, each with the sources shown. Start with Kakudmi and Revati, Pushpaka Vimana, Saubha, the flying city, Vaimanika Shastra.
People · IndiaKakudmi and RevatiA king and his daughter visit the creator god, wait politely through one musical performance, and return to find twenty-seven cycles of four ages have passed on earth. Scholars explain it through Puranic cosmology and note similar tales in Irish and Japanese folklore. What does a man find when his whole world is gone?Objects · IndiaPushpaka VimanaOn the flight home, Rama gives Sita an aerial tour of their own adventure, naming each place they fly over. The Ramayana's Pushpaka is a flying palace-car built by the gods' architect, stolen from the god of wealth by Ravana, and able to go wherever its owner wishes. Who steers it, and where does it land?Objects · IndiaSaubha, the flying cityKing Salva's flying city in the Mahabharata is said to appear in the sky, on the ground and on the water, sometimes within the same battle, raining weapons on Krishna's city. Krishna's arrows seem to do nothing; scholars see an epic sky-fortress, not a memory of technology. What finally breaks it?Texts · India (20th century)Vaimanika ShastraIts author said the whole text came to him through psychic contact with a sage who lived thousands of years earlier, yet it was dictated in the 1910s and 20s, the era of World War I aviation. Presented as an ancient science of aircraft, it was tested by engineers in 1974. What did they find?
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