THE Vimanas

Vimana are a type of ancient flying craft said to possess lights and powerful weapons that appear in Hindu texts and Sanskrit epics. The crafts are described as flying chariots used by gods and demons for transportation around the skies. Many accounts of the Vimana exist and the descriptions bare many similarities to the image of spacecraft we see today in science fiction films. An account in the Sanskrit Samarangana Sutradhara says that the Vimana were constructed using light materials and that they had mercury fuelled engines that allowed them to fly.