Ancient
nuclear blasts - By Alexander Pechersky
The
great ancient Indian epic, the Mahabharata,
contains numerous legends about the powerful force of a
mysterious weapon.
The
archaeological expedition, which carried out excavations near
the Indian settlement of Mohenjo-Daro in the beginning of the
1900s, uncovered the ruins of a big ancient town. The town
belonged to one of the most developed civilizations in the
world. The ancient civilization existed for two or three
thousand years. However, scientists were a lot more interested
in the death of the town, rather than in its prosperity. Researchers tried to explain the reason of the town's destruction with
various theories. However, scientists did not find any
indications of a monstrous flood, skeletons were not numerous,
there were no fragments of weapons, or anything else that could
testify either to a natural disaster or a war. Archaeologists
were perplexed: according to their analysis the catastrophe in
the town had occurred very unexpectedly and it did not last
long.
Scientists
Davneport and Vincenti
put forward an amazing theory. They
stated the ancient town had been ruined with a nuclear blast.
They found big stratums of clay and green glass. Apparently,
archaeologists supposed, high temperature melted clay and sand
and they hardened immediately afterwards. Similar stratums of
green glass can also found in Nevada deserts after every nuclear
explosion.
A
hundred years have passed since the excavations in Mohenjo-Daro.
The modern analysis showed, the fragments of the ancient town
had been melted with extremely high temperature - not less than
1,500 degrees centigrade. Researchers also found the
strictly outlined epicenter, where all houses were leveled.
Destructions lessened towards the outskirts. Dozens of skeletons
were found in the area of Mohenjo-Daro - their radioactivity
exceeded the norm almost 50 times.
The
great ancient Indian epic, the Mahabharata, contains numerous
legends about the powerful force of a mysterious weapon. One of
the chapters tells of a shell, which sparkled like fire, but had
no smoke. "When the shell hit the ground, the darkness
covered the sky, twisters and storms leveled the towns. A
horrible blast burnt thousands of animals and people to ashes.
Peasants, townspeople and warriors dived in the river to wash
away the poisonous dust."
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Modern
people divide the day into 24 hours, the hour - into 60 minutes,
the minute - into 60 seconds. Ancient Hindus divided the day in
60 periods, lasting 24 minutes each, and so on and so forth. The
shortest time period of ancient Hindus made up
one-three-hundred-millionth of a second.
(source: Ancient
nuclear blasts and levitating stones of Shivapur - By Alexander Pechersky
- pravda.ru.com).
For more refer to chapter on Aryan
Invasion Theory and Advanced
Concepts and Hindu
Cosmology. Also
Refer to Vymanika
Shashtra - Aeronautical Society of India.
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Untold secrets - India
– the largest gunpowder source in the world
India’s military technology is history’s greatest ‘hidden’
secret. Official (and Western) portrayal
of Indian military systems in the face of Islamic invaders, Mughal sultanate
and the rise of British imperialism makes out India as a sitting duck with
ill-trained and terrified soldiers, armed with bows and arrows, who were
hopelessly outclassed by the enemy.
Facts being
otherwise, it raises questions about motives for this deliberate wrong
portrayal.
Modern history
credits China with the invention of gunpowder.
Firstly, this is largely based on the work of
a self-confessed
Sinophile
– Needham. With a
dismissive one
sentence,
Needham opines, “On Gunpowder history in India, Oppert (1) was duly exploded by
Hopkins(2).” And Indian history as the world’s largest
producer of gunpowder was swept under the carpet. Needham
conveniently ignores
evidence
like how;
"Jean
Baptiste Tavernier recorded a local tradition in the 1660s that
gunpowder and artillery were first invented in Assam from whence they spread to
China and he mentioned that the Mughal general who conquered Assam brought back
numerous old iron guns captured during the campaign."
Secondly,
Mongol territories extended from Mongolia to the gates
of Vienna and Russia – but not India. How is it that a few
deserters-soldiers could establish the world’s largest gunpowder production
system, so rapidly in non-Mongolian India. But, could not do so in conquered
territories of China, Central Asia, Middle East, West Asia, and Europe.
A 100 years
before Needham, India’s pioneering status in saltpetre was common knowledge.
English publications,
for instance in 1852
and another
in 1860 gave weightage
to the opinion of those who believe that gunpowder was invented in India and
brought by the Saracens from Africa to the Europeans; who improved its
manufacture and made it available for warlike purposes.
Unlike China,
with an odd textual reference or a drawing or a singular artefact, was the
entire industry in India – which remained unrivalled in the history of the
world. Compared to China’s paltry production of gunpowder, India’s widespread
and organized gunpowder production system points towards indigenous development.
There are
reports, that in
“664 an Indian visitor to China reportedly demonstrated the peculiar flamability
of saltpeter and provided instructions on how to locate it (Pacey 1990, 16).”
Tall
tales … thin stories
The deserter
Mongol soldier source seems rather far-fetched considering that Mongol armies
studiously avoided attacking India. India,
the richest economy
of the world
at
that time, known and famous for its wealth, was spared by Genghis Khan! Just why
would history’s foremost looter, invader, pillager spare India?
When Genghis
Khan’s Mongol armies were running rampant, Islamic refugees found shelter in
India, during the reign of Iltutmish. In 1221, Khwarezm-Shah and other Persian
refugees, sought refuge in India, across the Indus into the Punjab, India, from
Genghis Khan’s Mongol armies.
India – the largest gunpowder source in the world
Now, combine saltpetre production with the fact that the heart of the Indian
saltpetre production was in Bihar, which was also the home of the Nalanda
seminary /university.
India’s
gunpowder production system
India was the
largest gunpowder production system –
in the history of the world, till the 20th century. Specifically Bengal and
Bihar regions. Operated by a caste of
peoples called the nuniah, saltpetre
beds supplied the most vital element in gunpowder –
saltpetre. And India
produced virtually all of it.
Especially, Bihar, Bengal, Agra and Tamil Nadu, Andhra and Karanataka regions (Anantapur,
Coimbatore, Guntur, Kurnool). The Guntur Sircar
also manufactured saltpetre on a
commercial scale. A mid 17th century
Royal Society
paper documented
how saltpetre was made in India.
(source:
Indian gunpowder -
2ndlook.wordpress.com). For more refer to chapter on
War in Ancient India.