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Select Chapter RUKMA VIMAANA "Atha Rukma Vimaana Nirnayaha" Next the principles of Rukma Vimaana. Maharshi Bharadwaaja: Bodhaananda Vritti: ☞ "Rukmascha" Sootra 1. "Rukma too" This vimaana is of golden colour. Therefore it is called Rukma vimaana, Rukma meaning gold. The Rukma should be made out of Raajaloha only. By duly processing, Raajaloha can be made to assume golden colour. That metal should be used for the vimaana. "Yaana-Bindu" says, "After first producing golden colour for Raajaloha, the vimaana should be formed." "Varna-sarvasva" mentions the colouring process: Praana-kshaara or ammonium chloride 4 parts, wild Bengal gram 32 parts, shashakanda (or lodhra?) benzoin? 18 parts, naaga or lead 20 parts, sea-foam 16 parts, maakshika or iron pyrites 6 parts, panchaanana or iron 20 parts, paara or mercury 15 parts, kshaara- traya or 3 kinds of salt: natron, salt-petre, borax, 28 parts, pancha

Select Chapter Chapter 6.1 Sundaala is described by Lallachaarya: The sundaala should be installed. for using the oil fumes and steam fumes for the motion of the vimaana. There are. varieties of ksheera vrikshaas or milk-trees according to shaastraas. Vata or banyans, manjoosha or madder root, maatanga or citron?, panchashaakhee (five branched), shikhaavalee (crested), taamra sheershnee (copper- crested), brihatkumbhee (big bellied), mahishee, ksheeravallaree, shona parnee (crimson- leaved), vajramukhee, and ksheerinee (milky). From these the ooze or milk should be collected, and in the proportion of 3, 5, 7, 10, 11, 8, 7, 4, 7, 30, 12, filled in a vessel. Then granthi metal, naaga or lead, vajra, bambhaarika, vynateya, kanduru, kudapa, and kundalotpala, these in equal parts should be filled in the vessel in equal proportion to the milk contents, and boiled with 92 degree heat. Then the molten liquid should be filled in the milk-cloth machine, and churned. When cooled and p

Select Chapter SIXTH CHAPTER 6.1 Atha Jaatyadhikaranam: Varieties of Vimaanas. Maharshi Bharadwaaja: ☞ Jaati tryvidhyam Yugabhedaad Vimaanaanaam. Sootra 1. "Three types according to changing Yugas." Bodhaananda Vritti: According to the differences in yugas, there are three different types of planes: Having dealt with the constituent mechanical parts of the Vimaana, we shall now deal with the Vimaanas according to their different classes. The sootra indicates that there are different types of planes, and that they are of 3 types. In the Krita Yuga, Dharma or Righteousness was four-footed, that is, it was four-square, fully established, all paramount, and it was adhered to implicitly by men. The men were inherently noble-born and were possessed of remarkable powers. Without needing to go through yogic discipline to attain special powers, or practise mantras which secured extraordinary results, the men of that yuga, merely by their devotion to dharma, b

Select Chapter Chapter 5.4 Rudantee-mani is explained in "Mani Prakarana": Kshaaratraya or natron, salt-pare, borax, aanjanika or eye-black powder, kaanta or sun crystal, sajjeeka, vara or sodium chloride, karna or oxide of arsenic, cowrie shells, maakshika or iron pyrites, sharkara or granite grains, sphaatika or alum, kaamsya or bell- metal, mercury, taalakasatva or yellow orpiment, gyra or marking nut, ruruka, rouchyaka, kudupa, garada or aconite, panchamukha metal, shingara or iron dross, and shundolika or great leaved caledium, these 21 articles, purified, and filled in aanika crucible, placed in shouktika furnace and boiled to 103 degrees, and cast into maniyantra mould, becomes a fine rudantee crystal. Ruchika mani also is explained in Maniprakarana: Sea-foam, chamaree cat's nail and mouth bones, steel, paarthiva, granite grains, shilaarasa or liquid amber, mercury, praana-kshaara or ammonium chloride, alum, naaga, cowrie, maakshika or iron pyrites, s