Originally posted by Anonymous ATS
Gawd...vimanas aren't temple roof tops......what freakin nonsense. I'm an Indian, and believe me, vimanas mean flying vehicles. Even the airport in
hindi means Viman-sthal. Vimana means an air craft!!!!
I note you're from Amsterdam. Hindi may not be your first language so you may have misheard the words. In Hindi, the word for "airport" is
"vAnaspatika" and the word for plane/aircraft is vAyuyAna.
Check it out for yourself: www.wordanywhere.com...
("sthal" is not a word ending in Hindu. In the Germanic languages, yes... not in Hindu.)
...I guess unlike fairy tales we do not speak of flying humans/demons, we describe flying vehicles...which is more believable
Interesting, since there are paintings (this one from the Ramayana) that show demons flying: www.learnnc.org...
And Hanuman flies, and the demon who caught Rama's wife also flew. Then there's the flying horse: doormann.tripod.com/fly_horse.htm ... and many
others.
We must have read different books... mine certainly had tales where demons flew by various means (none of them aircraft.)
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