Re: [tied] Vimana-s

Anthony Appleyard wrote:-

> When discussion gets fringe-ish, ufology sometimes creeps in,
> including a tendency to cultism about supposed old Indian flying
> craft called vimana-s. I have a very down-to-earth explanation for
> the word and the idea, and perhaps this will shoot down some fringe-
> type discussion before it happens ...

--- "Âàäèì Ïîíàðÿäîâ" <ponaryad@...> wrote:

> As long as I know, <vimana> is a common Hindi word for the airplane
> either. Vadim Ponaryadov

I was told that there are 3 Hindi words for aircraft:-
(1) [hava_i_ jaha_z] (which is also the Urdu word) = "air device".
[hava_] = "air" came from Arabic.
(2) [va_yuya_na] = Sanskrit for "wind traveller".
(3) [vima_na].

But I knew one Indian who told me that in his word usage [va_yuya_na]
= "aircraft" and [vima_na] = "UFO".

A year or two ago there in India there was an incident with an
ordinary real airliner, and UK TV showed an Indian government man
speaking about it, probably in Hindi, and in his speech I clearly
heard the word "vima_na".