รามเกียรติ์ อาจเป็นบันทึกสงครามต่างดาว -- วิมานบุษบก อาวุธพรหมาสตร์ และนครลอยฟ้าสามนคร
Summary
The question of whether the Indian epics record a war involving visitors is not new. Western writers have asked it for over half a century, since Erich von Däniken’s Chariots of the Gods sold more than seventy million copies.
The talk opens the actual texts of the Rāmāyaṇa and Mahābhārata and reads them from a space-age vantage.
Among the passages: the Puṣpaka vimāna, which flies without draught animals, responds to its pilot’s intent, and resizes for its passengers.
Key points
The texts are more specific than the popular image
What keeps the question from being frivolous is how detailed the original descriptions are.
The question is older than it looks
This is not an internet theory but a proposal dating from the 1960s.
Reading backwards carries its own risk
We see aircraft because we know aircraft. The ancients may have been describing something else.
Offered as a hypothesis, not a conclusion
The talk asks you to set your usual frame aside long enough to look, not to believe.