TRIPURA VIMANA
Bodhaananda Vritti:
Having explained the vimaanas commencing from Shakuna to
Simhikaa, Tripura vimaana will now be dealt with.
This vimaana has 3 enclosures, or aavaranas or tiers. Each
aavarana is called "Pura." As it consists of 3 aavaranas it is called
"Tripura" vimaana. It is operated by the motive power generated by
solar rays.
Narayana also says:
The vimaana which naturally can travel on land, sea, and in
the sky by alteration of its structure is called Tripura Vimaana.
It has got 3 parts. The first part can travel on land. The
second part can travel under and over water. The 3rd part travels in the sky.
By uniting the 3 parts by means of keelakas, the plane can be made to travel in
the sky. The plane is divisible into 3 parts so that it might travel on land,
sea, or air. The construction of the 1st part is now explained. Tripura vimaana
should be made out of Trinetra metal only.
Trinetra loha is explained by Shaakataayana:
Jyotishmatee loha 10 parts, kaanta-mitra 8 parts, vajramukha
loha 16 parts, these 3 to be filled in crucible, then adding tankana or borax 5
parts, trynika 7 parts, shrapanikaa 11 parts, maandalika 5 parts, ruchaka or
natron 3 parts, mercury 3 parts, then filled in crucible in padmamukha furnace
and heated to 631 degrees with trimukhee bellows, the resulting liquid, if
poured into cooler, will yield a metal, shining like peacock feather,
unburnable, unbreakable, weightless, impregnable by water, fire, air and heat,
and indestructible.
With that metal the peetha should be prepared, of any
desired size. The following is given as an example. It may be 100 feet wide and
3 feet thick, round or square. Leaving 20 feet on the western side, at
intervals of 10 feet 80 spots should be marked for wheeled boats. 80 feet long,
3 feet wide, 5 feet high boat shaped dronies or containers should be fixed on
the marked lines. Three feet wide openings should be made in the top of the
dronies, so as to raise the wheel inside them quickly and cover them
underneath. There should be fittings which enable the wheels to be lowered on
land, and raised and covered underneath when going in water. The wheels should
have axle rods with fittings to attract electric power. The axle rods should be
2½ feet long and 1 foot thick. The wheels should be 3 feet wide and 1 foot
thick, have, 5, 6, or 7 spokes, fixed in the rims, and covered with musheeka up
to 4 inches from the edge. Holes with glass coverings should be made in all the
wheels. These 12 wheels, or 8, or 6, or 4, should be fixed inside the boat-like
structure. For transmitting power wires made of somakaanta loha should be fixed
in the holes made in the wheels. In the middle of each wheel electric aaghaata
keelakaas should be fixed, and in them chhidraprasaarana keelakas. Over all the
chakradronee boats, copper wire pairs should be fixed on both sides, and in the
joints of the wheels. Rods should be attached to the wires so that power could
be drawn from the wires and passed to the top of the wheels. And power should
be passed to the wires underneath the wheels. In climbing hills, and going down
slopes, by adjusting the power at the top or the bottom of the wheels, smooth
progress is made possible. By adjusting the necessary keelakas it is possible
to accelerate the speed, or in going down, to restrain the flow of the current,
and put brake on excess speed.
For attracting power from the generator a naala or pipe with
wires should be fixed at the front of the peetha through 5 faced wheel
keelakas, and the wires should be connected to the fittings at the top and bottom
of the wheels, with glass cups.
In order to put covering over the boat formations, pillars
should be fixed between each boat line, and covered with mica sheets, as per
architectural rules.
"Shuddhhaambaraattadhhi."
"Out of pure
mica alone"
Bodhaananda Vritti:
The vimaana should be
made out of pure mica alone.
Mica is described in "Dhatu sarvasva ". There are
four kinds of mica, white mica, red mica, yellow mica, and black mica. The
white mica has 16 varieties. Red mica has 12 varieties. The yellow mica has 7
varieties. And the black mica has 15 varieties. Thus there are 50 varieties in
all.
Shownakeeya also says:
We shall now describe the nature of abhraka or mica. They
are of 4 castes, like brahmin, kshatriya, vysya, and sudra. They are of 50
varieties. The brahmin mica has 16 varieties. The kshatriya mica has 12
varieties. The vysya mica has 7 varieties. And the sudra mica has 15 varieties,
totalling 50 in all. Their names are as follows. The brahmin mica varieties are
ravi, ambara, bhraajaka, rochishmaka, pundareeka, virinchika, vajragarbha,
koshambara, sowvarchala, somaka, amritanetra, shytyamukba, kuranda, rudraasya,
panchodara and rukmagarbha. The kshatriya varieties are shundeeraka, shambara,
rekhaasya, owdumbara, bhadraka, panchaasya, amshumukha, raktanetra, manigarbha,
rohinika, somaamshaka, and kourmika. The vysya varieties are krishnamukha,
shyaamarekha, garalakosha, panchadhaara, ambareeshaka, manigarbha, and
krownchaasya. The shoodra varieties are gomukha, kanduraka, showndika, mugdhaasya,
vishagarbha, mandooka, thailagarbha, rekhaasya, parvanika, raakaamsuka,
praanada, drownika, raktabandhaka, rasagraahaka, vranahaarika .
Out of these, pundareeka from the 1st class, rohinika from
the second, panchadhaara from the third, and drownika from the 4th class are
good for use in constructing the vimaana. These should first be purified as per
rules.
The process of purification is given in "Samskaara
Ratnaakara": skandhaaraka or salt of roitleria tinctoria?, shaaranika or
rubus salt?, pinjulee or yellow orpiment?, cowries, borax, kaakajanghaa or wild
liquorice?, moss, rowdrikaa, salt-petre, douvaarika, shambara or benzoin, and
phosphorus. These should be separately filled in the smelter. The decoctions
should be filled in glass vessels. The mica is to be purified with each one of
these.
The mica is to be powdered, put in skandhaavaara acid in
smelting vessel. It should be boiled for 3 days in fire, and for 3 days in
electric heat. Then take the liquid and put it in a bronze vessel, pour in
shaaranika acid and keep it in sun for 3 days. Then add pinjulee acid and keep
buried in earth for 5 days. Afterwards add cowri acid, and boil in bhoodhara
yantra for one day. Then add mustard, and adding borax acid and burning arjuna,
myrabolan wood, place it in brown-barked acacia cinders for 3 days. Then add
wild liquorice acid and expose it to the full moon rays on the 14th and 15
days. The mica is to be then taken out and washed in hot water. Then add wild
corn, and pouring in moss acid place it under earth for 6 days. Then take out
the mica, add roudri acid, place the vessel in a big fire-place, and burn in 64
feet of dried cowdung. Next taking out the mica put it in sesamum oil for 1½
days, and expose to the sun from morning to sundown. Then take out the mica,
wash it clean, put in bronze vessel with salt-petre solution with dattoori or
yellow thistle seeds, place it in a heap of burning kundalee or mollugo stricta
leaves. Then take out the mica, add dourvaarika acid and bake for a day with
hay-fire. Then put the mica in benzoin acid for 3 days. Next add one-fourth as
much of camphor, and placing it in the churning machine, churn for a day. Then
placing it in Simhaasya crucible cook with boiling water. Add ranjaka or
phosphorus acid, 3 palas or 12 tolas of tankana or borax, 12 tolas of lime, 4
tolas of soorana root or tacca, karkotaka 20 tolas, vrishala or onion 28 tolas,
koorma-tankanaka 8 palas or 32 tolas, rouhinaka or red sandal 40 tolas,
shambara 80 tolas, muchukunda 12 tolas. These cleaned and filled in the
crucible, and placed in simhamukha furnace filled with charcoal, and melted
with 800 degrees heat will yield a metal shining like a precious stone, very
light, unbreakable, unburnable and indestructible.
With that the vimaana
is to be constructed.
We shall now consider the parts of the vimaana: 2 feet thick
and 3 feet high pillars, painted in different colours and adorned with
pictures, should be prepared, and 80 of them should be fixed in the spaces
between the boats. On the pillars 10 feet wide pattikas or sheets, and of the
same length as the boats, should be fitted with screws, and two-faced hinges.
In order to accommodate crew and passengers of the vimaana,
and store luggage, rooms and partitions should be constructed with decorations.
In order to provide secrecy, doors should be provided as also ventilators.
Revolving wheels with necessary fittings and switches should be fixed so that
by putting on a switch the rooms would revolve. Wheels should be fixed in the
lanes between the boats. Air-pipes with wheels should be fixed. In order to
ensure supply of air, tubes with wheels, and bellows with wide mouths, leaving
20 junctional centres, should be fixed. In the front, two faced tubular wheels
should be fixed to dispel the air downwards or upwards or side ways, at 30 feet
intervals from the aavrutta or enclosed pradesha of the vimaana. At the bottom
of the vimaana metal balls with chain-wirings should be fixed for operations in
the course of flight.
The 1st floor will be 7 feet high, with the roofing duly
fixed with nalikaa-keelakas with 10 feet intervals. With 20 feet interval in
the middle, wires with beaked ends should be attached to each keela. The
fittings should be such as to enable opening and shutting like an umbrella. The
cloth covering like a tent top should cover the entire floor.
The second aavarana should be made of trinetra metal
"Taduparichaanyaha."
"Another
above it."
Bodhaananda Vritti:
Having described the first floor above, now the second floor
is being described. The second floor should be slightly smaller than the first
floor. If the first floor is 100 feet wide, the second should be 80 feet wide.
The floor should be 80 feet wide, and 3 feet thick, and made of trinetra metal.
Its fittings should be like those on the first floor, and be duly connected
with electric wiring from the generator.
In order to take the vimaana through water, first the wheels
at the bottom used for land route should be drawn up, and in order to prevent
water coming up, the bottom should be completely covered up with ksheeree-pata
or milk cloth. Four inches thick metal rods, 12 inches long, to which wheels 1
foot wide and ½ foot thick, and shaped like frog claws, are fixed, should be
adjusted on both sides of the dronee or boat lines. Similarly in the front
portion of the vimaana, on both sides two such wheeled rods should be fixed in
order to divert water, By switching on power the main wheels will revolve,
making all the wheels revolve, and expelling water, and aiding the progress of
the vimaana forward.
For the supply of air inside, on the sides of the 2nd floor,
should be fixed, air pipes 6 inches wide and made of ksheeree pata or milk
cloth, cleaned with acid, from the partitions in the 1st floor upto the top of
the vimaana, their tops being covered with revolving metal covers, with air
sucking pumps worked by power. The air so pumped into the pipes will fill both
the second and 1st floors, and provide air comfort for the crew and passengers
of the vimaana.
Above the roofing of the two floors all round, spreading out
and closing up keelakas should be fixed. So as to separate the floors, foldable
chain fittings should be fixed at 10 feet intervals. Wires from the electrical
generator should be connected to the fittings, so that by their operation the floors
will be separated, and the separated floors simultaneously move on land and in
the air.
In the 2nd floor also cabins, partitions and seating and
doors and windows should be constructed as attractively as in the first floor.
The enclosing walls of the floor should be 7 feet high from its peetha, and
half a foot thick. In order to draw electric current from the third floor two
poles should be erected in the back room with transmitter from which wires will
pass the current to the various fixtures on the floor.
At the front of the vimaana a mast should be erected. At its
foot two bells made of bronze should be fixed in order to indicate time to the
crew and passengers. In every room on the floor alarm chains, as in railways,
should be fixed so that the occupants may call for help in times of danger. On
hearing the call the crew will rush to the room and attend to the requirements
of the passengers. Sound transmitter, image transmitter, direction indicator,
time-piece, and cold and heat gauges should be installed on either side of the
floor, with necessary cable connections.
Then in order to protect against excessive wind currents,
storms, and heat-waves, three machines should be installed at the back, on
either side, and on both sides of the turret.
They are described in "Yantra Sarvasva" as
three-faced air protection yantra, solar-blaze conditioning yantra, and rain
storm protection yantra. Their construction is given here as per shaastras.
First, three-faced air force reducing yantra. It must be
made of Vaaruna Metal:
Vaaripanka, vishaari, borax, jaalikaa, mango, vishodara,
vaaripanchaka, kshaarasaptaka, kshona, manjula or madder root, godhara,
vaarunaasyaka, paarvana or chlorodendrum phlomoides, aruna, kaakatunda,
bhoodhara, vaarunaabhraka, natron, kundaaleemukha, lodhra or benzoin,
varikudmala or water flower, shaarikaarasa, panchabaanasahodara, lead 5 parts,
soorana or tacca, honey 8 parts, vaata, kankanikodara, Sunda, anjana or
eye-black, kukkutaandaka, khaadira or brown-barked acacia, loddhruka, simhikaa-mukha,
koormajangha, and masoorika or lentil, all these to be cleaned, and filled in
crucible, placed in padmamukha furnace, and heated to 700 degrees with 5 faced
bellows, poured into equifying yantra and churned, will yield a light,
smokecoloured, impregnable vaaruna metal.
Then it is to be purified, according to
"Kriyaasaara." First, place it in shundeera acid (great-leaved
laburnum?) and boil for 3 days, and then with kuttinee yantra beat it into flat
pattis, make thick decoction of soorana root or tacca, and smear it to 1 inch
thickness on it and heat it for 3 yaamaas or 9 hours. Then mritsaara, vaagura,
opium, should be boiled together for a day. The concoctions will become red
like lac. The metal patti should be smeared with it and heated in the taapana
yantra for a yaama or 3 hours. Then keep it in the sun for a day. Then kantaka
or small caltrap, heranda, dhavalodara, and chaaraka, and gingelly should be
mixed together, and the oil extracted. The metal should be smeared with it and
kept in the sun for 3 days, and then heated in the sun for a day. Then paste
the gum of kankola or cubeb pepper 1 inch thick, and stick into it thumb-sized
vaatakuthaaraka manis, place in furnace of brown-barked acacia and cool for 9
hours. The metal will become like diamond. Out of this a cover should be made
for the vimaana, with necessary fittings for spreading over and folding up,
connected with electric wires drawn from inside the vimaana. The charge of
electricity will permeate all over, as well as the manis on the pattika. Three
serpent-faced keelakas should be fixed. These will suck in the fierce wind as
it blows, and belch it out to the upper regions, so that the wind force on the
vimaana will be curbed, and danger therefrom averted .
The rain storm protection yantra should be made of crowncha
metal. Says "Kriyaasaara", The metal that can destroy the
dravapraanana force of water is krowncha loha. Therefore the varshopasamhaara
yantra should be made out of that alone.
Krowncha loha is described in "Mantra Sarvasva" as
follows: Jyotirmukha or rose-coloured redwort 8 parts, tryambaka or copper 11
parts, humsa-tunda 12 parts, camphor 7 parts, tankana or borax 8 parts, sand 4
parts, choorna or lime 12 parts, owrwaara or cucumber?, ruruka 5 parts, patola
or snake-gourd 27 parts, and vaardhyushika or sea-foam 1 part, these to be
cleaned and placed in crucible, and heated in padma furnace to 512 degrees with
3 faced bellows, poured into churning yantra, and then cooled, will yield, a
metal, honey-coloured, light, strong, rain-storm antidote, and
heat-impregnated. Extracting oil from the seeds of basil, rukma or yellow
thistle, punkha, red wort, trijataa or bael, and pancha-kantaki or 5 thorny
trees, the metal should be smeared and heated. The metal is to be made into
pattis with kuttinee yantra, make pipes out of them 3 feet wide of the same
height as the vimaana, and fix them properly all around. In front of the
vimaanaa-avarana also 3 feet high pipes should be fixed with keelakas or
hinges. The pipes should be smeared with chana or gram decoction 1 inch thick.
On that vajragarbha decoction or triangular spurge milk should be smeared
thrice, which will make it hard as diamond. On the pipes, at 12 inches
intervals, sinjeeta vajra should be smeared and heated by fire. Then thumb-size
panchaasya manis which will counteract the effects of water, should be imbedded
on the smeared pipes. Then the pipes with proper fittings at both ends should
be fixed on the 8 sides of the vimaana. Wires proceeding from the electric
generator should be taken through glass tube and connected to the pipes. When
the current passes through them to the panchaasya mani, the concentrated force
in it blending with the electric force will fiercely oppose the forces of the
rain storm and disturb the atmosphere so as to dilute and weaken the storm, and
render it ineffective. Therefore the varshopahaaraka yantra should be fixed on
the vimaana.
Sooryaathapopasamhaara yantra or the burning-sun protection
machine:
It is to be made out of the aathapaashana loha. It is explained
in Kriyaasaara: Aatapaashana loha protects against burning sun. Therefore
Aatapa samhaara yantra should be made with that metal. "Lohatantra"
describes that metal. Owrvaarika, kowshika, gaaruda, soubhadraka, chaandrika,
sarpanetra, sringaataka, sowmyaka, chitraloha, vishvodara, panchamukha,
virinchi, these twelve metals should be put in equal parts in padma-moosha
crucible. Borax 7 parts, chowlika 5 parts, cowree salt 6 parts, kunjara 12
parts, sand 9 parts, camphor 4 parts, cardamom 16 parts, powshnika 10 parts,
should be added to them, and placing it in nalikaa furnace heated to 725
degrees with mooshakaasya bhastrika bellows. Then the liquid should be put in,
the mixing machine, and afterwards poured into the cooler. The resulting alloy
will be light, orange coloured, heat proof, and unbreakable, for the making of
sooryaathapopasamhaara yantra, after being duly purified, says Yantrasarvasva.
Kriyaasaara explains its purification:
Ashwaththa or sacred fig tree, mango, plantain, aala or
banyan, baadava or peepul, trimukhee, trijata or bael, gunja or wild liquorice,
sherinee, onurberah, patolika or snake gourd, the bark of these trees should be
powdered, should be filled in vessel with 10 times as much water, and boiled
down to one-tenth measure.
Then taking the 11 kinds of salts, bidaa-lavana or
table-salt, syndhava or rock-salt, oushara or saline earth, budila salt,
maacheepatra salt or solanum indicum?, praanakshaara panchaka, or 5 urine salts
or ammonium chloride? and saamudra or sea-salt, these eleven salts, should be
placed in dravaakarshana yantra or dehydration machine and boiled. Taking the
previous decoction, add half as much this decoction, put the aatapaashana metal
in it and boil for 5 days, then wash with water, and anoint with honey, and place
in hot sun for 3 days, then wash it, and use it for producing the yantra.
First pattikas should be made from the metal with kuttinee
yantra, 2 feet square, or circle, and 3 feet thick. On that 3 pipes, 1 foot
wide and 5 feet high, should be fixed. Three triangular glass bowls should be
placed underneath the pipes. In each of them one prastha or seer of
somadraavaka or white acacia juice should be filled. In each vessel a heat
proof crystal of the 121st class should be cleaned with acid and placed. Then
an umbrella shape 10 feet wide should be made out of the metal, and fixed so as
to cover the 3 pipes, with revolving keelakas fixed halfa-foot underneath the
umbrella cover. Above that 3 kalasas, 3 feet wide and shaped like cooking
vessel, should be fixed. At their centre circular chaalapattikas should be
fixed. Upon that three cold-diffusing crystals of the 185th number, should be
fixed. On them three black mica wheels should be fixed. They should be covered
with chandrikaa toolikaa or white silk cotton. On that should be placed a
vessel with acid of manjoosha or madder root, in which a heat-resisting crystal
is immersed. In the front part the toothed mica wheels fitted with
bhraamanee-danda keelakas should be fixed. And in order to revolve that keelaka
3 wheeled keelaka should be fixed. By its motion the umbrella will revolve
disturbing the heat wave. Then the heat-absorbing mica wheels will absorb the
heat, which, pas-sing down to the madder-root acid, will become cold and get
extinguished. And the crew and passengers will be saved from its evil effects.
The Third Floor:
In erecting the 3rd floor of the vimaana, the same procedure
as was followed in erecting the second floor should be followed. Like the
fixtures in the flooring of the 2nd aavarana and roofing of the 1st aavarana,
fixtures should be put in connecting the roofing of the 2nd aavarana and the
peetha of the 3rd aavarana. The peetha of the 3rd floor should be 5 feet less
than the peetha of the 2nd floor, and be square or circular like it. The cabins,
doors, walls, and furniture on the 3rd floor should be on the same lines as in
the 2nd floor. In the north eastern part of the 3rd floor, a cabin should be
prepared for housing the electric generator. It should be made out of somaanka
loha.
Somaanka loha is explained in "Lohatantra" as
follows: Lead, panchaasya, and copper, 7 parts each, Chumbaka or loadstone 9
parts, nalikaa or Indian spikenard bark, sharaanika or rubus salt?, and borax,
in equal parts, to be filled in sarpamukha crucible, and placed in naagakunda
furnace, filled with coal, and heated to 353 degrees with shashamukha bellows.
After melting the liquid should be filled in the mixer, and after churning be
poured out to cool. The resulting metal will be a fine, light,
electricity-impregnated somaanka loha. Out of that metal pattikas should be
made with kuttinee yantra, or hammering yantra.
A cradle-like vessel, 3 feet wide and 8 feet high, should be
made out of it, and be covered with a pattika with hinges. On the eastern and
northern part of the cover two holes 1½ feet wide should be made. The cradle
should be fixed in the electric cabin. Below the holes, two peethas should be
fixed in the cradle. Two vessels 2 feet wide and 4 feet high should be
prepared. Eight goblets 6 inches wide and 1 foot high should be made, and 4
each should be placed in the two vessels, in their four corners. In the middle
of the 4 goblets, a big goblet should be placed so as to contact all the four.
2 vessels covered with patties having 5 holes should be placed inside the 2
holes in the cradle cover. Teethed churners 5 inches in size, 8 inches in
height, like those of sugarcane machines, 8 in number, should be placed in the
8 goblets in the two vessels in the cradle. 2 churners, bigger than these
should be placed in the two central goblets beneath the two holes. Fixtures
should be fixed on the central churner so that by their turning all the other
churners will turn.
The procedure for extracting electricity out of solar rays
is as follows. 8 naalas or tubes should be prepared out of the 192nd kind of
amshupa glass. The naalas should be fixed on the 4 corners of each vessel.
Panchamukhi karnikaas should be placed on them, filled with rukmapunkhaa shana,
and with electric crystals in them. Covering them with the amshupaa glass
cover, 5 spires should be formed on it. The top of each spire should be like an
open beak, and in it should be inserted sinjeeraka crystal and amshupaa
crystal. On the central spire amshu-mitra mani should be fixed. Above the 4
crystals should be fixed 4 glass tubes made of kiranaakarshana glass, 6 inches
wide and 3 feet high. On them should be carefully fixed 4 feet-wide-mouthed
vessels, acid cleaned. They should be filled with Rudrajataa-vaala or
aristolochia indica linn. Revolving ghutikas should be placed in their centre.
The ghutikaas will attract the solar rays and send them through the tubes. The
crystals in the spire beaks will suck them in. So does the shinjeera crystal
inside, as also the amshu-mitra crystal. The power will be absorbed by the
glass-covering, and sent to the electric crystal. Then the karnikas inside will
receive it and send down to the central tube with force. When the central
churner revolves the other churners also revolve. The power will enter the
acid, and the crystals in it will whirl with great speed, intensifying the
power force to the extent of 1080 linkas. That force should be collected by the
ganapa-yantra in front of the cradle, and stored in the central storage.
The Ganapa-yantra is a machine shaped like Vighneshwara, 1
foot broad, and 3 feet high. From its head a tubular projection like elephant's
trunk, covered with glass and with wires inside should be fixed at the front of
the cradle, and connected to the Ganapa image from the neck to the navel.
Three-inch toothed wheels should be so fixed that a big wheel at the neck of
the image, by force of the current coming through the trunk or proboscis will
whirl, setting the other wheels in motion. A coil of wire should be placed in
the centre. On it a sapta-shashthi shankha or conch called simhikaa should be
placed, with covering made of kravyaada metal. 5 spoonfuls of jeevaavaka acid
(ditamine?) should be filled in the conch, and 217 bhaamukha graamukha manis or
beads should be placed inside. 5 umbrellas, 2 inches wide, should be made, and
5 sun-crystals of the size of big liquorice, should be stuck on them. The
umbrellas should be fixed on the conch, with amshupa glass covering. This
should attract the force of the sun rays, and pass to the crystals on the
umbrellas, making the crystals and the umbrellas whirl with fierce force of
1000 linkas, and the force passing to the acid in the conch and the crystal
inside, will thence pass westwards, and could be transmitted through wires for
any desired use. To measure its exact force a meter should be fixed in, along
with thermometer and other needful equipments.
THE GROUND WHEELS
When the vimaana has to move on the ground, the electric
current is switched on the electric motor in the hub of each wheel, thus
causing the rim to revolve and move the vimaana.
But when entering water the wheels are drawn in by the
movements of toothed segment and the pinion, the latter being revolved by an
electric motor attached to the shaft. The openings in the bottom of the vimaana
are closed by the sliding covers moved by the rack and pinion arrangement, the
pinion being worked by an electric motor.
The movements of the hinged joints of the folding links will
raise or lower the second floor over the first floor.
ELECTRIC GENERATOR
Two jars are placed on the peetha or stand. Each jar
contains five cups filled with acids. Each cup has a churning rod with
gear-wheels connected together. The wheels are revolved by hand while starting,
and by the generated electric power afterwards. A darpana or mirror and
gharshana manis are fixed above the gear wheels. The darpana and the manis
absorb the sun's energy and transmit it to the acid cups. The acids, being
churned, convert the absorbed energy into electric current, which will pass
through the pancha-mukhee naala, or five-way-switch, to different points, and
work the machines there.
THE ELECTRIC MOTOR
The electric motor consists of a loop of fine wire coil,
with a fine wire cage in the centre. The current from the generator is brought
to the wire coil through a glass tube. Suitable wheels are attached to the wire
cage to connect to the churning gears of the generator or the shaft of the
pinion.
The Simhika shankha on the top of the motor contains an acid
and the bhaamukha-graahinee mani or crystal. Five rods with amshupaamitra manis
are fitted to the top of the shankha, and toothed wheels are fitted to these
rods to revolve together and rub against the inner surface of amshupaa mirror
at the top. The solar power absorbed by the mirror is stored in the shankha,
and given out by the bhaamukha graahinee mani to the various motors in the
vimaana.
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