About the Book

India from ancient times was the treasure of high level knowledge. We find the lots
of branches of science from very beginning. High level philosophy, medicine and
surgery, mathematics and architecture are few examples.
In this continuation we find a very wonderful text like Vimanasastra.
Ratnapradipika is one of the some very important books related to Vimana-sastra.
This was written by Sage Bharadvaja of ancient times. But it was almost
unavailable. We find only one sutra of this text. Its commentator Bodhananda gives
very useful information about this very important text. Bodhananda made the
commentaries of Vimanasastra and Ansubodhini also. All these three texts were
written by Sage Bharadvaja. Now these all are found incomplete and same with their
commentaries. This Ratnapradipika was about the gems. This was written in sutra
form of ancient Indian writing style.
Ratnapradipika was unavailable till Pt. Subraya Shastri revealed it again. He got
it by divine revelation from his 'preceptor belonging to Himalaya.
The remaining commentary of Ratnapradipika informs that there were at least
seventeen chapters before which are lost but it is hard to find the total number of
chapters.
Current Ratnapradipika has two parts, both parts deals with the descriptions of
making artificial diamonds.
Here in the first part is a very interesting topic about the formation of a machine
which was used for making diamonds. This had seven supporting machines like grinder
and electric hammer etc. Seeing the antiquity of the book description about the use
of electric power is pretty amazing.
With the details of such matter the book will be very interesting for the readers
and indologists, particularly concerned with the study of ancient Indian science &
technology.. Singh, Umesh. (2014). महररर भरददजपणणतद रत‍नपदणरपकद. About the Book
India from ancient times was the treasure of high level knowledge. We find the lots
of branches of science from very beginning. High level philosophy, medicine and
surgery, mathematics and architecture are few examples.
In this continuation we find a very wonderful text like Vimanasastra.
Ratnapradipika is one of the some very important books related to Vimana-sastra.
This was written by Sage Bharadvaja of ancient times. But it was almost
unavailable. We find only one sutra of this text. Its commentator Bodhananda gives
very useful information about this very important text. Bodhananda made the
commentaries of Vimanasastra and Ansubodhini also. All these three texts were
written by Sage Bharadvaja. Now these all are found incomplete and same with their
commentaries. This Ratnapradipika was about the gems. This was written in sutra
form of ancient Indian writing style.
Ratnapradipika was unavailable till Pt. Subraya Shastri revealed it again. He got
it by divine revelation from his 'preceptor belonging to Himalaya.
The remaining commentary of Ratnapradipika informs that there were at least
seventeen chapters before which are lost but it is hard to find the total number of
chapters.
Current Ratnapradipika has two parts, both parts deals with the descriptions of
making artificial diamonds.
Here in the first part is a very interesting topic about the formation of a machine
which was used for making diamonds. This had seven supporting machines like grinder
and electric hammer etc. Seeing the antiquity of the book description about the use
of electric power is pretty amazing.
With the details of such matter the book will be very interesting for the readers
and indologists, particularly concerned with the study of ancient Indian science &
technology.