Did Robots & Artificial Intelligence exist in Ancient India?
A male devotee (Name hidden) asked like this:
“Jai Radhe Krishna! Don’t Reveal My Name. Do Any Puranas Or Other Scriptures Mention Artificial Intelligence Or Robots, Directly Or Indirectly? If So, Will They Replace Our Jobs?”
REPLY:
Why not?
TOI Group had written an article about this long ago.
Let me give a few such details:
(1) The Scriptures like Ramayana, Mahabharatha, etc mentions about automations, Artificial Intelligence, etc.
(2) Vishvakarma is the Engineer among the Gods who do all the Constructions and automations wherever he is invited among the higher worlds.
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(3) Persian scythed chariots, powerful machines to hurl massive boulders existed in ancient times.
(4) As per the Hindu Scriptures, automatons are made by the engineer god Vishwakarma and the sorceress Maya.
(5) As per the Greek Scriptures, automatons are made by the god of technology Hephaestus and the brilliant artisan Daedalus.
(6) Jain texts mention that Ajatasatru’s engineers invented armoured war chariots with spinning blades.
(7) The travelling Greek sage Apollodorus of Tyana observed automated servants and self-propelled carts in the court of a ruler of India.
(8) Greek sage Apollodorus further wrote that India was centuries ahead of Europe in the technologies of distillation and hydraulics.
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(9) The Lokapanatti, a complicated compilation of tales from Burma, says that after Buddha’s death, King Ajatasatru preserved his bodily remains in a hidden chamber under a stupa. These precious relics were guarded by bhuta vahana yantra (spirit movement machines) that were nothing but the robotic warriors with whirling swords.
(10) Flying chariots, synthetic swans, animated servants, giant robots, machines and the like appear in the Mahabharata, Ramayana, Kathasaritsagara, Harivamsa, and other works.
(11) Self-navigating ships appear in Egyptian texts and Homer’s Odyssey;
(12) Android and animal automatons are described in Homer’s Iliad and in Chinese chronicles.
(13) Greek Scriptures tell of automaton guardians in human and animal form defending palaces and treasure. The robots were constructed from plans secretly transported to Pataliputra from Roma-visaya, the Greek-influenced West, by a yantrakara, a robot maker who was originally from Pataliputra.
(14) The automaton soldiers guarded Buddha’s relics until the great Indian emperor Ashoka heard about the secret chamber. Ashoka battled the robots and after he defeated and learned how to control them, they obeyed him. Ashoka did unearth and distribute long-hidden relics of Buddha across the land.
(15) Automated Planes and flying discs were used by the characters of Indian Scriptures for which there were no drivers, but the aircrafts flied automatically just hearing the command given by the traveller (God) while starting the travel.
Thus, Indians were well advanced in the automations and robotics thousands of years ago and advancements such as Robots & Artificial Intelligence exist in Ancient India.
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