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Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani has equated ISRO’s missiles with Ram’s arrows. He went on to say that what the space research organization is doing in 2017, Ram had already done it back in his day.
Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani was addressing a gathering of engineering students, where he connected science with the mythical tales of Ramayana and shared anecdotes of engineering marvels during Ram’s reign.
Rupani said, “Ram na ek ek teer, ek ek missile haata. Ane ISRO je kaam kare chhe, yeh Bhagwan Ram ye, tyaare chhodta hata. (Every arrow of Ram was a missile. The work that ISRO is doing, Lord Ram used to release those),” reports Indian Express.
Tapan Misra, director of ISRO’s Space Applications Centre, was among those present at the event. Praising the “engineering skills of Lord Ram”, he said: “Bhagwan Ram ne infrastructure saathe jodiye; yeh samayne ne, Ramayan ne toh Ram Setu bridge je Bhaarat ane Sri Lanka ne jodto… Ae Ram Setu, ae vakt ni kalpna karo, ke Ram passe kyaan engineero haase, kevi reeti Ram Setu baniyo haase.
Khiskoli pan pootanu yogdaan aape… Aaje pan loko kahe che, ke Ram Setu na aavshesho che, ane dariya mein ram setu bridge che. Toh Ram Setu te divase Bhagwan Ram ni kalpana thi, ane tyaarna aa badha engineerio ye Ram Setu tatkalik banaiyo haato (If infrastructure is linked to Ram and Ramayan, then imagine what kind of engineers Lord Ram had to build the Ram Setu that links Sri Lanka and India… Even squirrels offered their help in building the bridge… Even today people say that remnants of Ram Setu are in the sea. Ram Setu was the imagination of Ram, and engineers then had built the temporary bridge.”