from akkadia : epic of ishtar and izdubar from babylon : hakaltha from chaldea : sifrala from india : amarangasutradhara , mahabharata , mahavira of bhavabhuti , ramayana , rig veda , samar , samarangana sutradhara , vaimanika sastra , vaimanika shastra ( see critical study of vymanika shastra in reading list section for refutation ) , yajurveda , yantra sarvasva from tibet : dzyan unknown : university of chandrigarh documents giants the following are excerpts from archived articles from the new york times .