Hindus have welcomed Airbus Group giving the Sanskrit name Vahana to its latest project, an electric autonomous flying vehicle platform for individual passenger and cargo transport.

Vahana, a Sanskrit word generally translated as vehicle or carrier, prominently figures in ancient Hindu texts Puranas and is associated with many deities.

Claimed as the “future of urban mobility” and aimed at relieving urban congestion, flight tests of the first Vahana vehicle prototype are slated for the end of 2017.

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Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) on 24th of October 2016, welcomed the usage of Sanskrit terminology from Hindu texts to name such an innovative project. He urged other world corporations to explore the richness of thought offered by Hindu texts and incorporate it in future innovations.

Rajan Zed, who is the President of Universal Society of Hinduism, further said that that Sanskrit, which was known as “the language of the gods”, provided the theoretical foundation of ancient sciences. According to tradition, the self-born God created Sanskrit, which was everlasting and divine, Zed added.