Prabhupāda: . . . ago, there was one Mr. Badhuri in Benares. He was a great astrologer. So he told me that from Benares the Germans have taken three books: one is Akāśa-patola, one is Kapota-vāhī and his Khapoda-vāhī. Khapoda-vāhī, this aeroplane. Kha means akāśa. And there is another science, kapota-vāhī, to carry man by the pigeons. That is not yet displayed. Kapota-vāhī. And there is another, Akāśa-patola. Any, any, even your chairs you sit down, by mantra it will go on.
Dr. Patel: We have in Mahābhārata, that, I mean, Bhima threw away those elephants and rowing in the sky. And when Parīkṣit thought, "How could it be?" then that dead elephants came down, in the story. That means they were rowing about just like sputniks of today, perhaps. I don't know how they might have . . .
Prabhupāda: No, three books they have taken. They paid some eight lakhs of rupees. That Mr. Badhuri told me. (aside:) Hare Kṛṣṇa.
Dr. Patel: That means this civilization must have felt the pangs of the modern sciences, and then they must have lost it. No?
Prabhupāda: Not lost. It is there. You don't take it. That's it. It is there. One who can read . . .
Dr. Patel: (Hindi to passerby)
Prabhupāda: (aside) Hare Kṛṣṇa. Jaya. Jaya. Good boy.
Harikeśa: They couldn't chant those mantras, though, could they? If they tried . . . even if they tried, they wouldn't be able to chant the mantras.
Prabhupāda: Why? Nobody taught them. You are chanting. How you are chanting? Nobody taught them. That is the difficulty.
Devotee: Why the Germans are good Sanskrit scholars? Why?
Prabhupāda: Yes. Because they had very good tendency for learning Sanskrit to know so many things. That was their research. They knew it that in Sanskrit language there are so many wonderful things.
Dr. Patel: Now, sir, they say that in American universities also, many universities have started teaching Sanskrit.
Prabhupāda: Yes. In every school, every college, every university, there is Sanskrit. (aside:) Hare Kṛṣṇa. Jaya.