MANY of the advances in sciences that we consider today to have been made in Europe were in fact made in India centuries ago. The ancient Hindus laid the foundation of mathematical, scientific, spiritual, medical, ethical, and psychological knowledge. They conceived and developed the sciences of logic and grammar and made great advances in fields so divergent as astronomy, aeronautics and architecture, music, medicine, and mathematics, mythology and martial arts, philosophy and physics, religion and rational logic. In the words of Einstein” We owe a lot to Hindus, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.” India invented the zero and shared it with the world. Without zero there would be no binary system and no computers; counting would be clumsy and cumbersome.
Ancient Hindus contributed in branches of mathematics like algebra, trigonometry, geometry, quadratic and higher degree equations and calculus. The famous Pythagoras Theorem is explained several centuries before in the shulva sutras of the Vedas. It is believed that the much travelled Pythagoras was a student at the Takshashila University in undivided India and he carried with him knowledge of mathematics, medicine and transmigration of the soul to the western world. Australian Indologist A.L Basham in his book,” The wonder that was India” rightly states” the world owes most to India in the realm of mathematics, which was developed to a stage more advanced than that reached by any other nation of antiquity. The success of Indian mathematics was mainly due to the fact that Indians had a clear conception of the abstract number (Algebra) as distinct from the numerical quantity of objects or spatial extension.”
In the 5th Century Aryabhatt discovered many laws of physics which we today attribute to Sir Isaac Newton (1642 -1727). He knew the value of pi. He knew that the earth revolves around the sun, the earth is spherical, that the earth rotates on its axis, that earth is suspended in space and that lunar and solar eclipses occur by interplay of the sun, moon and earth. He also knew the laws of gravity, circumference of the earth, distance between the planets and the sun, revolutionary movement of the earth around the sun and so on.
The ancient Hindus’ contributions in sciences are infinite, but given my limitations of space, I wish to conclude by stating that; Hinduism and Vedic thoughts are criticised by people who only imperfectly understood them.
Also as told previously about value of pi originated from India - it was from a sanskrit shloka in which each letter has assigned some value .
Ancient Hindus contributed in branches of mathematics like algebra, trigonometry, geometry, quadratic and higher degree equations and calculus. The famous Pythagoras Theorem is explained several centuries before in the shulva sutras of the Vedas. It is believed that the much travelled Pythagoras was a student at the Takshashila University in undivided India and he carried with him knowledge of mathematics, medicine and transmigration of the soul to the western world. Australian Indologist A.L Basham in his book,” The wonder that was India” rightly states” the world owes most to India in the realm of mathematics, which was developed to a stage more advanced than that reached by any other nation of antiquity. The success of Indian mathematics was mainly due to the fact that Indians had a clear conception of the abstract number (Algebra) as distinct from the numerical quantity of objects or spatial extension.”
In the 5th Century Aryabhatt discovered many laws of physics which we today attribute to Sir Isaac Newton (1642 -1727). He knew the value of pi. He knew that the earth revolves around the sun, the earth is spherical, that the earth rotates on its axis, that earth is suspended in space and that lunar and solar eclipses occur by interplay of the sun, moon and earth. He also knew the laws of gravity, circumference of the earth, distance between the planets and the sun, revolutionary movement of the earth around the sun and so on.
The ancient Hindus’ contributions in sciences are infinite, but given my limitations of space, I wish to conclude by stating that; Hinduism and Vedic thoughts are criticised by people who only imperfectly understood them.
Also as told previously about value of pi originated from India - it was from a sanskrit shloka in which each letter has assigned some value .
Katapayadi Sankhya
गोपीभाग्यमधुव्रात-शृङ्गिशोदधिसन्धिग ।
खलजीवितखाताव गलहालारसंधर ॥
खलजीवितखाताव गलहालारसंधर ॥
Gopibhagya madhuvrata srngisodadhisandhiga|
Khalajivitakhatava galahalarasandhara||
Khalajivitakhatava galahalarasandhara||
Oh Krishna, the fortune of the Gopis, the detoryer of the demon Madhu,
protector of cattle, the one who ventured the ocean-depths, destroyer of evildoers,
one with plough on the shoulder and the bearer of nectar, may (you) protect (us)!
protector of cattle, the one who ventured the ocean-depths, destroyer of evildoers,
one with plough on the shoulder and the bearer of nectar, may (you) protect (us)!
Shloka demonstrates one of the strongest and most intelligent examples of extreme knowledge and wisdom of our ancient men.
Grahacāraṇibandhana based in the year 683 CE and Laghubhāskariyavivarana based in the year 869 CE speak of a certain numerical notation which goes by the name of Katapayadi Sankhya.
Under this system, a number is ascribed to each and every alphabet of the script, a concept highly similar to the ASCII system in computers. The image below would better explain the relation between the alphabets and the numbers
Under this system, a number is ascribed to each and every alphabet of the script, a concept highly similar to the ASCII system in computers. The image below would better explain the relation between the alphabets and the numbers
So, based on the above method, if the letters in the shloka are replaced by the corresponding numbers, i.e. 'go' by 3, 'pi' by 1, 'bha' by 4, 'ya by 1' and so on, the following result is obtained:
31415926535897932384626433832792
The number, as obvious, is the decimal representation of pi upto 32 decimal places.
Who could have thought encrypting a mathematical concept in a devotional Shloka dedicated to Krishna?
So, what do they gain out of it by performing such extraordinary feat? The answer is two-fold.
Firstly, they used methodologies like this to check the correct usage and pronunciation of the verses, where every variation from the correct mantra or shloka would result in an incorrect rendition of the pi number(or any other system which they would have encoded)
Secondly, they used concepts like above to perform encryption and decryption so that the message would reach the intended receiver and no one would be able to catch the real meaning of the message.
31415926535897932384626433832792
The number, as obvious, is the decimal representation of pi upto 32 decimal places.
Who could have thought encrypting a mathematical concept in a devotional Shloka dedicated to Krishna?
So, what do they gain out of it by performing such extraordinary feat? The answer is two-fold.
Firstly, they used methodologies like this to check the correct usage and pronunciation of the verses, where every variation from the correct mantra or shloka would result in an incorrect rendition of the pi number(or any other system which they would have encoded)
Secondly, they used concepts like above to perform encryption and decryption so that the message would reach the intended receiver and no one would be able to catch the real meaning of the message.
Isn't it Wonderful ?
#ANCIENT INDIA !!!
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