By SUNDERGOPAL DAS

M. Tech., IIT Delhi

VEDIC KNOWLEDGE
Revealed absolute Truth Every word unchanged eternally

SRUTI

SMRTI

Composed by sages Wording may change from age to age

VEDAS
Rg, Yajur, Sama, Atharva

UPAVEDAS
Dhanurveda Ayurveda, etc.

VEDANGAS

Ritual Sutras
Connected to Kalpa-vedanga

Tantras
Spoken by Lord Siva to Parvati

Pancaratras

Puranas

Itihasas

Six Darshanas

Samhitas
mantras

Kalpa
ritual details

Srauta Sutras
explains public yajnas

Vaisnava worship

18 Major

Brahmanas
ritual explanation of mantras

Siksa
pronunciation

Grhya Sutras
explains home yajnas

Tamasic

18 Minor

Aranyakas
esoteric explanation of mantras

Vyakarana
grammar

Dharma Sutras
Law books

Rajasic

Upanisads
Jnana-kanda philosophy of Brahman

Nirukta
etymology

Dharma Sastras
including Manusamhita and others

Sattvic

Chandas
meters

Jyotisa
astronomy-time calculation

Vedanta
(Vyasa) (Metaphysics) theology of Upanisads

Mimamsa

Nyaya
(Gautama)

Vaisesika

(Jaimini) (Kanada) (Epistemology, logic) (Hermeneutics) (Metaphysics) philosophy of interpreting philosophy of knowledge scriptural texts existence including logic sisters

Yoga
(Patanjali) (Sadhana)

Sankhya
(Atheist Kapila) (Metaphysics)

sisters

sisters

The Ancient Vedic Hymns The Vedas

Rig Veda - Knowledge of Hymns, 10,859 verses There is only one truth, only men describe it in different ways. Yajur Veda - Knowledge of Liturgy, 3,988 verses Sama Veda - Knowledge of Classical Music, 1,549 verses Ayur Veda - Knowledge of Medicine, over 100,000 verses

The Ancient Vedic Hymns The Upanishads

Jyotisha Astrology and Astronomy. Kalpa Rituals and Legal matters. Siksha Phonetics. Aitareya Creation of the Universe, Man and Evolution. Chandogya Reincarnation, Soul. Kaushitaki Karma. Kena Austerity, Work, and Restraint. Dharnur Veda Science of Archery and War. Mundaka Discipline, Faith and warning of Ignorance. Sulba Sutra Knowledge of Mathematics Yoga Sutra - Knowledge of Meditation

Pointstobecovered.
The wonder word Mythology! Its connection with the Vedas

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How it got started?

REFUTATIONS Modern researches on Vedas Glory of Vedic Wisdom

Present Condition
Most of the Indologists, historians, and archeologists in modern universities agree that there was no civilization in the Ganges basin of India 5000 years ago.
The civilization in which those pastimes are said to have occurred simply did not exist (as in Bhagavatam, Mahabharat, Ramayan). They say that the stories of that civilization are mythological, and they were gradually invented over a period of centuries. Bentley and pioneer Indologists such as Sir William Jones and Max Muller worked hard to show that the shastras are nothing but a mixture of fables and fiction, and they were quite successful. They started a school of thought that is solidly established in modern universities, both in Western countries and in India itself.

How it got started?

CAREFUL BEGINNING AFTER 1757 Victory
One tea-dealer Mr.Twinning put it "As long as we continue to govern India in the mild, tolerant spirit of Christianity, we may govern it with ease; but if ever the fatal day should arrive, when religious innovation shall set her foot in that country, indignation will spread from one end of the Hindustan to the other, and the arms of fifty millions of people will drive us from that portion of the globe, with as much ease as the sand of the desert is scattered by the wind". Another point of view in support of that policy was by Montgomery. "Christianity had nothing to teach Hinduism, and no missionary ever made a really good Christian convert in India. He was more anxious to save the 30,000 of his country-men in India than to save the souls of all the Hindus by making them Christians at so dreadful a price".

How it got started?

GRADUAL ATTACK However, one year before this law was put into effect, the author Charles Grant wrote, "The Company manifested a laudable zeal for extending, as far as its means went, the knowledge of the Gospel to the pagan tribes among whom its factories were placed. Upon his arrival in 1810, the Governor-general Marquis of Hastings wrote: "the Hindoo appears a being merely limited to mere animal functions, and even in them indifferent...with no higher intellect than a dog..." Seeing India as an unlimited field for missionary activity, and insisting that it was part of a Christian government's duty to promote this, Christian missionaries came to India without any government approval.
William Carey (1761-1834) was the pioneer of the modern missionary enterprise in India, and of western (missionary) scholarship in oriental studies. Carey was an English oriental scholar and the founder of the Baptist Missionary Society. From 1801 onward, as Professor of Oriental Languages, he composed numerous philosophical works, consisting of 'grammars and dictionaries in the Marathi, Sanskrit, Punjabi, Telugu, Bengali and Bhatanta dialects. From the Serampor press, there issued in his life time, over 200,000 Bibles and portions in nearly 40 different languages and dialects, Carey himself undertaking most of the literary work.

How it got started?

GRADUAL ATTACK Another preacher, William Archer, wrote in his book, India and the Future "The plain truth concerning the mass of the [Indian] population and the poorer classes alone is that they are not civilized people." Reverend A.H. Bowman wrote that Hinduism was a "great philosophy which lives on unchanged whilst other systems are dead, which as yet unsupplanted has its stronghold in Vedanta, the last and the most subtle and powerful foe of Christianity." In 1790, Dr.Claudius Bucchanan, a missionary attached to the East India Company, arrived in Bengal. Not long after his arrival, the good doctor stated"Neither truth, nor honesty, honor, gratitude, nor charity, is to be found in the breast of a Hindoo." George Gogerly went on to write "The whole history of this famous god (Krsna) is one of lust, robbery, deceit andmurderthehistoryofthewholehierarchyofHindooismisoneof shameful iniquity, too vile to be described."

How it got started?

Interest was not Education but Conversion The prominent missionary, Alexander Duff (1806-1878) founded the Scottish Churches College, in Calcutta, which he envisioned as a "headquarters for a great campaign against Hinduism." Duff sought to convert the Indians by enrolling them in English-run schools and colleges, and placed emphasis on learning Christianity through the English language. Duff wrote " While we rejoice that true literature and science are to be substituted in place of what is demonstrably false, we cannot but lament that no provision has been made for substituting the only true religion-Christianity - in place of the false religion which our literature and science will inevitably demolish Of all the systems of false religion ever fabricated by the perverse ingenuity of fallen man, Hinduism is surely the most stupendous.

How it got started?

Dangerous Motives Richard Temple, a high officer, said in an 1883 speech to a London missionary society:
" India presents the greatest of all fields of missionary exertion... India is a country which of all others we are bound to enlighten with external truth...But what is most important to you friends of missions, is this - that there is a large population of aborigines, a people who are outside caste....If they are attached, as they rapidly may be, to Christianity, they will form a nucleus round which British power and influence may gather.

He addressed a mission in New York in bolder terms:

"Thus India is like a mighty bastion which is being battered by heavy artillery. We have given blow after blow, and thud after thud, and the effect is not at first very remarkable; but at last with a crash the mighty structure will come toppling down, and it is our hope that someday the heathen religions of India will in like manner succumb."

How it got started?

Dangerous Motives The First Scholars: Sir William Jones: Founder, Royal Asiatic Society
He translated Shakuntala by Kalidas, The Code of Manu

He addressed a mission in New York in bolder terms:

"Thus India is like a mighty bastion which is being battered by heavy artillery. We have given blow after blow, and thud after thud, and the effect is not at first very remarkable; but at last with a crash the mighty structure will come toppling down, and it is our hope that someday the heathen religions of India will in like manner succumb."

How it got started?

Dangerous Motives- Thomas Babbington Macaulay
As to the value of teaching Sanskrit and Indias classical literatures, as well as regional languages, in schools to be established by the British for the education of the Indian people, A few members of the Council were mildly in favor of it, but the elegantly expressed, fully ethnocentric and Philistine view of Macaulay prevailed. In his Education Minute, Macaulay wrote that he couldnt find one Orientalist. "who could deny that a single shelf of good European library is worth the whole native literature of India and ArabiaAre we to teach false history, false astronomy, false medicine because we find them in company with false religion? The intrinsic superiority of the Western literature is, indeed, fully admitted by those members of the Committee who support the Oriental plan of educationThe superiority of the Europeans becomes absolutely immeasurable." He went on to make the outrageous assertion that "all the historical information which has been collected from all the books written in the Sanscrit language is less valuable than what may be found in the most paltry abridgements used in preparatory schools in England." He then made the following creatively expressed, though uneducated assertion as his central statement of belief "The question now before us is simply whether, when it is in our power to teach the (English) language, we shall teach language in whichthere are no books on any subject which deserve to be compared to our ownwhether, when we can patronize sound philosophy and true history, we shall countenance at the public expense medical doctrines which would disgrace an English farrier, astronomy which would move laughter in girls at an English boarding school, history abounding in kings thirty feet high and reigns thirty-thousand years long, and geography made up of seas of treacle and rivers of butter I would at once stop the printing of Arabic and Sanscrit books, I would abolish the Madrassa and the Sanscrit (sic) college at Calcutta."

How it got started?

Dangerous Motives- Thomas Babbington Macaulay

In a letter to his father in 1836, Macaulay exclaimed

"...It is my belief that if our plans of education are followed up, there will not be a single idolator among the respectable classes in Bengal thirty years hence. And this will be effected without any efforts to proselytize, without the smallest interference with religious liberty, by natural operation of knowledge and reflection. I heartily rejoice in the project.

In other words, Lord Macaulay believed that by knowledge and reflection, the Hindus would turn their backs upon the religion of their forefathers and take up Christianity. In order to do this, he planned to use the strength of the educated Indians against them by using their scholarship to uproot their own traditions, or in his own words - " Indian in blood and color, but English in taste, in opinion, in morals, in intellect." He firmly believed that, "No Hindu who has received an English education ever remains sincerely attached to his religion."

How it got started?

Dangerous Motives- Thomas Babbington Macaulay In a letter to his father in 1836, Macaulay exclaimed
"...It is my belief that if our plans of education are followed up, there will not be a single idolator among the respectable classes in Bengal thirty years hence. And this will be effected without any efforts to proselytize, without the smallest interference with religious liberty, by natural operation of knowledge and reflection. I heartily rejoice in the project. In other words, Lord Macaulay believed that by knowledge and reflection, the Hindus would turn their backs upon the religion of their forefathers and take up Christianity. In order to do this, he planned to use the strength of the educated Indians against them by using their scholarship to uproot their own traditions, or in his own words - " Indian in blood and color, but English in taste, in opinion, in morals, in intellect." He firmly believed that, "No Hindu who has received an English education ever remains sincerely attached to his religion."
To further this end Macaulay wanted a competent scholar who could interpret the Vedic scriptures in such a manner that the newly educated Indian youth would see how barbaric their native superstitions actually were. Macaulay finally found such a scholar in Fredrich Max Mueller.

How it got started?

Dangerous Motives- Fredrich Max Mueller (1823-1900)
Fredrich Max Mueller (1823-1900) was born in Dessau and educated in Leipzig, where he learned Sanskrit and translated the Hitopadesa of Pandita Visnu Sarma before coming to England in 1846. Since he was penniless, he was cared for by Baron von Bunsen, the Prussian ambassador to England who basked in the childishly pleasant thought of converting the whole world to Christianity. It was in London that Max Mueller metMacaulaywhowasstillonthelookoutforhisrightman First commissioned by the East India Company to translate the Rg Veda into English. The company agreed to pay the young Mueller 4 Shillings for each page that was ready to print. He later moved to Oxford where he translated a number of books on Eastern religion. His magnum opus was his series The Sacred Books of the East, a fifty volume work which he began editing in 1875. It goes without saying that by the end of his career, Mueller had amassed a comfortable sum of money. It is surprise that the man who has Bhagvans named after him all over India and is treated with so much veneration there, probably did the most damage to uproot Vedic culture. At the time of his death he was venerated by none other than Lokamanya Tilak as Veda-maharishi Moksha-mula Bhatta of Go-tirtha (Oxford).

How it got started?

Dangerous Motives- Fredrich Max Mueller (1823-1900) AlthoughMuellerisonrecordasextolingIndiasancientwisdom,hisletters (printed in two volumes) tell an entirely different story "History seems to teach that the whole human race required a gradual education before, in the fullness of time, it could be admitted to the truths of Christianity. All the fallacies of human reason had to be exhausted, before the light of a high truth could meet with ready acceptance. The ancient religions of the world were but the milk of nature, which was in due time to be succeeded by the bread of life.... 'The religion of Buddha has spread far beyond the limits of the Aryan world, and to our limited vision, it may seem to have retarded the advent of Christianity among a large portion of the human race. But in the sight of Him with whom a thousand years are but as one day, that religion, like the ancient religions of the world, may have but served to prepare the way of Christ, by helping through its very errors to strengthen and to deepen the ineradicable yearning of the human heart after the truth of God." "Large number of Vedic hymns are childish in the extreme; tedious, low, commonplace.

"Nay, they (the Vedas) contain, by the side of simple, natural, childish thoughts, many ideas which to us sound modern, or secondary and tertiary."

How it got started?

Dangerous Motives- Fredrich Max Mueller (1823-1900) "...this edition of mine and the translation of the Vedas, will hereafter tell to a great extent on the fate of India and on the growth of millions of souls in that country. It (the Rg Veda) is the root of their religion and to show them what the root is, I am sure, the only way of uprooting all that has sprung from it during the last three thousand years" 9 "Hinduism was dying or dead because it belonged to a stratum of thought which was long buried beneath the foot of modern man. He continued: " The worship of Shiva, Vishnu, and other popular deities was of the same and in many cases of a more degraded and savage character than the worship of Jupiter, Apollo or Minerva. 'A religion', he said ' may linger on for a long time, it may be accepted my large masses of the people, because it is there, and there is nothing better. But when a religion has ceased to produce defenders of the faith, prophets, champions, martyrs, it has ceased to live, in the true sense of the word; and in that sense the old orthodox Brahmanism has ceased to live for more than a thousand years." (Speech at the Christians Missions in Westminster Abbey in 1873) 10 "I would like to live for ten years quite quietly and learn the language, try to make friends, and then see if I was fit to take part in this work, by means of which the old mischief of Indian priestcraft could be overthrown and the way opened for the entrance of simple ChristianteachingIndiaismuchriperforChristianitythanRomeorGreecewereatthe time of Saint Paul."

How it got started?

Dangerous Motives- Fredrich Max Mueller (1823-1900)

"India has been conquered once, but India must be conquered again and that secondconquestshouldbeaconquestbyeducationtheancientreligionof India is doomed, and if Christianity does not step in, whose fault will it be?"
'Would you say that any one sacred book is superior to all others in the world? ....I say the New Testament, after that, I should place the Koran, which in its moral teachings, is hardly more than a later edition of the New Testament. Then would follow according to my opinion the Old Testament, the Southern Buddhist Tripitaka, the Tao-te-king of Laotze, the Kings of Confucius, the Veda and the Avesta.' "Tell me some of your chief difficulties that prevent you and your countrymen from openly following Christ, and when I write to you I shall do my best to explain how I and many who agree with me have met them and solved them...From my point of view, India, at least the best part of it, is already converted to Christianity. You want no persuasion to become a follower of Christ. Then make up your mind to work for yourself. Unite your flock - to hold them together and prevent them from straying. The bridge has been built for you by those who came before you. STEP BOLDLY FORWARD, it will break under you, and you will find many friends to welcome you on the other shore and among them none more delighted that you old friend and fellow labourer F. Max-Muller. Letter to NK Majumdar

How it got started?

Dangerous Motives- Fredrich Max Mueller (1823-1900)

"India has been conquered once, but India must be conquered again and that secondconquestshouldbeaconquestbyeducationtheancientreligionof India is doomed, and if Christianity does not step in, whose fault will it be?"
'Would you say that any one sacred book is superior to all others in the world? ....I say the New Testament, after that, I should place the Koran, which in its moral teachings, is hardly more than a later edition of the New Testament. Then would follow according to my opinion the Old Testament, the Southern Buddhist Tripitaka, the Tao-te-king of Laotze, the Kings of Confucius, the Veda and the Avesta.' "Tell me some of your chief difficulties that prevent you and your countrymen from openly following Christ, and when I write to you I shall do my best to explain how I and many who agree with me have met them and solved them...From my point of view, India, at least the best part of it, is already converted to Christianity. You want no persuasion to become a follower of Christ. Then make up your mind to work for yourself. Unite your flock - to hold them together and prevent them from straying. The bridge has been built for you by those who came before you. STEP BOLDLY FORWARD, it will break under you, and you will find many friends to welcome you on the other shore and among them none more delighted that you old friend and fellow labourer F. Max-Muller. Letter to NK Majumdar

How it got started?

Motives of the Indologists (Summary)
Some of the one-sided prejudices that they have inherited can be summed up as follows: (A) Due to religious prejudice, early indologists were reluctant to give the Vedas a higher antiquity than the earliest portion of the Old Testament and place them beyond 2500 B.C. In fact, the dating that they did give to the Vedas was totally speculative and unfounded. (B) Due to a poor fund of knowledge, early indologists relegated all the Vedic texts and the personalities found in them to the realm of mythology. Furthermore, these texts were written by some very late anonymous persons who attributed their works to 'mythical' sages. (C) Early indologists were responsible for creating the outlandish and groundless theory of the aryan invasion, according to which the very existence of the Solar and Lunar Dynasties of kings are totally denied. Such a assumption was solely based upon racial, religious and political motivations. Ironically, this theory is taught in every school throughout the Subcontinent to this day! (D) Early indologists were responsible for the corrupt translations of Vedic works, and misrepresentation of the Vedic culture. (E) Early indologists were responsible for rejecting the idea that Sanskrit was the mother of at least the Indo-European languages; as at first very ably propounded by Franz Bopp,and often mentioned by ancient Indian authors.

REFUTATIONS
Indologists often say that ancient Indians were content with fables and had no interest in recording history:
But yet there are some traditional Vedic scholars who strongly disagree with this. For example, Pandit Kota Vankatachela has written a book giving an unbroken sequence of kings of Magadha from the time of the Mahabharata up to the invasion of India by Muhammad Ghori in 1193 A.D./3/ He gives dates for the reigns of these kings based on the Puranas and related Sanskrit texts. Table lists these kings and the dates of their reigns from Jarasandha to the dynasty of Chandragupta Maurya.

REFUTATIONS
T K V Rajan, archaeologist turned television producer, presented an exhibition titled "In Search of Krishna", a well-documented collection of material about the excavations conducted at the various sites connected with the life of Krishna and the events of the Mahabharata. Over 35 sites of the Mahabharata have been identified in the North, all of which have yielded material culture - painted grey ware (PGW) pottery painted over with designs in black pigment, and antiquities in uniform and identical levels. This pottery is made of a superior quality of paste formed of well levigated clay and fine, well-burnt fabric achieved by distributing heat in the kiln evenly. After their exile, the Pandavas asked for three villages: Paniprastha, Sonaprastha and Indiraprastha, generally identified with modern Panipat, Sonepat and Puranaqila in New Delhi. These sites have also yielded the same pottery and antiquities. Building structures with drainage systems and PGW were excavated at Purana Qila.

REFUTATIONS
Following remarks by Dr. H. Daniel Smith, a professor of religion at Syracuse University. He comments on the Ramayana:
A myth is not necessarily fictional, it's just a story that doesn't have to be taken literally and that tells us something about human nature. The reasons that Smith gives for calling the Ramayana a myth are significant. First of all, there is the problem of saying that Lord Ramacandra lived in Ayodhya in the Treta yuga. This is ruled out by the Darwinian theory of evolution, which says that in that time period, over 864,000 years ago, there were no human beings of the modern type.

Michael Cremo (Drutakarma dasa) and Dr. Richard Thompson (Sadaputa dasa) have just completed a 900 page book, Forbidden Archeology, which gives extensive evidence showing that human beings of the modern type have been living on the earth for many millions of years.

REFUTATIONS
Another problem raised by Smith is that if we take the Ramayana literally, then we are obliged to accept the existence of beings such as Rakshasas, which are endowed with remarkable mystical powers. Smith refers to the world of the Ramayana as a "Walt Disney world" of fantasy - a world that scientifically educated people can hardly take seriously. This problem applies to all the Vedic literatures. All of the shastras are based on a view of reality that assumes the existence of mystic powers, beings with subtle bodies, transmigration of souls, and avataras of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

There is a great deal of evidence in the domain of the paranormal that supports the reality of subtly embodied beings and mystic powers. it is a fact that many eminent scientists have seriously studied paranormal phenomena on an individual basis. This still goes on today, and such scientists have formed organizations such as the International Association for New Science and the International Society for the Study of Subtle Energy and Energy Medicine.

SCIENTIFIC VERIFICATION OF VEDIC KNOWLEDGE

VERIFICATION- VEDIC KNOWLEDGE

VERIFICATION- VEDIC KNOWLEDGE

VEDIC CHEMISTRY VEDIC ASTRONOMY SARASVATI RIVER BED Lord Ramas Bridge AYURVEDA VEDIC COSMOLOGY SPEED OF LIGHT VEDIC MATHEMATICS VAIMANIKA SASTRA MYTH OF ARYAN INVASION DVARAKA CITY FOUND IN OCEAN VEDIC SCIENCE OF MUSIC YOGA AND MEDITATION NASA SANSKRITA REPORT

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HELIODORUS COLUMN KURUKSHETRA FINDINGS PLANTS HAVE LIFE FACTS ABOUT INDIA

LORDRAMAsSETUFOUND IN INDIAN OCEAN

NASA SHUTTLE IMAGES OF A MYSTERIOUS ANCIENT BRIDGE BETWEEN INDIA AND SRILANKA Courtesy : NASA Digital Image Collection The recently discovered bridge currently named as Adam's Bridge made of chain of shoals, c.18 mi (30 km) long, in the Palk Strait between India and Sri Lanka, reveals a mystery behind it. The bridge's unique curvature and composition by age reveals that it is man made. The legends as well as Archeological studies reveal that the first signs of human inhabitants in Sri Lanka date back to the a primitive age, about 17,50,000 years ago and the bridge's age is also almost equivalent. This information is a crucial aspect for an insight into the mysterious legend called Ramayana, which was supposed to have taken place in tretha yuga (more than 17,00,000 years ago). In this epic, there is a mentioning about a bridge, which was built between Rameshwaram (India) and Srilankan coast under the supervision of a dynamic and invincible figure called Rama who is supposed to be the incarnation of the supreme. This information may not be of much importance ! ! to the archeologist s who are interested in exploring the origins of man, but it is sure to open the spiritual gates of the people of the world to have come to know an ancient history linked to the Indian mythology.

LORDRAMAsSETUFOUND IN INDIAN OCEAN

LORDRAMAsSETUFOUND IN INDIAN OCEAN

LORDRAMAsSETUFOUND IN INDIAN OCEAN

LORDRAMAsSETUFOUND IN INDIAN OCEAN

SARASVATI RIVER BED

SARASVATI RIVER BED

Findings of Saraswati River Bed
Evidence from many sources, including that of archaeological remains associated with old river courses, indicates that a major river, stemming mainly from the same sources as the present Sutlej, flowed through Northern Rajasthan, Bahawalpur and Sind-to the southeast of the present course of the Sutlej and the Indus -in the third to second millennium BC. This river, known as the Sarawati in its upper course, at different times either joined the lower course of the Indus in Sind, or found its way independently into the Arabian Sea via Rann of Kutch.'' (Allchin, B., Goudie, A., and Hegde, K., 1978, The prehistory and palaeogeography of the Great Indian Desert, London, Academic Press, p. 198). Vedic and epic tradition on the river is concordant with the archaeological/geographical (and now landsat satellite) attestations.

SARASVATI RIVER BED

BBC News: Saturday, 29 June, 2002, 13:28 GMT 14:28 UK India's 'miracle river Through satellite photography, scientists have mapped the course of an enormous river that once flowed through the north western region of India. The images show that it was 8 km wide in places and that it dried up 4,000 years ago. Publication: The Times of India Date: May 2, 2001 Disclosing the outcome of the research work and the proposal to interlink the rivers at a press conference recently here the director of Saraswati Nadi Sodh Prakalp of Akhil Bhartiya Itihas Sankalan Yojana,(ABISY)S.Kalyanraman, said that the scientific investigations have established the causes and dates of the dislocation of the great river Saraswati, which was mightier than the Sindhu.

SARASVATI RIVER BED

Archaeological evidences
Most of the archaeological sites of the-then civilisation are located on the Saraswati river basin. There are four Harappan and preHarappan sites in Punjab, in addition to the sites in Rajasthan and U.P. These sites are located at Rupar (present Ropar), Nihang Khan, Bara and Sirsa valley. Harappan culture flourished in the western part of Punjab around 2500 B.C. It is believed that the Harappans entered through the Indus Valley into Kalibangan valley on the left bank of Ghaggar (erstwhile Saraswati) and spread to Punjab along the Saraswati River. Carbon dating of the material at Kalibangan suggests that Harappan culture flourished around 2500 B.C. in India and existed for 1000 years. So the present day geomorphologic set up did not exist till 1500 B.C. and the Indus, the Sutlej and the Beas followed independent courses to the sea.

SARASVATI RIVER BED

Evidences from Remote Sensing and GIS

A remote sensing study of the Indian desert reveals numerous signatures of palaeochannels in the form of curvilinear and meandering courses, which is identified by the tonal variations. The Saraswati River could be traced through these palaeochannels as a migratory river. Its initial course flowed close to the Aravalli ranges and the successive six stages took west and northwesterly shifts till it coincides with the dry bed of the Ghaggar River.

SARASVATI RIVER BED

Yash Pal et al. found that the course of the river Saraswati in the states of Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan is clearly highlighted in the LANDSAT imagery by the vegetation cover thriving on the rich residual loamy soil along its earlier course. Digital enhancement studies of IRS-1C data (1995), combined with RADAR imagery from European Remote Sensing satellites ERS 1/2, identified subsurface features and recognised the palaeochannels beneath the sands of the Thar Desert. A study of NRSA, based on satellite derived data, has revealed no palaeochannel link between the Indus and the Saraswati, confirming that the two were independent rivers; also, the three palaeochannels, south of Ambala, seen to swerve westwards to join the ancient bed of the Ghaggar, are inferred to be the tributaries of Saraswati/Ghaggar, and one among them, probably Drishadvati. Digital enhancement techniques using high resolution LISSIII data of IRS-1C satellite, together with pyramidal processing, identified two palaeochannels trending NE-SW in Jaisalmer district of Rajasthan, which are presumed to be the lost river Saraswati. In a study, NRSA used Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-P3) Wide Field Sensor (WiFS) data covering the Indus river system to study the palaeodrainage in northwestern India. The image elements such as tone, colour, texture, pattern, association of WiFS and SIR-C/X-SAR images helped to derive information on current as well as palaeodrainage. WiFS image reveals very faint trace of the river Saraswati/Ghaggar while in the SIR-C/X-SAR image, the connectivity of the palaeochannel could be easily established due to the presence of dark irregular shaped features associated with wetness.

REMAINS OF DVARAKA CITY

Marine archaeology has also been utilized in India off the coast of the ancient port city of Dvaraka in Gujarat, uncovering further evidence in support of statements in the Vedic scriptures. An entire submerged city at Dvaraka, the ancient port city of Lord Krishna with its massive fort walls, piers, warfs and jetty has been found in the ocean as described in the Mahabharata and other Vedic literatures. This sanskrit verse from the Mausala Parva of the Mahabharata, describes the disappearance of the city of Dvaraka into the sea.

"After all the people had set out, the ocean flooded Dvaraka, which still teemed with wealth of every kind. Whatever portion of land was passed over, the ocean immediately flooded over with its waters."

REMAINS OF DVARAKA CITY

REMAINS OF DVARAKA CITY

REMAINS OF DVARAKA CITY

three headed motif on this conch-shell seal (above), found in the Dvaraka excavations, corroborates the reference in the scripture Harivamsa that every citizen of Dvaraka should carry a mudra or seal of this type.

REMAINS OF DVARAKA CITY

REMAINS OF KURUKSHETRA
in Kurukshetra, the scene of the great Mahabharata war, Iron arrows and spearheads have been excavated and dated by thermoluminence to 2,800 B.C.E., the approximate date of the war given within the Mahabharata itself.

The Mahabharata also describes three cities given to the Pandavas, the heroes of the Mahabharata, after their exile:Paniprastha, Sonaprastha & Indraprastha, which is Delhi's Puranaqila. These sites have been identified and yielded pottery & antiquities, which show a cultural consistency & dating consistent for the Mahabharata period, again verifying statements recorded in the Vedic literatures.

VEDIC MATHEMATICS

VEDIC MATHEMATICS
Ekadhikena Purvena ( By one more than the previous one)
The proposition "by" means the operations this sutra concerns are either multiplication or division. [ In case of addition/subtraction proposition "to" or "from" is used.] Thus this sutra is used for either multiplication or division. It turns out that it is applicable in both operations. An interesting application of this sutra is in computing squares of numbers ending in five. Consider: 35x35 = (3x(3+1)) 25 = 12,25 The latter portion is multiplied by itself (5 by 5) and the previous portion is multiplied by one more than itself (3 by 4) resulting in the answer 1225. It can also be applied in multiplications when the last digit is not 5 but the sum of the last digits is the base (10) and the previous parts are the same. Consider: 37X33 = (3x4),7x3 = 12,21 29x21 = (2x3),9x1 = 6,09 [Antyayor dashake]

VEDIC MATHEMATICS

Maths in the Vedas

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made. ~ Albert Einstein

Vedic Mathematics
Ancient Egyptian, Babylonian and Greek geometries derive from the mathematics recorded in the Sulbasutras.

-Abraham Seidenberg (an American historian of mathematics )

" It

is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by ten symbols , each receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value , a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit. But its very simplicity , the great ease which it has lent to all computations, puts our arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions, and we shall appreciate the grandeur of this achievement the more when we remember that it escaped the genius of Archimedes and Appollnius, two of the greatest men produced by antiquity.

Pierre Simon de Laplace,

(French mathematician, philosopher, and astronomer),

...
--

Atomic Physics
"After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense". W. Heisenberg (German Physicist, 19011976)

SPEED OF LIGHT FROM VEDAS

Speed of Light from Rig Veda shloka
In the commentary on Rg Veda by Sayana, it is said : "With deep respect, I bow to the sun, who travels 2,202 yojanas in half a nimisha. A yojana is 8 miles. A nimisha is 16/75 of a second. 2,202 yojanas x 8 miles x 75/8 nimishas ------------------= 165,150 miles/sec One mile is 1,852 meters, i.e. 1.852 kilometers. Thus: 165,150 miles x 1.852 ------------------= 306,000 km/sec Modern science claims the speed of light to be aproximately 300,000 kilometers per second.

NASA Sanskrita Report

NASA article on Sanskrit in AI (Artificial Intelligence) Magazine in Spring of 1985 written by NASA researcher, Rick Briggs.

NASASanskritaReportSays.
Modern scientists hail the ancient language of the gods as the only unambiguous natural language on the planet.

NASA the most advanced research center in the world for cutting edge technology
has discovered that Sanskrit, the world's oldest spiritual language is the only unambiguous spoken language on the planet. The discovery is of monumental significance. It is mind-boggling to consider that we have available to us a language which has been spoken for 4-7000 years that appears to be in every respect a perfect language designed for enlightened communication The language itself, as has been universally recognized by those competent to form a judgment, is one of the most magnificent, the most perfect and wonderfully sufficient literary instruments developed by the human mind.

NASA article on Sanskrit in AI (Artificial Intelligence) Magazine in Spring of 1985 written by NASA researcher, Rick Briggs.

Sanskrit ()
Sanskrit was the classical language of India, older than Hebrew and Latin. It is the oldest, most scientific, systematic language in the world. It became the language of all cultured people in India and in the countries that were influenced by India.

Sanskrit literally means refined or perfected

Sanskrit word
matar pitar bhratar svasar gyaamti trikonamiti dvaar ma naman smi eka

English meaning
mother papa / father brother sister geometry trigonometry door me name smile equal

Sanskrit meaning

'measuringtheearth 'measuringtriangularforms firstpersonpronoun

thesame

Language
The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and more exquisitely refined than either.
-- Sir William Jones (British Orientalist, 1746-1794)

Language
Panini's grammar has been evaluated from various points of view. After all these different evaluations, I think that the grammar merits asserting ... that it is one of the greatest monuments of human intelligence.
-- An evaluation of Panini's contribution by Cardona

AYURVEDA

AYURVEDA
Ayurveda uses the building blocks of existence -- ether, air, fire, water and earth elements -- and studies their unique qualities. The five elements are manifest in the body as three basic principles known as the tridosha or Vata, Pitta and Kapha. Doshas are present in every living cell. When you are healthy, they are in balance; when disease manifests, there is imbalance. They affect you on a physical, mental and emotional level and influence all that you are and do. The texts on Ayurveda offer a unique system of treatment, explaining the inner intelligence the body has enabling it to heal itself when the right conditions exist. Ayurvedic practitioners offer lifestyle adjustments that include diet, herbal formulas, color therapy, massage, yoga and meditation. Our environment, our relationships, the food we eat, our work, our climate, our faith and how we function within our own small universe is of great importance for this will determine our state of physical, mental and spiritual happiness and fulfillment.

AYURVEDA
Physical Features Body Frame Body Weight Skin Teeth Eyes Joints Musculature Appetite Thirst Sweating Sleep Taste Physical Activity Sexual Vitality Pulse Vata Lean & Thin Low Dry, rough, Cool,Black, brown Irregular, protruded, Crooked, thin gums, Tendency toward tooth decay Small, dull, Attractive, brown, black iris Bony markings seen Slight and stiff Variable, scanty Variable Variable Scanty, interrupted Sweet, sour, salty Fast & very active Lower, variable Light & weak Pita Moderate Moderate Soft, oily, warm Fair, yellowish, Red Regular, moderate, Soft gums, yellowish Medium, sharp, Penetrating, Green, grey, Yellowish iris Just visible Medium, flexible Good, excessive Excessive Excessive Moderate, 4-6 hrs, Slightly disturbed Sweet, bitter, Astringent Medium Moderate Jumping Kapha Large & Thick Overweight Thick, oily, cool, Pale, white, Glistening Regular, strong, White, healthy Big, blue iris, Thick eyelashes Not seen Firm, stout Low but steady Less Less More than 6 hrs sound Pungent, bitter, Astringent Lethargic & slow Good Broad & slow

VEDIC ASTRONOMY

VEDIC ASTRONOMY

VEDIC ASTRONOMY

VEDIC ASTRONOMY
Preparation of Astronomical Charts and Indian Vedic calandar which very precisely calculates the dates of Solar and Lunar eclipses and other technical details.

The Astronomical Instruments to measure the time has been installed in Delhi (Jantar Mantar) and Jaipur which accurately measures the time to 2 sec accuracy.

Heliocentric Distances of Planets, According to the Srya-siddhnta Planet Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Cycle 1 360 360 360 360 360 Cycle 2 133 132 262 260 235 232 70 72 39 40 SS Distance .368 .725 1.54 5.07 9.11 W Distance .39 .72 1.52 5.20 9.55

Planetary Periods According to the Srya-siddhnta

Planet
Moon

Cycle 1
57,753,336

Cycle 2
* 17,937,000 7,022,376 * 4,320,000 4,320,000

SS Period
27.322 87.97 224.7 365.26 687.0 4,332.3

W Period
27.32166 87.969 224.701 365.257 686.980 4,332.587

Mercury 4,320,000 Venus Sun Mars Jupiter 4,320,000 4,320,000 2,296,832 364,220

Saturn
Rhu

146,568
-232,238

4,320,000
*

10,765.77
-6,794.40

10,759.202
-6,792.280

The Diameters of the Planets, According to the Srya-siddhnta Planet Orbit W Dia, SS Dia Ratio

Miles
Moon Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn 324,000 4,331,500 4,331,500 0 8,146,909 51,375,764 127,668,255 2400.00 3,008.0 4,010.6 8,000.0 3,771.7 41,624.0 73,882.0

Miles
2,160. 3,100. 7,560. 7,928. 4,191. 86,850. 72,000. .90 1.03 1.89 .99 1.11 2.09 .97

"Vedic Cosmology is the only one in which the time scales correspond to those of modern scientific cosmology." - Well Known Scientist Carl Sagan

VEDIC COSMOLOGY is the Cosmogony which no European conception has ever surpassed. - Nobel laureate Count Maurice Maeterlinck
VEDIC COSMOLOGY is More ancient than those of the Greeks or Egyptians. And that, the movements of the stars calculated 4,500 years ago, does not differ by a minute from the tables of today. - French astronomer Jean-Claude Bailly

The ninety foot tall astronomical instrument known as Samrat Yantra, built by the learned King Suwai Jai Singh of Jaipur, measures time to within two seconds per day.

THE MYTH OF ARYAN INVASION

THE MYTH OF ARYAN INVASION

It says that at around 1500 BC Aryans, (which it says was a tribe from the Europe) invaded north India plundering and pushing down the local Dravidians (who it says were the original natives of India) who lived there to down South India. In a nutshell, it says the North Indians of today belong to an Aryan race which came to India from Europe and todays South Indians are the native Indians (called Dravidian Race!) who lived in North India before the Aryans came! The vedic people who lived in North India during the vedic ages were these Aryans, it says!

How did they arrive at this Date? First let us see how did they arrive at these dates! It was well known in India in the british period that Vedas pre-dated Christ, since they definitely pre-dated Buddha who lived some 400 years before Christ. Some scholars(!) then said that as per Bible the world was created in 4000 BC(!), and Noahs flood took place in 2500 BC(!). So they decided that Aryan Invasion of India must have taken place only after this flood and before Buddha, and hence would be around 1500 BC!

THE MYTH OF ARYAN INVASION

ARYAN is not a race
First of all Aryan is not a race. No where in the vedas and other ancient Indian text is the terms Aryan used to refer to a race!! Aryan in Sanskrit means Gentleman. It is used in Sanskrit like how in English we use the term Mr, that s all about it!

How can then Aryans and Dravidians be two separate races?

The people of south India whom the Aryan Invasion theory says were the original natives, are NOT a race separate from the North Indians! They all belong to one and the same race. The ancient Indian vedic race. This is because, the languages of both, the so called Aryan and Dravidian people have their roots in Sanskrit language. Both worship the same Gods. Both have the same epics. Both have same philosophies. Both have histories which date back to BC.

THE MYTH OF ARYAN INVASION

Theory Disproved

1. ARYAN is not a race 2. How can then Aryans and Dravidians be two separate races? 3. Why dont any dravidian folk lore or ancient texts or sayings or stories or epics exist which talk about the so called Aryan invasion? 4. Also why do the vedic texts talk about locations in South India? The Ramayana, Mahabharatha all talk about South Indian locations even below and beyond the main land of India into the Indian ocean like Srilanka! 5. No mention of Europe!:- There is no mention of any location outside the mainland of India in any of the vedic texts! 6. No European Rivers!:- None of the vedic texts talk about rivers outside India! 7. Saraswati River:- This is a death blow to the Aryan Invasion theory. According to the Aryan Invasion theory the aryans who invaded India in around 1500 BC settled on the banks of Indus or Sindhu river in North India.

VAIMANIKA SHASHTRA
Existence of Ancient science on various air planes or vimanas: The detail is explained in the Vaimanika sastra purportedly written by Maharishi Bharadwaja in the 4th Century BC According to this there are 32 secrets to piloting a vimana like:
"Maantrika: The invoking of mantras which will permit one to achieve certain spiritual and hypnotic powers so that he can construct airplanes which cannot be destroyed. Taantrika: by acquiring some of the Tantric powers, one may endow his aircraft with those same powers. Goodha: This secret permits the pilot to make his vimana invisible to his enemies. Adrishya accomplishes the same purpose by attracting 'the force of the ethereal flow in the sky'.

VAIMANIKA SHASHTRA
Secrets of Vimana
1 . Maantrika 3 . Kritika 5 . Goodha 7 . Adrishya 2 . Taantrika 4 . Antaraala 6 . Drishya 8 . Paroksha 17 . Pralaya 19 . Taara 21 . Langhana 23 . Chapala 25 .Parashabda Grahaka 27 . Kriyagrahana 29 .Arkaashakaara 31 . Stabdhaka 18 . Vimukha 20 . Mahashabda Vimochana 22 . Sarpagamana 24 . Sarvatomukha 26 . Roopakarshana 28 . Dikpradarshana 30 . Jalada roopa 32 . Karshana

9 . Aparoksha 11 . Vistira
13 . Roopantara 15 . Jyotirbhava

10 . Sankoch 12 . Viroopa Karan

14 . Suroopa 16 . Tamomaya

VAIMANIKA SHASHTRA
1. Mantrika. : As prescribed in Mantradhikaranam, by invoking the mantras of chhinna masta, Bhairavi, Veginee, Siddanatha, acquire the powers of ghutikaa, paadukaa, visible and invisible and other mantraas with potent herbs and efficacious oils, and Bhuvaneshwaree mantra which confers spiritual and mesmeric powers, to construct aeroplanes, which dont break, cannot be cut, cannot be burnt, and cannot be destroyed.
2. Tantrika. : ByacquiringMahaamaaya,shambara,andothertaantricpowers,toendow theplanewiththosepowers. By invoking specific tantric powers to endow the vimana with some special powers. 5. Goodha : AsexplainedinVayutatvaprakarana,byharnessingthepowers,yaasaa, prayaasa in the eighth atmospheric layer covering the earth to attract the darkcontentofthesolarray,anduseittohidethevimanafromtheenemy

VAIMANIKA SHASHTRA
CLASSIFICATION OF VIMANA
In this chapter on classification of vimanas as per different Yugas and Yugadharma, the text explains the types of vimanas and their names featuring in the yugas. In Krita-yuga, people by their own powers acquired through righteous living could fly on their own volition from place to place without the aid of flying machine. In Threthayuga flying machines were of Mantrika category. In Dwaparayuga flying machines under classification Tantrika were used. In Kaliyuga, flying machines of Kritaka category were specified.

VAIMANIKA SHASHTRA
VEDIC SCIENTISTS OF AVIATION TECHNOLOGY
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VAIMANIKA SHASHTRA
Twenty-five vimanas of KRITAKA VIMANA category of the current Yuga are stated as follows:

Shakuna 1. Sundara Rukma 2. Mandal 3. a 4. Vakratu nda 5.

Bhadrak a Ruchaka Virajaka Bhaskar a ajaavart a

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

powshkala Viranchik a Nandaka Kumada Mandara

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Hamsa 1. Shukaasya 2. Sowmyaka Krownchaka 3. Padmaka 4. 5.

Symhika Panchaban a Owryaaya na Pushkara Kodanda

VAIMANIKA SHASHTRA
SHAKUN VIMANA

This vimana contains twenty-eight parts. They are Peetha or Floorboard; hollow mast; three wheeled keelakaas; four heaters; air suction-pipe; water jacket; oil tank; air heater; heater; steam boiler; viduyut yantra or electric generator; air propelling yantra; vaatapa yantra or air suction pipe; dikpradarshana dwaja; shakuna yantra; two-wings; tail portion; owshnyaka yantra or engine; kiranaakarshana mani.

VAIMANIKA SHASHTRA
SUNDER VIMANA

Eight constituent parts are: Peetha or ground plate Smoke chimney, Five gas engine Bhujya metal pipe, Wind blower Electricity generator, Four phased heater Outer cover

VAIMANIKA SHASHTRA
RUKMA VIMANA Rukma is stated to reach speed up to 250 miles in 24 minutes, a speed of 725 miles/hour.

VAIMANIKA SHASHTRA
TRIPUR VIMANA
Tripura is the last of the representative vimanas discussed in the text. It has two unique features. It is a three-in-one craft and also a solar powered vehicle. Tripura means three storey or tiers. This concept is brought in the form of a three-tier construction. The first tier is for operation on land, the second one for operation on water and inside water and the third for flying in air. As an integral unit of three tiers the craft is stated to be a flying machine.

VEDIC CHEMISTRY

History of Vedic Chemistry

Rigveda mentions metals like gold, copper, silver and bronze. A golden earring and necklace are mentioned thus: Hiranyakarnam manigreevam Sukla yajurveda speaks of tin and lead also: hiranyam cha meayaschame seesam chame thrapuschame syaaman cha me loham cha me Atharvaveda compares the colour of the universal power with that of metals: His flesh has the colour of syama (iron), blood has the colour of loha (copper), totally he has the colour of tin and has the smell of lead The technique for metallurgical alloying presented in Chandogya upanisad is like this: One would join gold with the help of borax, silver with gold, tin with silver, lead with tin, copper with the help of lead, and timber with copper and leather. According to N Gopalakrishnan, this technique is used till now for reducing the melting point of the metals to be alloyed

Marvels of Vedic Chemistry

1. The metal workers in India had made complicated idols from bronze and copper. 2. The iron pillar in Qutab near Delhi, which weighs ten tones and is 1500 years old, certain iron beams in the temples of Puri and Konarak in Orissa and Rajastan, prove the advancement of metallurgy in India. 3. The portion in Susruta Samhita, which explains the preparation and use of alkalies, occupies a prominent place in Indian medical chemistry. It is said that alkalies were used to clean surgical instruments, which were used to cut the diseased parts of human body. (the term ksara itself means that which removes away the affected parts of the body). Plates of iron, silver and gold were dipped in alkaline liquids before mixing with medicines. Susruta classifies alkalies into mrdu, tiksna and madhyama. He gives the preparation of each category.

Modern Researches on Vedas

Existence of Ancient science on various air planes or vimanas:
Paroksha: This helpful hint enables the pilot to paralyze other vimanas and put them out of action. Aparoksha: One may employ this ability to project a beam of light in front of his craft to light his way.
And five sources of danger for the pilot: "Aavartaas or aerial whirlpools are innumerable in the above regions. Of them the whirlpools in the routes of the vimanas are five. In the Rekhapathha there occurs the whirlpool of winds. In Kakshya-pathha there occurs Kiranavarta or whirlpool from solar rays. In Shaktipathha there occurs Shytyaavarta or whirlpool of cold currents. And in Kendrapathha there occurs gharshanavartaor whirlpool by collision. Such whirlpools are destructive of vimanas, and have to be guarded against. "The pilot should know these five sources of danger, and learn to steer clear of them to safety." - Vymankia Shastra

Vaimanika sastra
Existence of Ancient science on various air planes or vimanas:

"In ancient India the writers of knowledge were careful to observe every form of change, every pattern of flow - restmotion and to describe even the smallest of effects seen, the causes unseen. Often they spoke of matter that were beyond the five senses, yet in much detail. It seems their science was one of experience more than speculation. - John Walker, "The Vortex Arena" in Anti-Gravity and the Unified Field

FACTS ABOUT INDIA

1. India never invaded any country in her last 10,000 years of history.
2. India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta. 3. The World's first university was established in Takshila in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education. 4. Sanskrit is the mother of all the European languages. Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software - a report in Forbes magazine, July 1987. 5. Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans. Charaka, the father of medicine consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago. Today Ayurveda is fast regaining its rightful place in our civilization. 6. Although modern images of India often show poverty and lack of development, India was the richest country on earth until the time of British invasion in the early 17th Century. Christopher Columbus was attracted by India's wealth. 7. The art of Navigation was born in the river Sindh 6000 years ago. The very word Navigation is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH. The word navy is also derived from Sanskrit 'Nou'

FACTS ABOUT INDIA

1. Bhaskaracharya calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the sun hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart. Time taken by earth to orbit the sun: (5th century) 365.258756484 days.
2. The value of "pi" was first calculated by Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the 6th century long before the European mathematicians. 3. Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India. Quadratic equations were by Sridharacharya in the 11th century. The largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Hindus used numbers as big as 10**53(10 to the power of 53) with specific names as early as 5000 BCE during the Vedic period. Even today, the largest used number is Tera 10**12(10 to the power of 12). 4. According to the Gemological Institute of America, up until 1896, India was the only source for diamonds to the world. 5. Chess (Shataranja or AshtaPada) was invented in India. 6. The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.

FACTS ABOUT INDIA

Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health scientists of his time conducted complicated surgeries like cesareans, cataract, artificial limbs, fractures, urinary stones and even plastic surgery and brain surgery. Usage of anesthesia was well known in ancient India. Over 125 surgical equipment were used. Deep knowledge of anatomy, physiology, etiology, embryology, digestion, metabolism, genetics and immunity is also found in many texts.

Although modern images & descriptions of India often show poverty, India was one of the richest countries till the time of British in the early 17th Century. Christopher Columbus was attracted by India's wealth and was looking for route to India when he discovered America by mistake.

Massenger of Peace and Prosperity

India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border. Hu Shih
former ambassador of China in USA

Vedas are the oldest literatures

in the world

In point of authenticity, the Vedas have incontestable precedence over the most ancient records. These holy books which, according to the Brahmins, contains the revealed word of God were honored in India long before Persia, Asia Minor , Egypt, and Europe, were colonized or inhabited. -- Louis Francois Jacolliot (1837-1890), (President of the Court in Chandranagar, who translated numerous Vedic hymns, the anusmriti, and the Tamil work, Kural.)

Vedas are non-sectarian

Whenever I have read any part of the Vedas, I have felt that some unearthly and unknown light illuminated me. In the great teaching of the Vedas, there is no touch of sectarianism. It is of all ages, climbs, and nationalities and is the royal road for the attainment of the Great Knowledge. --Thoreau (American Thinker)

Glory of Ramayana
Every

civilization which is not based on the culture of the spirit is doomed to perish in brutality and blood. Oh! Rama and Sita, noble human heroes, you who give the example of a sublime spiritual ideal, in your atmosphere of peace and infinite tenderness there reigns a hope, the hope of the regeneration of humanity through the understanding of these ancient symbols and by their realization in the inner lives of men.
--Louis Revel. (French author of The Fragrance of India : landmarks for the world of tomorrow and Les Routes Ardentes de L'Inde)

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FACTS ABOUT INDIA

A Lamentable, Unfortunate but Harsh Reality
It is extremely lamentable that some modern-day Indian Sanskrit scholars continue to glorify such European indologists as unbiased students of Sanskrit literature, whose sole aim was to aquire knowledge for its own sake. The above facts in this essay show very clearly the true motivations of these so-called pioneers of indological studies. However, what is even more lamentable is that the dream of Macaulay has come truehisvisionofcreatingacasteofBrownSahibshasbecomea reality.Nowadays,whilstthewesternworldturnsitsfacetowardsIndian philosophyfortheanswerstolifescomplexities,thegreatestadversariesof Vedic culture are the Indians themselvesthesecularpoliticians,the journalists, the educationalists, in fact the whole Westernised cream of India. And what is even more paradoxical, is that most of them are supposedly Hindus. Upon gaining independence, such people denied India its true identity by retaining the British education and judicial system, without trying to adapt it to the unique Indian mentality and psychology.

WAKE UP INDIANS
A WAKE UP CALL
In the realm of entertainment, India produces more films than any country in the world. Since the British left India, Indian dress code has also changed considerably. Indian men wear western trousers and shirts. If they wear somethingtraditional,theyarethoughtofasoldfashioned. In essence, the youth of India today are taught to be ashamed of being Indian.They are ashamed of their religion and the ethics given by their forefathers. They have been made to believe that embracing westernization is the only way they can progress in life. In this way, the British are still masters of India and the proselytizing Christian indologists have won the day Until India wakes up to her mistake and strives to rediscover her spiritual heritage,shewillcontinuetoproduceBrownsahibsandwillremainunder the yoke of the ghosts of Macaulay and the British educational system.

India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only. ~ Mark Twain

"And then India appears to me in all the living power of her originality .I traced her progress in the expansion of her enlightenment over the world. I saw her giving her laws, her customs, her morale, her religion to Egypt, to Persia, to Greece and Rome, I saw Jaiminy and Veda Vyasa precede Socrates and Plato, and Krishna, the son of the Virgin Devajani (in Sanskrit, created by God) precede the son of the Virgin of Bethelehem. Louis Francois Jacolliot (1837-1890), President of the Court in Chandranagar, who translated numerous Vedic hymns, the Manusmriti, and the Tamil work, Kural.

ALL GLORIS TO VEDAS

HARE KRISHNA HARE KRISHNA

KRISHNA KRISHNA HARE HARE HARE RAMA HARE RAMA

RAMA RAMA HARE HARE

Thank you very much