Saturday 24 November 2012

Sanatan Knowledge



Hindu Scriptures are full of detailed information about some of the new and advanced concepts in the field of Science, Mathematics, Medicines, weapons and many more of such advanced concepts which are totally new to Modern Science. Some of them are as follows..

Cosmology and Psychology, Medicine (Ayurveda), Aviation, Surgery, Paediatrics, Gynaecology, Anatomy, Physiology, Pharmacology, Embryology, Blood Circulation, Rhinoplasty, Amputation, Caesarian and Cranial surgeries, Anesthesia, Antibiotic herbs, Atomic theory, Chemistry Alchemical Metals, Astronomy and Mathematics, Geography, Constellation science, Botany and Animal science, Algebra, Arithmetic and Geometry, Planetary positions, Eclipses, Cosmography, and mathematical techniques, Force of Gravity, The Decimal, Metallurgy.

From The Mahabharata we get information about Bacteria -Viruses, Physiology, Science of Speech.

Taxila University (The world's first university) explains Mathematics, Zero, the most powerful tool, Geometry, The value of Pi in India, Pythagorean Theorem or Baudhayana Theorem? Raising 10 to the power of 53, Astronomy, The Law of Gravity- 1200 years before Newton, Measurement of Time, Plastic surgery in India 2600 years old, 125 types of surgical instruments, 300 different operations, India's contributions acknowledged by historians and scholars.

Grammar, Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology Sanskrit was the classical literary language of the Indian Hindus and Panini is considered the founder of the 
language and literature. Vedic Mathematics.

The Kautiliya Arthasastra speaks about Minerals and Metals and Ethnobiological 
Information in Kautilya's Arthasastra. It is surprising that even in the I Millennium BC, they had developed an elaborate terminology for different metals, 
minerals and alloys. Brass (arakuta) was known, so also steel (vrattu), bronze (kamsa), bell-metal (tala) was an alloy of copper with arsenic, but tin-copper alloy was known as trapu. A bewildering variety of jewellery was 
also classified and given distinctive names.

Information and instructions about various other aspects 
of social life, including man's relationship with animals 
and plants. Ethnobiological Information contained in the Arthasastra. It deals with forests, plants, animals, animal husbandry including veterinary suggestions, agriculture medicinal-industrial commercial importance and application of flora 
and fauna, and the uses of plants and animals in biological and chemical warfare, besides weapon making and other military uses.

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From The Chhandogya Upanishad - XVIII. vii. 23-26

1. Narada approached Sanatkumara and said: “Sir, teach me.”
“Come and tell me what you know,” he replied, “and then I will teach you what is beyond that.”

2. “Sir, I know the Rig-Veda, the Yajur-Veda, the Sama-Veda and Atharvan the fourth; and also the Itihasa-Purana as the fifth. I know the Veda of the Vedas (viz., grammar), the rules for the propitiation of the Pitris (ancestors), the science of numbers, the science of portents, the science of time, the science of logic, ethics and politics, the science of the gods, the science of scriptural studies, the science of the elemental science, the science of weapons, the science of the stars, the science of snake-charming and the fine arts – all these, Sir, I know,”

3. “But, Sir, with all these I am only a knower of words, not a knower of the Self. I have heard from holy men like you that he who knows the Self crosses over sorrow. I am in sorrow. Do, Sir, help me to cross over to the other side of sorrow.”

4. To him he then said: “Verily, whatever you have learned here is only a name.
"That which is Infinite – that, indeed, is happiness. There is no happiness in anything that is finite. The Infinite alone is happiness. But this Infinite one must desire to understand.”
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This can be considered only an appendix to the vast ocean of Vedic Knowledge- Science and Mathematics and other concepts.... We will provide detailed information about Vedic Science in our upcoming posts...!

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