Amazing Facts About India
Amazing Facts About India
Mount Kailas,Himalayas "abode of snow"-In Snskrit
1. India's history goes back to 3,200 BC when Hinduism was first founded. Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism. Judaism.2. Zoroashtrianism, Christianity and Islam all exist within the country today.
3. The first Indian epic is Ramayana.
4. The longest Epic in world literature with 100,000 two-line stanzas is Mahabharatha.
5. India never invaded any country in her last 1000 years of history.
6. India invented the Number system. Aryabhatta invented zero.
7. The world's first university was established in Takshila in 700 BC. More than 10500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects.
8. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
9. According to the Forbes magazine, Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software.
10. Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans.
11. India was one of the richest countries till the time of British rule in the early 17th Century. Christopher
Columbus, attracted by India’s wealth, had come looking for a sea route to India when he discovered America by mistake.
12. Sanskrit is considered the mother of all higher languages. Sanskrit is the most precise, and therefore
suitable language for computer software - a report in Forbes magazine, July 1987.
13. The art of navigation was born in the river Sindh 5000 years ago. The very word "Navigation" is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH.
14. Budhayana first calculated the value of pi, and he explained the concept of what is now known as the
Pythagorean Theorem. British scholars have last year (1999) officially published that Budhayan's works dates to the 6th Century, which is long before the European mathematicians.
15. Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus came from India. Quadratic Equations were by Sridharacharya in the 11th Century.
16. The largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Indians used numbers as big as 1053.
17. According to the Gemological Institute of America, up until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds to the world.
18. USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century-old suspicion amongst academics that the pioneer of wireless communication was Professor Jagdish Bose and not Marconi.
19. The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra.
20. Chess was invented in India.
21. Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health scientists of his time conducted surgeries
like cesareans, cataract, fractures and urinary stones.
22. Usage of anesthesia was well known in ancient India.
23. When many cultures in the world were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley (Indus Valley Civilization).
24. The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.
25. India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border" Hu Shih (former Chinese Ambassador to USA) 'If we don't see even a glimpse of that great India in the India that we see today', it clearly means that we are not working up to our potential, and that if we do, we could once again be an ever shining and inspiring country setting a bright path for rest of the world to follow.
26. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
27. The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.
28. India invented the Number System.
29. Aryabhatta was the first to explain spherical in size ,diameter, rotation and correct speed of Earth in 499
AD.
30. Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans. Charaka, the father of medicine consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago.
31. Today Ayurveda is fast regaining its rightful place in civilization.
32. It is the only society in the world which has never known slavery.
33. In Siddhanta Siromani (Bhuvanakosam 6) Bhaskaracharya II described about gravity of earth about 400 years before Sir Isaac Newton. He also had some clear notions on differential calculus, and the Theory of Continued Fraction.
34. The Vedas are the oldest written text on our planet today. They date back to the beginning of Indian
civilization and are the earliest literary records of the human mind. They have been passed through oral
tradition for over 10,000 years, and first appeared in written form between 2500 - 5,000 years ago. Veda means “ Knowledge ” in Sanskrit.
35. "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
37. 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.
Dhanur Veda - Science of Archery and War.
Mundaka - Discipline, Faith and warning of Ignorance.
Sulba Sutra - Knowledge of Mathematics
Yoga Sutra - Knowledge of Meditation
Kama Sutra - Knowledge of Love and Sex
38. 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.
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