This document discusses the presence of science and spirituality in ancient Indian texts like the Vedas. It summarizes that the Vedas contain concepts related to mathematics, astronomy, metallurgy, medicine, surgery, and other fields. It provides historical quotes from scholars recognizing the advanced nature of concepts in fields like mathematics, astronomy, metallurgy, medicine and surgery that are present in ancient Indian texts but were not recognized or understood until much later. The document argues that many modern fields had their roots in ancient Indian texts but were not properly acknowledged until being rediscovered.
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Science in vedas
1. BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY
TOPIC
SCIENCE AND SPIRITUALITY
PRESENTED BY-
ABHIJEET KUMAR
B.PHARMA 2ndYR
4. "Vedas were worse than savage" and "India must
be conquered again by education... it's religion is
doomed
(Max Muller, 1823, the most well known
early sanskritist and indologist)
[Vyasadeva], a mythical seer of primitive times is
named as author
(Moriz Winternitz, 1863
eminent Austrian Orientalist)
"Indian in blood and color, but English in taste, in
opinion, in morals, and in intellect.
(Thomas Macaulay,1800,British poet, historian
and politician,hired by East India Company)
100-150 Years Back!
6. Pythagoras,570 BC Baudhayan Rishi, 800 BC
d朝rghasyk畊a畊ay rajjuH prvamn朝, tiryaDaM
mn朝, cha yatp畊thagbhUte kurutastadubhay畊
karoti.
The diagonal of a rectangle produces by itself
both (the areas) produced separately by its two
sides (Sulba Sutra 3.11)
SULBA SUTRA
YAJUR VEDA
7. Like Rig veda 10. 130. 3: Prama, Paridhi,Pratima.
YajurVeda 7th Mandala : Series of odd numbers.
Taittriya samhitaYajurVeda 7.2.11-20: Powers of tens and Zero
AtharvaVeda samihta (6.25.1-3): Decimals systems
Sathapath Brahmana (2.3.4. 19-20): Multiplications
RiG veda 10th Mandala.Verse 90: Fractions
Taitariya samhitaYajur veda 5.2.7 and 10: Infinity
Manava Sulba sutra 1.27 : Value of Pi
the units of measurement used inVedas easily lead to the
accuracy of the diagonal "roughly one-thousandth of the
thickness of a sesame seed.
(John F. Price, School of Mathematics,
University of New South Wales,Australia)
8. Geometry must have been known in
India long before the writing of Surya
Sidhanta (2000B.C)....... Surya Sidhanta
contains a rational system of
trigonometry
Prof A.R.Wallace,
British Naturalist, explorer,geographer,anthropologist and biologist
9. nasato vidyate bhavo/ nabhavo vidyate satah
ubhayor api drisho 'ntas/ tv anayos tattva-darshibhih
Those who are seers of the truth have concludedthat of the
nonexistentthere is no perseverance and of the eternal
there is no change.This they have concludedby studying
the nature of both.
(Bhagavad-Gita 2.16)
JyotishSiddhanta
"Vedic Cosmology is the only one in which
the time scales correspond to those of
modern scientific cosmology."
(Carl Sagan, Astronomer and Physicists)
[Vedic] a Cosmogony is which no
European conception has ever
surpassed."
(Nobel laureate Count Maurice Maeterlinck)
RIG VEDIYA
BRAHMA
TARKA!
10. You hail from IndiaYet you have not cared to
learn sanskrit.Come along and see my library
which treasures classics from sanskrit,the Gita,
and other treasures on Hindu Philosophy.They
are the main sources of my inspiration and
guidelines for purpose of scientific investigations
and formulation of theories.
Albert Einstein, from reputed magazine ScienceToday
Mathematical science was so perfect and
astronomical observation so complete that the
paths of the sun and the moon were accurately
measured.
GeneralA.Cunningham,BritishArchaelogists andArmy General
11. Hiranayam ca me sisam Ca
me tripura ca me Shyamam
I want Gold, silver, copper,
Lead, Tin, and Iron
(From Krishna Yajur
Veda 4/7/5)
Yajnavalkhya smruthi 78 : Purification of metals
Rasratna Samucchaya: Preparation of alloys of Bronze, Brass, Bell
Metal and ores of Lead
Rasarnavanam (4.52): Extraction of Gold, and sublimationand
distillationprocesses
Sarangdahara Samihta: Pharmaceutical Formulas
21. Screen clipping taken: 5/12/2013, 4:04 AM
He has always acknowledged his debt to
P畊ini for his modern notion of an explicit
generative grammar
(Wikipedia, 11 may, 2013)
saj誰辰 ca paribh辰単辰 ca / vidhir niyama eva ca
atide巽o dhik辰ra巽 ca / 単a嘆-vidha s端tra-lak単a谷am
The six kinds of s端tras are saj誰辰, paribh辰単辰, vidhi, niyama, atide巽a, and adhik辰ra.
saj誰辰 ca paribh辰単辰 ca / vidhir niyama eva ca
atide巽o dhik辰ra巽 ca / 単a嘆-vidha s端tra-lak単a谷am
The six kinds of s端tras are saj誰辰, paribh辰単辰, vidhi, niyama, atide巽a, and adhik辰ra.
saj誰辰 ca paribh辰単辰 ca / vidhir niyama eva
ca atide巽o dhik辰ra巽 ca / 単a嘆-vidha s端tra-
lak単a谷am
The six kinds of s端tras are saj誰辰, paribh辰単辰,
vidhi, niyama, atide巽a, and adhik辰ra.
36.
The literature of India makes us acquainted with a great
nation of past ages, which grasped every branch of
knowledge, and which will always occupy a distinguished
place in history of civilization of mankind
Count Bjornstjerna (Swedish Theosophists, 1800)
Theogeny of the Hindus P.85)
37. In its (Rigveda) noble simplicity, in the loftiness of its
philosophic vision, it is probably the most admirable
piece of philosophy of olden times.
Prof. Paul Deussen
Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human
mind has conceived.
Alfred North Whitehead
(British mathematician,logician and philosopher)
In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous
philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita... in comparison with
which... our modern world and its literature seems puny
and trivial.
(Henry David Thoreau, American author, poet,
philosopher, and leading transcendentalis
Indian psychology is far more perfect than European
psychology.
Mrs. Annie Beasant, British socialist,Theosophist, 1847
38. Taxila Nalanda
Prior to Alexandar there
was no culture of science
in Greeks
(Plato, 400 B.C.)
Khusrao I
Zij- I - Shahryar
House of Wisdom (Toledo Library at Baghdad)
39. "... everything has come
down to us from the banks
of the Ganges.
FrancoisVoltaire
(1775, French Enlightenment writer,historian
and philosopher)