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Facts about IndiaFacts about India
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India
India never invaded any country inher last 10,000 years of history.
It is the only society in the worldwhich has never known slavery.
India was the richest country onEarth until the time of the British
in the early 17th Century
Robert Clives !ersonal wealthamassed from the blunder of Ben"al
durin" 17#0s was estimated ataround $%01,10&
It has been estimated that the total amount oftreasure that the British looted from India
had already reached $1,000,000,000'$1Billion( by 1)01.
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edic Civili/ation
Indus araswati Civili/ations
Rise of 2ainism and Buddhism
4auryan 5eriod
6olden "e of Indian rts ciences
4uslim Invasions*he 4u"hal Em!ire
5ortu"uese Invasion
*he British East-India Com!any
*he British Em!ire
India8s 9reedom tru""le
Inde!endence
4odern India &0&0 ision
Brief :istory of *ime
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India
India invented theNumber System. Zero
was invented byAryabhatta. The place
value system, the
decimal systemwas developed inIndia in 100 B.
Aryabhatta was the !rst toe"plain spherical shape, si#e,diameter, rotation and correctspeed o$ %arth in &'' A(.
The )orld*s !rst university was
established in Ta+shila in 00B. Students $rom all over the)orld studied more than -0subects.
The /niversity o$ Nalandabuilt in the &th century wasone o$ the reatestachievements o$ ancient India
in the !eld o$ education. Sans+rit is considered the
mother o$ all hiher lanuaes.Sans+rit is the most precise,and there$ore suitablelanuae $or computerso$tware a report in 2orbesmaa#ine, 3uly 1'4.
Ayurveda is the earliest school o$medicine +nown to humans.hara+a, the $ather o$ medicineconsolidated Ayurveda 5600 yearsao.
Today Ayurveda is $ast reaininits riht$ul place in civili#ation.
hristopher olumbus wasattracted India*s wealth and wasloo+in $or route to India whenhe discovered the Americancontinent by mista+e.
The art o$ Naviation was born inthe river Sindh -000 years ao.The word 7Naviation8 is derived$rom the Sans+rit wordNA9:ATI;. The word navy is alsoderived $rom Sans+rit *Nou*.
In Siddhanta Siromanierential
calculus, and the Theoryo$ ontinued
2raction.
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;an"ua"es of India
Hindi
Sanskrit
TamilGujarati
Urdu
PunjabiMalayalam
BengaliMarathi
Konkani
Kannada
Assamese
Telegu
Oriya
Rajasthani
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Sindhi
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e c oso! y *he edas are the oldest written te?nowled"e@ in anskrit.eda means >?nowled"e@ in anskrit.
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anskrit was the classical lan"ua"e of India, older
than:ebrew and ;atin.
It is the oldest, most scienti=c, systematiclan"ua"e in the world. It became the lan"ua"e ofall cultured !eo!le in India and in the countries
that were in+uenced by India.anskrit literally means >re=ned@ or >!erfected@Sanskrit word English meaning Sanskrit meaning
matar
pitar
bhratar
svasar
gyaamti
trikonamitidvaar
ma
naman
smi
eka
mother
papa / father
brother
sister
geometry
trigonometrydoor
me
name
smile
equal
'measuring the earth
'measuring triangular forms
first person pronoun
the same
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India Theory o$ ontinued 2raction wasdiscovered by Bhas+aracharya II. Indians discovered Arithmetic and
:eometric proression. Arithmeticproression is e"plained in ?aurveda.
:ovindaswamin discovered Newton:auss Interpolation $ormula about1400 years be$ore Newton.
9ateswaracharya discovered Newton:auss Bac+ward Interpolation $ormulaabout 1000 years be$ore Newton.
@arameswaracharya discoveredhuiler8s $ormula about &00 yearsbe$ore huiler.
Nila+anta discovered Newton8s In!nite:eometric @roression converentseries.
@ositive and Neative numbers andtheir calculations were e"plained !rstby Brahmaupta in his boo+Brahmasputa Siddhanta.
Aryabhatta also propounded the;eliocentric theory o$ ravitation, thuspredatin opernicus by almost one
thousand years.
adhavacharya discoveredTaylor series o$ Sine andosine $unction about 560years be$ore Taylor.
adhavacharya discoveredNewton @ower
series.
adhavacharya discovered:reory
eibnit# series $orthe Inverse Tanent about540 years be$ore
:reory.
adhavacharya discoveredeibnit#
power series $or pi
about C00 years be$oreeibnit#.
Bhas+aracharya calculatedthe time ta+en by the earth toorbit the sun hundreds o$years be$ore the astronomerSmart. Time ta+en by earth to
orbit the sunD
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Similarities to Greek mythology
;ercules
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Similarities to Greek mythology
(ionysus
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Similarities to Biblical mythology*he ancient edic ryan :indus 'Indus araswati( s!oke
about aseries of *en 5itris who ruled before the "lobal 9lood.
Ancient Babylonian leend spea+s o$ a pre2lood series o$ ten +ins.
The ancient %yptians described Ten Shinin Fnes who ruledconsecutively
be$ore the (elue.
The last o$ these +ins in the a$orementioned lists was the hero wholed sevenothers aboard a vessel in which they survived the lobal 2lood.
In ancient India, the hero was 4anu who survived the "lobal-9lood
A!ralayaA with the even Rishis.
In ancient Babylon, the hero*s name was Zisudra who spearheadedthe survival
on the Ar+ o$ seven other humans, the Seven Ap+allu.
In ancient %ypt, the 2lood hero was Toth who survived the (eluePlease click to advance >
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Did the Vedic Aryans travel as far as aster !sland"The %aster Islands located in the@aci!c Fcean, were situated $ar away
$rom any civili#ation.
The cra$tsmanship o$ these islandscorresponds
to the one o$ the ancient Incas.
The sin script o$ the %aster Islands
almosteGuals the ancient scripts o$ Indus
9alley.
Easter Island
symbols
Indus Saraswati
symbols
)ere the Ancient 9edic civilisation o$ Indus Saraswati valleyTransFceanic sea$arersHPlease click to advance >
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*he urya iddhanta,
te
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India The value o$ pi was !rstcalculated by Boudhayana, andhe e"plained the concept o$
what is +nown as the@ythaorean Theorem. ;e
discovered this in the -thcentury lon be$ore the%uropean mathematicians.This was 7validated8 by Britishscholars in 1'''.
Alebra, trionometry andcalculus came $rom India.
Juadratic eGuations werepropounded by Sridharacharyain the 11th century.
The larest numbers the:ree+s and the Komans used
were 10- whereas ;indus usednumbers as bi as 106Cwithspeci!c names as early as6000 B
durin the9edic period.
%ventoday,
the larestused number
isTeraD 1015.
aharshi Sushruta is the$ather o$ surery. 5-00 yearsao he and health scientists o$his time conductedcomplicated sureries li+ecaesareans, cataract, arti!ciallimbs, $ractures, urinarystones and even plasticsurery.
/sae o$ anaesthesia was well+nown in ancient India. Fver
156 surical eGuipments wereused. (etailed +nowlede o$
anatomy, physioloy, aetioloy,embryoloy, diestion,metabolism, enetics andimmunity is also $ound in
many te"ts. )hen many cultures were onlynomadic $orest dwellers over6000 years ao, Indiansestablished ;arappan culturein the Sindhu 9alleyivili#ation.
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Kalaia"at #Oi$in o%atial ats ' ()) BC
Eerala, South India, uardians o$ the oriins o$
modern martialarts,
inLuenced by ?oa and connected to the ancientIndian sciences o$ war
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ManipuriManipuri
Bharata NatyamBharata Natyam
OdisOdissisi
Mohini AttamMohini Attam
KuchipudiKuchipudi
KathakaliKathakali
ClassicalClassical
*anc+ %os*anc+ %os
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India's ancient achievements in #edical ScienceEnowlede Ancient Ke$erence odern
Ke$erence
Arti!cial imb Ri"ed '1-11D-1#( &0thCentury
Number o$ hromosomes
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India's ancient achievements in $hysical Science
Enowlede Ancient Ke$erence odernKe$erence
9elocity o$ iht Ri"ed - ayan Bhashya '1%00
.(
1)thCentury
TransSaturnean @lanets 4ahabharat '##00 BC( 17-1)thCentury
Space Travel to another solarsystem
hrimad Bha"wat '%000 BC( Fnder trials
:ravitational 2orce
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Any Doubts?
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