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"A man who believes in himself & not circumstances is the real
winner”
- Swami
Please go through below Vivekananda
mentioned facts, which will make
you proud to be an Indian
Who is the creator of Pentium chip (90% of the today's computers run on it)?
Mr. Vinod Dham
Mr. Victor Menezes, Mr. Aman Mehta and Mr. Rana Talwar
Who is the owner of the largest steel company (LNM Group) in the world?
"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"
- Mark Twain.
"If there is one place on the face of earth where all dreams of living men have
found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of
existence, it is India"
- French scholar Romain Rolland
India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever
having to send a single soldier across her border"
- Hu Shih (former China Ambassador to USA)
These facts were recently published in a German Magazine, which deals with
WORLD HISTORY FACTS ABOUT INDIA
India never invaded any country in her last 1000 years of history.
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.
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 Indians
used numbers as big as 1053.
According to the Gemological Institute of America, up until 1896, India was the only
source of diamonds to the world.
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.
The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra.
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.
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).
The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.
Buddhism which spread as far as Japan in the East to Greece in the west,
was founded by Siddartha Gautama Buddha (600 BC) in India.
Two of the world's six oldest languages Sanskrit and Tamil are from India.
The other four are Chinese, Greek, Latin & Arabic. Rules of grammar was
established over 3000 years back for these old languages.
Sanskrit:
Guru, Pundit, Mantra, Sutra, Nirvana, Juggernaut, Raja, Yoga, Jungle,
Orange, Singapore, Aryan, Mandarin (Govt Officer) etc.
Tamil:
Cash (Kaasu), Curry (Kari), Catamaran, Coolie (Kooli), Ginger (Injiver),
Mango (Mann-gai), Mulligatawny, Pariah
Kalari Payat martial art was invented in 500BC in Kerala. Bought
to China through Indian Monk, Bodhidharma. Shaolin temple
monks consider this as parent of Kung-fu and Karate.
World's largest epic/ poetry was written: Mahabharata (2 times the size of
Illiad & Homer combined) was written in Sanskrit 6th century BC
World's largest Moral code containing 1330 verses "Thirukural" was written
in Tamil in 1st century BC
Indians kings built temples 10 storeys high in 1300 years back (700AD)
Indians invented alloys - Steel and Bronze – Eg: Chandra Steel Pillar in Delhi
(Gupta Dynasty 4c AD) and Chola Five Metal Bronze Nataraja (3c AD)
Indian Chola kings sent Marine expeditions in 700 AD across south-east Asia.
Their influence is seen in temples of Angor Wat, Thailand, Indonesia-Bali
even today.
Dirghatamas - who studied the movements of the Earth,the Sun & the Moon & tried to find out the compass of
the Lunar month & Solar Year.
Gautama - who enunciated the principal categories of knowledge, which are in use even today.
Kanaada - the sage who first expounded the Atomic structure of the Universe.
Kapila - whose speculations into science & psychology baffle even the modern thinkers of the West.
Patanjali - who defined the “Origin of species” (Yoga Sutras-IV-2/3) long before Charles Darwin came upon
the scene & whose Yoga scheme of the Pathway to Perfection is the craze of the West today.
Jaimini - whose social & ethical regulations hold good even in the 20th Century A.D. with our misplaced
knowledge about learning,culture & civilization.
Bala Rama - the first Agricultural Engineer of the world, with the symbol of the Plough.
Medhathithi - the super-genius who was the first to extend the numerals to billions by his contributions to the
powers of ten.
SOME GREAT PAST INDIAN PERSONALITIES (Contd..)
Bhaskaracharya - who stated about the mutual attraction that sustains the bodies in space.
Astronomers like Garga & Varaha Mihira who accurately fixed the duration of a Mahayuga as 43,20,000 years, as
now accepted by Western Astronomers.
Latadeva & Srisena who were the first to introduce Greek Astronomy into India.
Amara Simha - the world’s first Lexicographer.
Panini - the first and hitherto unparalleled Grammarian.
Parasurama - the world’s first Reclamation Engineer, to whom goes the credit for the reclamation of the land originally
known as “Bhargavakshetra”,which is today’s Kerala.
Sage Bharadwaja - who presided over the first “Medicinal Plants Symposium” in the world, in about 700 BC.
Kalidasa,Bhavabhooti,Bharavi,Sri Harsha & Magha, the celebrated poets and dramatists, for whom there are no
parallels in any other part of the world.
Shankaracharya - the exponent of Advaita, and the frist to visualize the Theory of Relativity and the Anti-matter
Theory.
Sage Veda Vyasa - whose Vedantic interpretation of the Supreme Reality which people are now beginning to have a
glimpse into.
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.
If we have the vision and work hard, we could once again be an ever shining
and inspiring country setting a bright path for rest of the world to follow.
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