20/26 ways to contribute to Bharat
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- Date 10 August 2022
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Based on the shastra, we developed the ‘zero’, the base-ten decimal system, now in global use, and crucial trigonometry and algebra formulae as well as many astronomical discoveries.
Mathematical thought was intertwined with linguistics.
Rishi Panini ‘s rules for Sanskrit grammar is still the most complete language in the world and has mathematical precision.
Prof. C.K Raju, a renowned scholar, researched the “clash of epistemologies” that occurred in European ideas about numbers. He said that the first math war in Europe was from 10th to 16th centuries, during which time it took Europe 500 years to accept the zero, because the Church considered it to be heresy.
Not only our grand temples but the Indus-Sarasvati Civilization was the world’s first to build planned towns with underground drainage, civil sanitation, hydraulic engineering, and air-cooling architecture.
Other pioneering items of civil engineering were drainage systems for water (open and closed), irrigation systems, river dams, water storage tanks carved out of rock, moats, middle-class style homes with private bathrooms and drainage, and even a dockyard.
Vaastu-shaastra describes principles of design, layout, and spatial geometry. It integrates architecture with nature for design and layout of houses, towns, cities, gardens, roads and shops. Rust-free steel was an Indian invention. Delhi’s famous iron pillar, dated 402 CE, is considered a metallurgical marvel and shows minimal signs of rust. The famous Damascus steel swords, now displayed in museums across Europe, were made from Indian steel imported by Europeans.
Zinc distillation and metallurgical usage was pioneered in India.
Industrial scale production was pioneered in Rajasthan- Zinc mines have been found in Dariba (11th century BCE), Agucha (sixth century BCE) and Zawar (fifth century BCE). (http://www.indianscience.org/index.html)
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