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Module 1

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Mayan

ChineseGreek

Egyptian

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Civilization

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Combined

World HeritageIndian

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The peak of Hindu Civilization

Nava gati

The art of navigation

originated in ancient India in

6000BC

India attracted sailors like

Vasco Da Gama

and Columbus

Indians were the first to make Steel, an alloy of iron and carbon This highly valued metal was exported in 800 BC

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Phonetically most sophisticated language, with sounds that explore every part of the throat and mouth

Anta ..end Baad …bath Danta…….dental

Antar…inter Bandh…bond Divya………divine

As……as Bhraata...brother Dvaar………door

Bhru…brow Da-vid…David Gau............Cow

Hrida…….heart Kri….create Loka…locate

Lubh……..Love Mata..Mother Muush…mouse

Namah....name Nas…nose Nav…..navy

Pad…ped Path….path Pitr….Father

Sarpa…serpent Saptan…September Sthal…still

Suunu…….son Tri…three Tva…Tu/you

Uurg…urge Vaach…voice Yuva….juvenile

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Albert Einstein

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count,

without which no worthwhile scientific discovery

could have been made.

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. Our most valuable and most instructive materials

in the history of man are treasured up in India only.

Mark Twain

SUSHRUTA Father of SURGERY

2600 years ago

Even conducted complicated

BRAIN SURGERY

Anesthesia well known in ancient India.

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Made YOGA available to ordinary people

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ARYABHATA

Astronomer And mathematician

Theory of earth being a sphere and rotating around its axis

India’s first satellite was called ‘ARYABHATA’

First to give the closest value of ‘Pi’ as 3.1416

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CONCEPT OF ZERO ORIGINATED IN INDIA 2nd century BC

Algebra, trigonometry and calculus

came from India thousands

of years before Euclid TRIKONAMITI means Measuring Triangular Forms

GYAAMITI (Measuring the Earth) is the Sanskrit word for GEOMETRY

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00000000000.1The place value system, THE DECIMAL SYSTEM was developed in India in 100 BC

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 US

It is very important to note that some 2500 years ago

PYTHAGORAS went from Samos to Ganges

to learn geometry…….

VOLTAIRE

CHARAKA

Medicine-Ayurveda

KAPIL MUNI

Theory of evolution

THE VEDA contain LAWS THAT GOVERN OUR CREATION

GENEOLOGY

REPRODUCTION

MATHEMATICS

ASTRONOMY

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Cosmology Medicine (Ayurveda), Aviation Surgery, Paediatrics Gynaecology, Anatomy Physiology, Pharmacology Embryology, Blood Circulation Rhinoplasty, Amputation Caesarian and Cranial surgeries Anesthesia Antibiotic herbs Atomic theory Chemistry GeographyAlchemical Metals Astronomy and Mathematics Constellation science Botany and Animal scienceAlgebra Arithmetic and GeometryPlanetary positions Eclipses Cosmography Mathematical techniques Force of Gravity The Decimal Metallurgy Bacteria -Viruses Physiology Science of Speech

Vedic culture developsVedas passed down verbally as ‘Shrutis’

The teacher (guru) is seen as one who can help dispel ignorance and lead you to highest knowledge or ‘god’

PLACE OF LEARNING

© Suresh Krishna - February 2004

The Taj Mahal is not a Hindu temple

Gorgeous rock- cut ancient Indian

architecture

One of the greatest

achievements of ancient India in

the field of education

The University of

Nalanda built in the 4th

century BC

The Vedic knowledge provided the basis

for a vibrant urban civilization unmatched anywhere in the world

at that time

The Saraswati-Sindhu Culture

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Tip of India

Sri Lanka

NASA IMAGES OF RAM’S BRIDGE!

RAMAYANA

Ram and Sita

Dwarka

Ram’s capital

AYODHYA

AYUTTHYA,

Thailand

Wednesday, 16 J anuary, 2002, 13:14 GMT

I ndian civilisation '9,000 years old'

ARABIAN OCEAN

INDIAN OCEAN

LAOS

BHARAT

THAILAND

The story of Ram celebrated and enacted in many countries

Hindu temples outside India

NEPAL IS A HINDU

KINGDOM

Burmese

temple

Hindu temples in Java, Indonesia were destroyed by Muslims

Angkor Wat

CAMBODIA

Let us remember that...

India was the motherland of our race and

Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages;

that she was the mother of our philosophy,

mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics;

mother, through Buddha, of the ideals. embodied in Christianity;

mother, through the village community,

of self-government and democracy.

Mother India is, in many ways, the mother of us all.

Will Durant,

'The Case for India', 1930

India’s history has

been misrepresented due to…

*Lost evidence

*Ignorance of Sanskrit

*Misunderstood Symbolism

*British arrogance

THE PASS IN THE HIMALAYAS DOORWAY FOR

GREEKS

MUSLIMS EUROPEANS

Hindu culture spreads to the west

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