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Home Pune Detail News Printer-friendly version Send by email 0 0 Copy URL Indians knew gravity laws 500 yrs before Newton - Sushant Kulkarni Thursday, 15 April 2010 - 11:01 PM IST Tags: Gravity, Newton, Sanskrit PUNE: Ancient Indian mathematician Bhaskaracharya, in his book Siddhanta Shrirom ani, had defined laws of gravity in 12th century, 500 years before Newton define d them for us. The speed of light was known to Indians since Vedic period, centu ries before it was calculated by the Western world. Maitree, a group of professionals from Tata Consultancy Services and Bengaluru-b ased NGO Sanskrit Bharati have come together with a unique exhibition, Pride of India, to spread awareness about India's rich scientific heritage. The exhibition will showcase 150 posters, each explaining one Sanskrit shloka fr om ancient Indian scientific literature. The shlokas (verses) by ancient scientis ts and mathematicians like Bhaskaracharya, Baudhayana, Apastambha, Bhaskarachary a's daughter Leelavati have been showcased in the exhibition. says Aashish Manjar amkar, exhibition coordinator. Our aim is to tell that zero is not the only contr ibution that Indians have made to science and maths. he adds. Manjramkar tells, Very few of us know that speed of light was known to Indians in Vedic period. A shloka says that the speed of light is 2202 yojana per half nim ish. Yojana is a unit of distance which equals to 9.06 miles and half a nimish (nimishardha) is one tenth of a second. The figure is very close to the modern m easurement of speed of light. Sanskrit Bharati, which works in all major cities of India and also in 16 USA ci ties., was established in 1983 and works for promotion of Sanskrit as spoken lan guage. The organisation regularly stages such events across India. The venue of the exhibition is The TCS's Quadra office at Magarpatta city on Friday. For more information about the exhibition call Madhav Kelkar at 9422361095 or Aashish Ma njramkar at 9422188702. Geography One of the shlokas in the exhibition describes a conversation between and his dau ghter Leelavati, who also was a mathematician. The conversation beautifully expl ains spherical shape of earth, gravitation force that keeps planets revolving in space, says Manjaramkar. 0 0 Comment H.Srinivasa Dikshit - Saturday, 1 May 2010 - 03:30 PM IST All ssaid and done, How are we going to develop this knowledge in to usable info rmation , when learning Sanskritam is not promoted.learning Vedas are not of int rest to people. Sanskritam got the source for todays SQL used in softy ware.Mima msa is of logic of questioning for searchi engins etc. 0 0 Dileep Sathe - Friday, 23 April 2010 - 07:14 PM IST Indians could have thought of gravity, before Newton, on seeing things falling.

Indeed, this is quite possible. But now this claim has to be brought forward thr ough the appropriate journals - like the Physics Physics, a well known bimonthly of the U.K. - authors have to try it. I have been publishing research notes in the said journal for some years - so willing to offer academic assistance to aut hors in preparing the manuscript. 0 0 V. Padmanaabha Sarma - Monday, 19 April 2010 - 07:14 AM IST Indian born non-Indians must know that this group is exposing the same points wh ich have been published several times and this repetion is for the benifit of pe ople who missed to learn in earlier occasions. Since we do not have a congenial government to introduce these great things into our school lessons, the educator s and polititions being in awe and submission to achivements of west. The 500 co unt is not allowing me to give my own direct experience in the matter. Pl.do not cticise this work 0 0 Vishvaksenah - Saturday, 17 April 2010 - 09:41 PM IST Extremely happy to read this news. I neve knew Sanskrit contained such treasures . i was under the impression that Sanskrit is just a language of performing some mumbo jumbo religious ceremonies. Kudos to Samskrita Bharati and Sakaal times fo r publishing this news. 0 0 Shankerprasad S Bhatt M.Com - Friday, 16 April 2010 - 10:02 PM IST India is first in many fields This news adds to India's glory My friend Niranjan writes about such subjects in his column in India Tribune Very important facts for ancient India Truly yours Shankerprasad S Bhatt Author of 'Prayers of all Re ligions of the world visit my web site "worldprayers.googlepages.com 0 0 P.S.Yogamaya - Friday, 16 April 2010 - 08:25 PM IST We were lucky to receive Sir Dinesh Kamat of Samskrita Bharati as a guest in our Sanskrit Dept., Bhubaneswar to know earlier about the exhibition.Really this is to create and supply awareness and information resceptively to common people ab out Samskrit. In this connection Samskrit people has much to do; not only to tra ce out the already existing theories of Science but also some new inventions.Som ething should be invented in between 'it was' and 'it can be' for the whole mank ind. 0 0 Umashankar - Friday, 16 April 2010 - 07:58 PM IST Indians knew so much more. Just that they were not cunning enough to patent it a nd make materialistic use of it! :) The revival will happen and we will have tru e spirit of India restored soon. The world is witnessing the worst woes of weste rnization! Lets wait and watch the unfolding of Indian era.. 0 0 Dhana Rao Munuma - Friday, 16 April 2010 - 02:59 PM IST Thnaks for ur efforts. Please provide the conversation between Bhaskaracharya an d his daughter Leelavati. 0 0 Raghunath - Friday, 16 April 2010 - 01:35 PM IST Similar to this there are so many things that Indians are to be proud off. But w hich Indian has time to know their rich heritage? They are after SRK/IPL/ etc... ...... 0 0 Dhiraj P.Chandwani - Friday, 16 April 2010 - 12:31 PM IST If its true that Indians knew gravity laws 500 yrs before Newton then why are yo u telling us now you must tell this fact very before 0 0 Bhalchandra - Friday, 16 April 2010 - 04:52 AM IST A VERY LAUDABLE EFFORT 0 0 Add new comment Your name *

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