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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


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.

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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

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*he urya iddhanta,

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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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