Namaste Everyone,
I've been away from my PC for a long time now. Had my 6th semester exams, and as you know about us would-be engineers, we open our books only the night before each dreaded paper. Add an eye infection to this already precarious scenario, and you can understand why there's no post for about a month.
This is the 2nd instalment in the series of posts on India's most famous Mathematician, Aryabhatta. He was also a renowned astronomer, and this post gives credance to the fact that he formulated some very important laws based on his observations.
Our curriculum teach us that theory on Planetary motion was propounded by Johannes Kepler, a German Astronomer and Mathematician. This was done as late as the 17th century AD. But as usual, India had an answer to the same question way back in the 5th Century AD. The following Sloka from Aryabhatiyam-Kalakriyapada gives Aryabhatta's version:
The meaning of this Sloka is as follows:
"The mean planets move on their orbits and the true planets move in eccentric circles. All such planets move with their own motion, anti-clockwise from their apogees and clockwise from their perigees."
So it took around 1200 years for the Western "Civilization" to re-discover something that Aryabhatta had stated in the 5th Century! Truly Amazing!
- Nikhil Mundra
www.gandhistamps.com
www.nikhilloids.blogspot.com
6th June 2009
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3 comments:
Please read Srimad Bhagavatam cover to cover. The unabridged version. Hinduism is FAAAAAR from a scientific religion. It is your father's and granparent's fault that you know nothing about the difference between materialism and spiritualism. Hinduism is absolutely hateful of science and hence your claims of all yagnopavitam is co-incidence. Don't make another misinformed post. Just read Srimad Bhagavatam. Bhagavat gita is shit in front of it. Hell, everything else, except Vedas, is shit in front of the Bhagavatam. Just read the damn book.
THEN come and make another post.
Dear Anonymous,
Please go through all my posts, and keep coming back for more in the future. How can you call so many instances of scientific background in Hinduism (Janehu/Yagnopavitam, Temple tanks, Sacred trees, Ekadasi, etc.) as mere coincidences?
Hinduism is an extremely scientific religion. The problem is that we have not clearly comprehended the deep-rooted reasoning behind our customs, traditions and beliefs. This is exactly what I am aspiring to do - bring out the scientific facets that have hitherto been concealed in the name of religion.
And please do not refer the Sacred texts like the Bhagavad Gita in such despicable terms. In fact, The Gita, in Lord Krishna's discourse to Arjun imparts many management qualities that are useful even in today's world. If you do not subscribe to a particular school of thought, it is not necessary to criticize the same in such harsh and unparliamentary language.
Best Regards
Nikhil Mundra
www.gandhistamps.com
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Oh, god! Srimad Bhagavatam itself says that it's the most superior of ALL the books in the world. I wish I could talk to you since there is only so much I can type. HINDUISM IS 100000% SPIRITUAL AND ANTI-MATERIALISTIC. I read all your posts and I only shook my head. So please read srimad bhagavatam. You don't even know what it is, do you?
And...I can call Vishnu an As****e and he will still love me coz it's krodha BHAKTI. It is recognized as a form of bhakti since you are thinking of him and directing your -ve energy. So is sexual bhakti. But you never knew this did you?
I'm not yet a Brahmama...just so you know.
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