THE GREAT COUNTRY CALLED INDIA - BHARATVARSHA

Some interesting information about India.

* India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of
history.
* India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by
Aryabhatta.
* The World's first university was established in Takshila in 700
BC. The great University of Nalanda was built in the 4th century CE.
* Sanskrit is the mother of most of the European languages.
* Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans.
Charaka, the father of medicine consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago.
* India was the richest country on earth until the time of British
in the early 17th Century. Christopher Columbus was attracted by her
wealth.
* The art of Navigation was born in the river Sindh 6000 years
ago.
* Bhaskaracharya calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit
the sun hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart as 365.258 days.
* The value of "pi" was first calculated by Budhayana, and he
explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. He
discovered this in the 6th century long before the European
mathematicians.
* Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India. Quadratic
equations were propounded by Sridharacharya in the 11th century.
Hindus used numbers as big as 10**53(10 to the power of 53) with
specific names as early as 5000 BCE during the Vedic period.
* According to the Gemological Institute of America, up until
1896, India was the only source for diamonds to the world.
* USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century old suspicion
in the world scientific community that the pioneer of wireless
communication was Prof Jagdeesh Bose and not Marconi.
* The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in
Saurashtra.
* According to Saka King Rudradaman I of 150 CE a beautiful lake
aptly called 'Sudarshana' was constructed on the hills of Raivataka
during Chandragupta Maurya's time.
* Chess (Shataranja or AshtaPada) was invented in India.
* Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health
scientists of his time conducted complicated surgeries like cesareans,
cataract, artificial limbs, fractures, urinary stones and even plastic
surgery and brain surgery.
* Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley (Indus
Valley Civilization) around 5000 years ago
* The place value system and the decimal system ware developed in
India.

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