Stories acquire deep importance in pedagogy in ancient India and were a key instrument to communicate some wisdom. Several ancient works including Upanishads and Puranas contain conversations that recourse to entertaining stories to reinforce a moral or an aphorism. Most people are familiar with the Panchatantra and Vikramaditya-Vetala stories that
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In this talk, the speaker highlights the many contributions by ancient Indic scientists and thinkers over vast periods of time, and show the understated but dramatic impact of those ideas both in the ancient world, and in contemporary times. Using selected examples from technology, medicine, music, math, astronomy and grammar,
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In this talk, the speaker highlights the many contributions by ancient Indic scientists and thinkers over vast periods of time, and show the understated but dramatic impact of those ideas both in the ancient world, and in contemporary times. Using selected examples from technology, medicine, music, math, astronomy and grammar,
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In this talk, the speaker highlights the many contributions by ancient Indic scientists and thinkers over vast periods of time, and show the understated but dramatic impact of those ideas both in the ancient world, and in contemporary times. Using selected examples from technology, medicine, music, math, astronomy and grammar,
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbRSU9qkdCQ The Vedic system, the caste system, kept the lower classes to their positions without giving them access to studies and other such things and that accounts a widespread poverty in India; that is what Marxist would like you to believe, and that's what has been pushed in the textbooks, like
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Source: - @subhashkak1 / Twitter. https://twitter.com/subhashkak1/status/1141047243010707456
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC68JY7tPCA Conventional language, if you look at it, its all object specific. What is this in English? Hand… What is this? What is this? That’s all. Someone told us.., taught us.., we learnt it. But you do not have the right to ask why it is called ‘Hand’? Why this is
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Source: @TrueIndology/Twitter https://twitter.com/TrueIndology/status/1084081051893346305 https://twitter.com/TrueIndology/status/1084499845434482688 https://twitter.com/TrueIndology/status/1084503289113260038 https://twitter.com/TrueIndology/status/1084505266639552513 https://twitter.com/TrueIndology/status/1084509163047305216 https://twitter.com/TrueIndology/status/1084510975733178368 Featured Image Credit: http://columbiasurgery.org/news/2015/05/28/history-medicine-ancient-indian-nose-jobs-origins-plastic-surgery
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Source: Subhash Kak/Twitter Those who turn away from India because they think it is about jati and power (sadly this includes many "academic scholars") are deluded. They don't understand either the past or the present. The heart of India is about inner and outer knowledge:https://t.co/IYqds6RvwB — Subhash Kak (@subhashkak1) November 10, 2018 Featured Image Credit: https://medium.com/@subhashkak1/indian-foundations-of-modern-science-72259046700f
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Source: Vajrayudha11/Twitter Great libraries of Ancient India - Proud Leagacy of our ancient past
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