2007-11-21 05:10
Bharath Gyan, a Chennai-based NGO engaged in research on India's traditions and culture, has produced a report which states that Lord Ram did indeed exist, and even put a date on his birth:… Read More
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2007-10-12 09:27
We all know the popular story behind the Taj Mahal. It goes like this.. It was built by the Moghul Emperor, Shah Jahan, in memory of his wife Mumtaz Mahal,designed by Ustad Isa of Iran, co… Read More
2007-10-04 09:02
One of the most interesting puzzles in archaeology, and one that hasn't been completely solved yet, concerns the story of the supposed Aryan invasion of the Indian subcontinent.The story goe… Read More
2007-10-03 06:10
In 1941,having escaped imprisonment at home,Subhas Chandra Bose reached Afghanistan by assuming the guise of a Pashtun insurance agent ("Ziaudddin"). He then traveled to Moscow on the passp… Read More
2007-10-01 12:00
Aryabhata gave tables of half chords which are now known as sine tables, along with cosine tables. He used zya for sine, kotizya for cosine, and otkram zya for inverse sine, and also introdu… Read More
2007-09-30 15:11
The Rudraksha is a large evergreen broad-leaved tree which grows in the area from the Gangetic Plain to the foothills of the Himalayas. Rudraksha trees are also found in middle areas of Nepa… Read More
2007-09-28 16:26
Man's first known trip to the dentist occurred as early as 9,000 years ago, when at least 9 people living in a Neolithic village in Pakistan had holes drilled into their molars and survived… Read More
2007-09-28 07:43
Controversy exists regarding the appropriateness of Jana Gana Mana as the national anthem of an independent India. The poem was composed in December 1911, precisely at the time of the Corona… Read More
2007-09-28 05:15
Mohandas Gandhi was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1937, 1938, 1939, 1947 and, finally, a few days before he was murdered in January 1948, but but was never awarded th… Read More
2007-09-26 15:40
Did Ancient Hindus perfect the science of cloning or were Kauravas products of a technology that modern science has not even (re)developed yet?(or is it just fiction?)According to the descri… Read More
2007-09-25 17:07
Sayana (1315-1387) was a minister in the court of King Bukka I of the Vijayanagar Empire in South India; he was also a great Vedic scholar. In his commentary on the fourth verse of the hymn… Read More
2007-09-24 06:00
Was the Mahabharata war a nuclear war? Were weapons of mass destruction used in the war? Think twice before dismissing it as an absurd theory.These are some of the references in Mahabharata… Read More
2007-09-23 13:59
Indian astronomers has made the important discovery that the stars visible at night are similar to the Sun visible during day time.There is an old Sanskrit shloka (couplet) which states "Sa… Read More
2007-09-23 13:20
Gola 16: The gods living in the north at the Meru mountain (north pole) see one half of the Bhagola (celestial sphere with its centre at the centre of the earth) as revolving… Read More
2007-09-22 06:51
The word for universe in Sanskrit is "Brahmanda", which is made by joining of words "Brahma" and "Anda". Brahma is derived from root "Briha" meaning to expand and… Read More
2007-09-22 03:51
The Surya Siddhanta, a textbook on astronomy of ancient India, calculated the distance from earth to moon as 253,000 miles. The modern measurement i… Read More
2007-09-21 10:12
Aryabhata claims that the Earth turns on its own axis and some elements of his planetary epicyclic models rotate at the same speed as the motion of the planet around the Sun. Some interprete… Read More
2007-09-21 10:01
The History of metallurgy in the Indian subcontinent dates back to 1700 BCE. Metals and related concepts were mentioned in various early Vedic age texts. The Rigveda already uses the Sanskri… Read More
2007-09-21 09:47
India has given the idea of the smallest and the largest measure of time.Krati Krati = 34,000th of a second 1 Truti = 300th of a second2 Truti = 1 Luv 2 Luv = 1 Kshana 30 Kshana = 1 Vipal 60… Read More
2007-09-21 09:39
The concept of the atom in ancient India derives from the classification of the material world in five basic elements by Indian philosophers.This classification existed since Vedic times (c… Read More
2007-09-21 09:21
THE GRAND ANICUT, KALLANAI, believed to be the Oldest Dam in the World, is still in use today. It is located on the Cauvery River, 24 km from Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu. This masonry dam wa… Read More
2007-09-19 11:20
The ancient text of Agastya Samhita describes the method of making electric battery, and that water can be split into oxygen and hydrogen."Sansthapya Mrinmaya Patre Tamrapatram Susanskritam… Read More
2007-09-18 05:30
The Surya Siddhanta, a textbook on astronomy of ancient India - last compiled in 1000 BC, believed by Hindus to be handed down from 3000 BC by aid o… Read More
2007-09-17 10:41
The existence of rather advanced concepts like the sphericity of Earth is explained in Vedic literature. Aitareya Brahmana (3.44) declares: “The Sun does never set nor rise. When pe… Read More
2007-09-15 07:12
In Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna tells Arjuna:"All the worlds from Brahma's world (the universe) are periodic. Arjuna. They, those who know the day and night, know that the day of Brahma is… Read More
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