Science Tech Sanskrit Ancient India MGPrasad
-
Upload
swanand-raikar -
Category
Documents
-
view
217 -
download
0
Transcript of Science Tech Sanskrit Ancient India MGPrasad
-
8/9/2019 Science Tech Sanskrit Ancient India MGPrasad
1/35
Science,Technology and Sanskritin Ancient India
Presented by:
Dr. M.G. Prasad
Department Of Mechanical Engineering,
Stevens Institute Of Technology
-
8/9/2019 Science Tech Sanskrit Ancient India MGPrasad
2/35
In recent decades the scholarly study of science andcivilization in China has influenced historiansconcerned with the history of science and technologyin India. But, alas, no comprehensive synthesis has
yet appeared to match the studies of China
Given its technological complexity, India actually
underwent an astonishing process ofdeindustrialization with the coming of formal Britishrule in the nineteenth century
James E. McClellan III and Harod Dorn
Science and Technology in World History: An Introduction
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999
-
8/9/2019 Science Tech Sanskrit Ancient India MGPrasad
3/35
The Hindus have made considerable advances inastronomy, algebra, arithmetic, botany, and medicine,not to mention their superiority in grammar, longbefore some of these sciences were cultivated by themost ancient nations of Europe. Hence, it hashappened that I have been painfully reminded duringthe progress of this dictionary that a Sanskrit
lexicographer ought to aim at a kind of quasi-omniscience.
Sir Monier- Williams in the Introduction in his
Sanskrit English Dictionary, 1899
-
8/9/2019 Science Tech Sanskrit Ancient India MGPrasad
4/35
VedicScriptural Knowledge
represented as an Inverted TreeThe Roots above refer to the One Source(Bramhan).
The one main body of transcendental(Apaurusheya) knowledge - Vedas - isclassified into 4 majorVedas
Rik, Yajus, Sama, Atharva.
The Vedic literature deals with all aspects oflife including
spirituality, philosophy, yoga,
religion, rituals, temples,
arts and culture, music, dance,
grammar, pronunciation, metre
astrology, astronomy, logic, law
medicine, surgery, technology,
martial arts, military strategy, etc.
Integrated knowledge ofSpirituality and Science
-
8/9/2019 Science Tech Sanskrit Ancient India MGPrasad
5/35
-
8/9/2019 Science Tech Sanskrit Ancient India MGPrasad
6/35
-
8/9/2019 Science Tech Sanskrit Ancient India MGPrasad
7/35
-
8/9/2019 Science Tech Sanskrit Ancient India MGPrasad
8/35
Place of Articulation
-
8/9/2019 Science Tech Sanskrit Ancient India MGPrasad
9/35
-
8/9/2019 Science Tech Sanskrit Ancient India MGPrasad
10/35
Sanskrits potential for scientific use was greatlyenhanced as a result of the thorough systemization ofits grammar by Panini On the basis of just under4000 sutras (rules expressed as aphorisms), he built
virtually the whole structure of the Sanskrit language,whose general shape hardly changed for the next twothousand years An indirect consequence of Paninisefforts to increase the linguistic facility of Sanskrit
soon became apparent in the character of scientificand mathematical literature
G. G. JosephThe crest of the peacock
Princeton University Press (2000)
-
8/9/2019 Science Tech Sanskrit Ancient India MGPrasad
11/35
-
8/9/2019 Science Tech Sanskrit Ancient India MGPrasad
12/35
-
8/9/2019 Science Tech Sanskrit Ancient India MGPrasad
13/35
-
8/9/2019 Science Tech Sanskrit Ancient India MGPrasad
14/35
-
8/9/2019 Science Tech Sanskrit Ancient India MGPrasad
15/35
-
8/9/2019 Science Tech Sanskrit Ancient India MGPrasad
16/35
-
8/9/2019 Science Tech Sanskrit Ancient India MGPrasad
17/35
-
8/9/2019 Science Tech Sanskrit Ancient India MGPrasad
18/35
Vedanga Jyotisha by Lagadha 1500 B.C.
-
8/9/2019 Science Tech Sanskrit Ancient India MGPrasad
19/35
-
8/9/2019 Science Tech Sanskrit Ancient India MGPrasad
20/35
Aryabhata I 476 A.D.
-
8/9/2019 Science Tech Sanskrit Ancient India MGPrasad
21/35
Sulvasutras ~800 B.C.
-
8/9/2019 Science Tech Sanskrit Ancient India MGPrasad
22/35
Leelavati by Bhaskara II 1114 A.D.
-
8/9/2019 Science Tech Sanskrit Ancient India MGPrasad
23/35
Baudhayana in
Sulvasutras ~800 B.C.Pythagoras ~540 B.C.
-
8/9/2019 Science Tech Sanskrit Ancient India MGPrasad
24/35
Leelavati
by Bhaskara II
1114 A.D.
Sulva Sutras of Vedic Mathematics
-
8/9/2019 Science Tech Sanskrit Ancient India MGPrasad
25/35
Sulva Sutras of Vedic Mathematics
@kaixken pUvRe[(by one more than the previous one)
Vedic Mathematics by H.H.Bharati Krishna Tirtha 1884-1960
-
8/9/2019 Science Tech Sanskrit Ancient India MGPrasad
26/35
-
8/9/2019 Science Tech Sanskrit Ancient India MGPrasad
27/35
Siddhanta Shiromani by Bhaskara II 1114 A.D.
-
8/9/2019 Science Tech Sanskrit Ancient India MGPrasad
28/35
-
8/9/2019 Science Tech Sanskrit Ancient India MGPrasad
29/35
Susruta ~200 B.C.
-
8/9/2019 Science Tech Sanskrit Ancient India MGPrasad
30/35
Charaka ~200 B.C.
Metallurgy
-
8/9/2019 Science Tech Sanskrit Ancient India MGPrasad
31/35
gy
-
8/9/2019 Science Tech Sanskrit Ancient India MGPrasad
32/35
Pillar Fabrication ~375 A.D.
-
8/9/2019 Science Tech Sanskrit Ancient India MGPrasad
33/35
Whatever sphere of human mind you may select for
your special study, whether it be language, or religion,
or mythology or philosophy, whether it be laws or
customs, primitive art or primitive science, everywhere you have to go to India. Whether you like it or
not because some of the most valuable and most
instructive materials in the history of man aretreasured up in India and in India only
Max Muller
(ref: A short History of Sanskrit Literatrure)
T. K. Ramachandra Iyer, R.S. Vadhyar & sons, 1984
Summary
-
8/9/2019 Science Tech Sanskrit Ancient India MGPrasad
34/35
y
-
8/9/2019 Science Tech Sanskrit Ancient India MGPrasad
35/35
Acknowledgements
Chetan Bhatt
Ananta Ambuga M.G.Sampath Kumar
M.G.Narasimhan M.G.Raghunandan
Indian Institute of Scientific Heritage(www.iish.org)