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Pramanas- Sources of knowledge in Indian philosophy

Vedic-Śruti(Vedas) supreme!
Nyaya-Pratyakṣa(Empirical)>Anumāna(Inference)
Jaina-Intuition supreme!
Buddhist-Empirical>>inference
Charvaka-Empirical supreme!

Ancient Greeks-Inference supreme!

Modern Science-Empirical supreme!
Science freed itself from the Greek madness. But mathematics is still drunk with notions of proof, 'truth' & 'perfection'

Indian mathematicians- the guys who ACTUALLY invented most of Math-did not think like that. They accepted the Empirical

It's time Math returned to its roots
Mathematics has been forced into Platos belief that 'empirical is inferior' & Proclus' belief that math is 'eternal truth'. That bivalued Aristotelian logic is universal

Science & Indian philosophy says-
Your logical constructs are worthless, if they contradict experiment & fact
The simplest examples-
-Ancient Indians learned and did math with ropes and bricks!
-A single piece of rope can do everything all instruments in a geometry box can do.

The idealist Greek would laugh at Baudhayana's rope and brick !
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The Sulba sutras were written in the 2nd millenium BCE long before Greeks even existed. Sulba means 'rope' or 'chord'. The rope was an important tool in Vedic education before Macaulay anglicized us. The ancient rope was abandoned as 'imperfect'

Rope v/s geometry box.
Fight!
Rope v/s Geometry box

Looks like the winner is obvious.
Baudhayana has the last laugh!
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Why learn Sanskrit?

Because it is the oldest recorded language on Earth
Because many of the greatest intellectual strides were scripted on its palm leaves
Because an ocean of information & wisdom remains untapped in its granthas
Because it is the only bhāṣā that can unite India
Because it has the potential to turn all Indians irrespective of his/her religion into patriots
Because it can resolve many of the conflicts plaguing us if revealed & taught truthfully
Because the most glorious pages of our history remain condemned to oblivion yet preserved in it
Because it has the most perfect grammar ever laid down
Because it is the closest daughter of PIE, the source of 445 IE languages spoken by over 40% of humanity.
Because, too great to die, it is still spoken by thousands
Because most of the words in your mother tongue is sanskrit!
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Indians like blind fools celebrate the Gregorian calendar's new year

They have forgotten the ancient panchānga & its history
That colonialists forcibly replaced it with their imperial yet inferior calendar
That the Gregorian reform was done with it's help

Teach it to everyone!
The Gregorian calendar with it's superstitious AD-BC notation was used as an imperial & religious tool to hammer church history on the world. Today it is taken as an unquestionable fact by all of humanity that this system validates the life of Jesus.
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Why does no historian with 'secular credentials' protest this? Why is it that even the best scholars, once indoctrinated with western version of history, is mentally unable to question so many flawed decisions? Why?

Won't there be another wave of #IntoleranceDebate if we try?
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There are only a very few named swords in Sanskrit literature.The holy swords include-

Asi- Passed down through many Kings such as Kshupa, Nahusha, Bharata, Ailavila, Pratardana & also Drona

Chandrahasa- 'laughter of the moon', of Ravana Paulastya

Nistrimsha- Pradyumna's sword
Ceremonial double edged antennae sword from Sanauli. Measures 49.3 cm in length & 3.4 cm breadth with a mid-rib. The hilt flares out to 21 cms. The copper sheath 37cms long was buried without it's sword or master- perhaps cremated or his body unrecovered.
Fig I- A true copper sword from Mohenjodaro (37.80 × 3.70 cm) from Mature Harappan period. This could be the oldest intact war worthy blade from the Indian subcontinent.

Fig II- Another ceremonial copper antennae sword measuring 43 x 3.84 cm from Sanauli.
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Is this name India derived from Indus as we have been taught from childhood or the name actually derived from Indra- The God of the Purus(Vedic Aryans). Indra(just replace 'r' with 'i') -> India.
we don't know what type of Sanskrit dialect other tribes like the Iksvakus, Yadus, Turvashus, etc used to spoke. Iranians(Anu descendants) used to pronounce some words with replacement of 'S' with 'H' like Sindhu->Hindu, Sarayu->Harayu, Sarasvati->Harahvati, Soma->Homa, etc,
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If you want to kill people, the most effective way to do this in the modern era (since gun laws and annoying people like the Police will make things awkward) is to persuade people to stop (or never start) a statin.

Over the long term, 1 in 10 will be killed by that choice.
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