THE JOURNEY OF ZERO
The English word Zero draws its origin from Indian word shunya as it travelled from India, westward.
The travel of Zero from India to Europe, through Persia, Arabia, Central Europe to England & through the centuries, shows how & when Shunya morphed to Zero.
The English word Zero draws its origin from Indian word shunya as it travelled from India, westward.
The travel of Zero from India to Europe, through Persia, Arabia, Central Europe to England & through the centuries, shows how & when Shunya morphed to Zero.
While there seems to be no connection linguistically between the word Shunya and Zero, this travel chart of Zero, shows not only the geographical route taken but also the linguistic route it morphed through.
All of this has been well brought out in this Encyclopaedia entry.
The Indian knowledge system had well understood the process of Creation of the Universe and the concept of Hiranyagarbha, the golden glowing, cosmic egg from which everything arose. Hiranyagarbha denoted the nothingness from which emanated the entire Universe.
Hence they adopted the shape of an egg, as a dot, to denote Shunya, zero, which, everything, including every aspect of Mathematics also arose.
The very word Shunya etymologically comes from nya in Samskrt meaning nothing, none etc. Shunya means to decrease, to vanish, be nothing as compared to Shuyati meaning to increase, to spread, to grow big.
The Indians offered to the world, the name shunya for zero, an explanation for the concept of zero and the symbol 0 for zero.
Zero is truly a brand of Bharat.
Zero is truly a brand of Bharat.
If, among the many brands of Bharat, only a few are to be placed on her tiara, then Zero certainly will find a central place there.
Bharat came to be known for “Nothing”.
“Nothing” is a brand of India.
Bharat came to be known for “Nothing”.
“Nothing” is a brand of India.
