"Portuguese, Dutch and English have been, year after year, shipping home treasures of India in their big vessels. We Germans have been left to watch it. Schlegel, Bopp, Humboldt etc are our East Indian sailors. Bonn and Munich(Universities) will be good factories"
-Georg Brandes
The west is drunk with a false notion that their 17th century philosophical explosion is an independent achievement. A neurotic & successful self-deception. But the truth is, from Kant to Nietzsche, Vedic-Buddhist philosophy and logic was ripped to shreds to make it happen.
Which is fine. Its wisdom after all. Take & share. Just as the Rishis and Bodhisattvas intended. But to drain the mind of a civilization for centuries, even as you colonize it into ruin, deny the intellectual debts while corrupting every page of its history with racist garbage...
The original quote is from Christian Johann Heinrich Heine(1797-1856). My hasty error.
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Celestial wheel turns in 360 days
Dirgatamas~2600BCE
True year is between 365 & 366
Yajur,2400BCE
366 for civil use!
Lagadha,1370 BCE
Correction month in 2.5 yrs!
Kautilya,300BC
365.2588
Surya Sid-200CE
365.2585
Aryabhata
Modern sidereal-365.25636
1560-Christopher Clavius sends several Jesuits to Kerala to learn Jyotisha, accurate trignometric tables etc
1582-Gregorian calendar adopted with Indian Ahargana system('Julian numbers'); 11 October days dropped
1752-British empire adopts Gregorian
1956-India adopts Gregorian
Aryabhata's value is off by just 3mins 20sec. The true solar year is the sidereal, not the Tropical one which the Gregorian continues to use, along with many unscientific & arbitrary absurdities such as '28' Feb days.
'Jan 1' has no significance whatsoever. Well, Happy new year!
Here are reasons for inadmissibility of 'Subtrate' arguments- 1. Many(including Lubotsky) themselves admit that they are arbitrarily using the word 'Substrate' as against 'adstrate'. This invalidates any attempt to use it as evidence of AIT.
From Talageri-
2. The vast majority of words tortured up- and all of so called BMAC words- are either late or post Rig Vedic
3. If these adstrates are proof of AIT, then the HUGE Semitic, old European and Uralic loans in western branches which are ABSENT in Indo-Iranian & Tocharian proves OIT
4. It is known that Austroasiatic/Munda immigrated into India after~4000BP. Irrelevant to OIT. Witzel's 'Para Munda' falls flat.
5. Isidone Dyen has demonstrated co-development between PIE and Proto-Austronesian. This is possible ONLY in OIT scenario. nature.com/articles/s4159…
The Govt should commission a new Purana in Sanskrit. It should cover the entire recorded history of the civilization state of Bharatam in the native perspective. From the spread of Indo-European tribes from Sapta Sindhu(3500-2000 BCE) to the 1st war of Independence in 1857 CE.
It should then be translated to every vernacular. The Puranas are the world's oldest historical tradition originally created by 100s of Vedic era court bards/Pauranikas. There is no need for us to blindly follow the colonial methods of histography whose pollution must be removed.
Purana writing continued even till modern times. True, lots of ahistorical stories, mythology, exaggerations & chronological errors have crept into the major puranas over the last 3500 years. These shortcomings must be corrected while we extract history from original Vedic texts.
"The first cause was a self aware singularity.The truth is ∞"
Yajnavalkya, 2000 BCE
"There is nothing permanent. Not even the self. The truth is 0"
Buddha, 500 BCE
"Truth is multifaceted. Both 0 & ∞"
Mahavira, 500 BCE
"Mathematically I found that 0=1/∞"
Bhaskara II, 1150 CE
This is why Europe would never have discovered zero and calculus on its own even after a thousand years. They simply did not have the phisosophical foundation for it. They did it the easy way- mass plagiarism of Indian hard work.
This is also why Indic darsanas(Vedic, Jain and Buddhist) should not be treated as 'religions'. They are not a bunch of dogmas at eternal conflict with each other like middle Eastern faiths. They are high philosophies that directly inspired modern mathematics.
-Baudhayana was the first mathematician to state the law. His successor Apasthamba(~1600 BCE) was the first mathematician to state the Baudhayana theorem WITH proof.
-Baudhayana also stumbled upon Proto-Bījagaṇita . He investigated the basic forms (ax^2=c) and (ax^2+bx=c)
Sulba Sutras are appendages to mathematical sections of older Brahmana texts with complex altar constructions(~2000 BCE)
-The math & metrology of Vedic texts are found applied ONLY IN Mature Harappan cities(2600–1900 BCE)
-The antiquity of this Indian knowledge is indisputable