TECHNOLOGY/ ACCOMPLISHMENTS
OF ANCIENT INDIA
FEW ANCEDOTES
Presented by
Mahipal Ravipati
Ma3, 2017
Knowledge Sharing Forun
AIR TRAVEL
• Mentioned in various epics like Ramayana and Mahabharatha
• च मायामयो दिव्यः खर युक्तः खर स्वनः |
• प्रत्यदृश्यत हे माांगो रावणस्य महारथः || ३-४९-१९
• 19. [then]; maayaamayaH = miraculously [designed for appearing and
disappearing]; divyaH khara yuktaH = miraculous; Chariot yoked with;
khara svanaH = braying, noisily; hema angaH = golden, with wheels
[parts]; raavaNasya saH mahaarathaH = Ravana's, that, miracle-airchariot; prati adR^ishyata = afore, appeared.
• Then the miracle-air-chariot of Ravana which is miraculously designed to
appear and disappear at the wish of its master, yoked with miraculous
mules, and built with its golden wheels and parts, appeared afore
Ravana braying noisily. [3-49-19]
• ताम् अकामाम् स काम आततः पन्नग इन्द्र वधूम् इव |
• दववेष्टमानाम् आिाय उत्पपात अथ रावणः || ३-४९-२२
• 22. atha = then; kaama aartaH = with lust, infatuated; saH
raavaNaH = that, Ravana; a kaamaam = not, inclined - one
disinclined for lusting; pannaga indra vadhuum iva = cobra, king,
wife, like; vi veSTamaanaam = one who is verily, writhing; taam
aadaaya = her, on picking her up; [vegena = speedily]; ut papaata
= up, fallen - fell upon the skies, flew off.
• Ravana who is infatuated with lust picked her up, which lady is
disinclined for any kind of sensuality and who is verily writhing
like the wife of King Cobra, and then he surged skyward and flew
off with her in his air-chariot. [3-49-22]
• तेष्वारूढे षु सवेषु कौबेरम् परमासनम् || ६-१२२-२५
• राघवेणाभ्यनुज्ञातमुत्पपात दवहायसम् |
• 25. teShu sarveShu = when all of them; aaruuDheShu =
ascended; paramaasanam = that excellent aerial car;
kauberam = belonging to Kubera; utpapaata = flew;
vihaayasam = into the sky; abhyanujJNaatam = after
having been duly authorized; raaghaveNa = by Rama.
• When all of them ascended, that excellent aerial car,
belonging to Kubera, flew into the sky, after having been
duly authorized by Rama.
Shiva’s Trishul Peru
Lonar Crater lake maharashtra
• "The vimana had all necessary equipment. It
could not be conquered by the gods or
demons. And it radiated light and
reverberated with a deep rumbling sound. Its
beauty captivated the minds of all who
beheld it. Visvakarma, the lord of its design
and construction, had created it by the power
of his austerities, and its outline, like that of
the sun, could not be easily delineated.
(Mahabharata)
KING SALVA’S AERIAL CAR
• The airplane occupied by Salva was very mysterious.
It was so extraordinary that sometimes many
airplanes would appear to be in the sky, and
sometimes there were apparently none. Sometimes
the plane was visible and sometimes not visible, and
the warriors of the Yadu dynasty were puzzled about
the whereabouts of the peculiar airplane. Sometimes
they would see the airplane on the ground,
sometimes flying in the sky, sometimes resting on the
peak of a hill, and sometimes floating on the water.
The wonderful airplane flew in the sky like a whirling
firebrand—it was not steady even for a moment."
• he thereupon released a great and powerful
weapon which "flew through the sky with a
roaring sound like a great meteor". The text
describes it as being so bright that it literally
"lit up the entire sky". This sounds a lot like a
blazing rocket! As Krishna began his
counterattack, Salva engages the special
powers of his vimana in an all out effort to
avoid destruction.
BIBLE SPACESHIPS
• Then I looked, and behold, a whirlwind was coming
out of the north, a great cloud with raging fire
engulfing itself; and brightness was all around it and
radiating out of its midst like the color of amber, out
of the midst of the fire.
• The appearance of the wheels and their workings
was like the color of beryl, and all four had the same
likeness. The appearance of their workings was, as it
were, a wheel in the middle of a wheel.
• When they moved, they went toward any one of four
directions; they did not turn aside when they went.
BIBLE
• Erich von Däniken had pointed to the possibility
of interpreting Ezekiel's vision as a report of an
extraterrestrial spacecraft, Blumrich decided to
disprove the hypothesis. However, a thorough
examination convinced him that Ezekiel had, in
fact, seen a spaceship. He then made detailed
drawings of the alien craft. He decided the
technology of the builders must have been
somewhat higher than mankind's at the present,
and added he had seldom felt as delighted,
satisfied, and fascinated by being proven wrong
ANCIENT ASTRONAUTS
ASTRONOMY
KURUKSHETRA WAR
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Eve of war 2 comets ( grahau tamrarunau sikhau prajvalathau
gatimatah)
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Saturn at aldebaran rohini always indicative of large scale
calamities 9/11
• 3. Mars retrograde motion at Antares jyeshta
• 4. Lunar eclipse in karthika month near pleaides
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Followed by solar eclipse at Antares
• 6. Another lunar eclipse 13 days after the solar eclipse
• 7. 5000 BC to 500 AD
• 8. 2183 BC and 3067 BC had all the criteria met
• 9. Except the last lunar eclipse as described by Vyasa
• 10. October 3067 was fixed as the year of the great war
• 11. Another group of researchers fixed the date as 5531 BC
TIME CYCLES
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Kali Yuga: The Iron Age
A.D. 500 to A.D. 1700 (1,200 years)
Descent into materialism, ignorance, and forgetfulness
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Dwapara Yuga: The Bronze Age
A.D. 1700 to A.D. 4100 (2,400 years)
Technological progress, conquest of space
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Treta Yuga: The Silver Age
A.D. 4100 to A.D. 8900 (3,600 years)
Telepathy, conquest of time
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Satya Yuga: The Golden Age
A.D. 8900 to A.D. 13,700 (4,800 years)
Harmony with nature, human divinity,One with God
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Basic time cycle 24, 000 yrs
1,000 cycles 24 mill years
Called mahayuga
Time taken by sun to complete
One orbit around the center of galaxy
Is 10 mahayugas 240 mill years
Its called kalpa 2.4 bill yrs day/night of Brahma
10 kalpas are called mahakalpa 24 billion yrs
10 mahakalpas are termed Manvantara
That is 240 billion years
And they repeat
UNITS OF TIME SMALLER THAN
SECOND
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Truti
Renu
Lava
Līkṣaka
Lipta
Definition Relation to SI units
त्रुदत Base unit ≈ 0.031 µs
रे णु 60 Truti ≈ 1.86 µs
लव 60 Renu ≈ 0.11 ms
लीक्षक
60 Lava ≈ 6.696 ms
दलप्ता
60 Leekshaka ≈ 0.401 s
QUNTUM MECHANICS
• Yoga Vashishtha, the text which states conversations
between Vashistha, a rig vedic teacher, and various Gods
and Kakbhushubdi. conversations talk about the atoms or
anu at quanta m level and inside each quantum level are
different universes. A sorrowful queen is shown that her
husband is still alive in one of the quantum or atomic
universes and ruling wisely and is given the option to join
him there. The idea of Heisenberg's Principle is
enunciated when a rishi visits and illustrates a decision
tree by showing how several parallel universes, with all
possible results of a decision, could occur and uses that
illustration to explain why he took the decision he did in
this universe.
• Every universe is covered by seven layers of
energy. There are innumerable universes
besides this one, and although they are
unlimitedly large, they move about like atoms in
You. Therefore You are called unlimited
(Bhagavata Purana 6.16.37)
• Even though over a period of time I might count
all the atoms of the universe, I could not count
all of My opulences which I manifest within
innumerable universes (Bhagavata Purana
11.16.39)
• TIME DILATION
• Story of king Raivata
TESLA
• Man’s Greatest Achievement, Tesla says, “All
perceptible matter comes from a primary
substance, or tenuity beyond conception,
filling all space, the akasha or luminiferous
ether, which is acted upon by the life giving
Prana or creative force, calling into existence,
in never-ending cycles all things and
phenomena.”
• Carl Sagan wrote
• The Hindu dharma is the only one of the world's
great faiths dedicated to the idea that the
Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an
infinite, number of deaths and rebirths. It is the
only dharma in which time scales correspond to
those of modern scientific cosmology. Its cycles
run from our ordinary day and night to a day and
night of Brahma, longer than the age of the Earth
or the Sun
STRING THEORY
• IT PROPOSES MULTIPLE UNIVERSES RANGING FROM 7
TO 11 TO INFINITE NUMBER DEPENDING ON THE
GROUP OF RESEACHERS.
• ANCIENT PURANAS IDETIFIED 14 DIFFERENT NAMED
UNIVERSES
• Trans-world identity[edit]
• A metaphysical issue which crops up in multiverse
theories that posit infinite identical copies of any given
universe, is the notion that there can be identical
objects in different possible worlds. According to the
counterpart theory of David Lewis, the objects should
be regarded as similar rather than identical.
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Satya-loka
Tapa-loka
Jana-loka
Mahar-loka
Svarga-loka
Bhuvar-loka
Bhu-loka
Atala-loka
Vitala-loka
Sutala-loka
Talatala-loka
Mahatala-loka
Rasatala-loka
Patala-loka
MATHEMATICS
• Indian mathematics emerged in the Indian subcontinent[1] from 1200
BCE[2] until the end of the 18th century. In the classical period of Indian
mathematics (400 CE to 1600 CE), important contributions were made by
scholars like Aryabhata, Brahmagupta, Mahāvīra, Bhaskara II, Madhava of
Sangamagrama and Nilakantha Somayaji. The decimal number system in
worldwide use today was first recorded in Indian mathematics.[3] Indian
mathematicians made early contributions to the study of the concept of
zero as a number,[4] negative numbers,[5] arithmetic, and algebra.[6] In
addition, trigonometry[7] was further advanced in India, and, in particular,
the modern definitions of sine and cosine were developed there.[8] These
mathematical concepts were transmitted to the Middle East, China, and
Europe[6] and led to further developments that now form the foundations
of A later landmark in Indian mathematics was the development of the
series expansions for trigonometric functions (sine, cosine, and arc
tangent) by mathematicians of the Kerala school in the 15th century CE.
Their remarkable work, completed two centuries before the invention of
calculus in Europe, provided what is now considered the first example of a
power series (apart from geometric series).
ARABIC NUMERALS
• THEY ARE NOT ARABIC THEY ARE OF INDIAN
ORIGIN
• THEY WERE TAKEN BACK TO PERSIA IN 12TH
CENTURY AD AND CREDITED WITH THEIR
• DISCOVERY
• VARIOUS REFERENCES AVAILABLE
NOTABLE MENTIONS
• NALANDA UNIVERSITY 6TH CENTURY AD
DHOLAVIRA 2650BC
• One of the unique features of Dholavira is the
sophisticated water conservation system of channels
and reservoirs, the earliest found anywhere in the
world,built completely of stone. The city had massive
reservoirs, three of which are exposed. They were used
for storing fresh water brought by rains or to store
water diverted from two nearby rivulets.This clearly
came in response to the desert climate and conditions
of Kutch, where several years may pass without rainfall.
A seasonal stream which runs in a north-south
direction near the site was dammed at several points
to collect water.
RUSTPROOF IRON PILLAR
• WEIGHS 6,000 kg (13,000 lb), and is thought
to have originally been erected in what is now
Udayagiri by one of the Gupta monarchs in
approximately 402 CE,
• 24 Ft tall
• Precise techniques used are not known
Stone chariot Hampi
• Musical Pillars
• Swing pavilion
Rama Shila
MEDICINE
First CPR around 11000 BC Lakshmana revived
by medicinal plants
• Sushrutha Samhitha 800 BC
• First documented plastic surgery on nose done
by Sushrutha himself and Cataract surgery
• Charaka Samhitha 500 BC
• importance of diet, hygiene, prevention, medical
education, the teamwork of a physician, nurse
and patient necessary for recovery to health
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AYUR VEDA
IN PRACTICE HARAPPA MOHENJADARO
ESTIMATED CHRONOLOGY FROM
PREHISTORIC TO 4000 BC
A TOPIC OF DISCUSSION BY ITSELF
YOGA
• Sage Patanjali wrote books on Ayurveda
• Grammar and Yoga sutras
• Time not known but estimated to be around
8th century BC
• Principles have been around much longer
before
• Wide spread practice in the world for the first
component Hatha Yoga (exercises stretching
etc)
Principles
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Yama
Niyama
Asana
Pranayama
Pratyahara
Dharana
Dhyana
Samadhi
• Ashta Siddhis are:
• 1. Aṇimā:
• Ability to reduce the size of the body, sometimes even to the size of the
atoms. ('Becoming smaller than the smallest' as described in Srimad
Bhagavatam by Lord Krishna)
• Example: Hanuman had reduced the size of his body while he was
searching for Sita in Lanka.
• 2. Mahima:
• Ability to assume a gigantic form ('Becoming larger than the largest' as
described in Srimad Bhagavatam by Lord Krishna)
• Example:
• Hanuman assumed a huge form to burn Lanka, he also assumed big form
to fight Kumbha Karna
• In Vaamana avatar Lord Vishnu increased his form which was so gigantic
that it only took him three steps to cover all three worlds
• 3. Garima
• Ability to become very heavy in weight by will
• Example: Lord Hanuman made his tail very heavy that even Bhima
couldn't life it (Bhima who was climbing the GandhaMadana
mountains to get Saugandhika flowers for Draupadi was stopped by
a monkey whose tail was on the way, Bhima orders the monkey to
take the tail off the road, monkey being old tells him to move it
himself, but Bhima couldn't even lift the monkey's tail)
• 4. Laghima
• Laghima comes from the word laghu, which means small or light.
Laghima is the ability to make the body very light ('Becoming lighter
than the lightest'). Levitation and flying in the air are its subsidiary
powers
• 5. Prāpti
• Word praapti means 'to obtain', 'having obtained', 'to have got'.
Thus praapti is the ability to acquire anything anywhere.
• 6. Prākāmya
• The ability to obtain anything desired, ability to have realized the
dreams
• 7. Iṣiṭva
• Iṣa=lord; isitva=lordship; The power of absolute lordship over
entire creation
• 8. Vaśitva
• The ability to have everything under control, especially the physical
manifestation made up of 5 elements