People who are leaving to other countries,should know about their country richness...
- Our country's name 'India' was taken up from River Indus where the first settlers established their home. The river was worshipped by Aryans as Sindhu.
- Shataranja or Ashtapada or common chess was invented in India.
- Bhaskaracharya calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the sun hundreds of years ago. Guess his calculation done in 5th century- 365.258756484 days.
- Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India. Quadratic equations were propounded by Sridharacharya in the 11th century. The largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Hindus used numbers as big as 10*53(10 to the power of 53) with specific names as early as 5000 BC during the Vedic period. Even today, the largest used number is Tera: 10*12(10 to the power of 12).
- According to the Gemological Institute of America, up until 1896, India was the only source for diamonds to the world.
- Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health scientists of his time conducted complicated surgeries like cesareans, cataract, artificial limbs, fractures, urinary stones and even plastic surgery and brain surgery.