Ancient Hindu High-Tech That Contributed To Modern Science
AncientPages.com - Many of our modern inventions are not so modern at all. Several of our technological and scientific discoveries were used a long time ago in ancient India.
Just recently, Narendra Modi, Indian prime minister stated openly that some of the world's greatest scientific achievements originate from his country.
To many this might seem like a very controversial statement, but if we take a look at ancient texts, myths and legends, this claim does not seem far-fetched at all.
For example, according to Narendra Modi ancient India was adept at genetics and plastic surgery. He says that the miraculous birth of the warrior king Karna in the Mahabharata, the Hindu epic, outside his mother's womb as evidence that "genetic science was present at that time". As for Ganesh, he said there must have been a surgeon who grafted the elephant head onto a human body "and began the practice of plastic surgery".
This subject was covered in our article, Plastic Surgery And Genetic Science - Found In Ancient Vedas - Were Practized Thousands Of Years Ago.
Skilled ancient doctors conducted complicated surgeries like fractures, cesareans, removing of urinary stones, cataract surgery, artificial limbs, brain surgery and even plastic surgery.
Readers of MessageToEagle.com are familiar with the so-called Vimanas that were flying machines soaring through ancient skies of India.
By studying the ancient Sanskrit texts with great attention to detail, we can rediscover prehistoric aviation activities of the Indian gods.
Indian legends refer to horseless chariots and to aeroplane-like vehicles.
India was the land of flying machines described in many ancient texts like Yajurveda, Mahabharata, Samarangana Sutradhara, Rigweda, Ramayana and even older ones.
In the Mahabharata, the hero Arjuna, for example, sees "an incredible ship of the sky" which lands softly on the ground. "Wonderful lights flashed on the Vimana's smooth body.
Arjuna rose and approached the craft, a door opened at its side and a flight of steps flowed out from it."
So our modern cars and airplanes are by no means a new invention. These machines existed thousands of years ago in ancient India. We also know from Vedic scripts that the gods' weapon arsenal included nuclear, biological, chemical and meteorological weapons. In ancient texts it is mentioned how ancient Indian gods were in possession of a weapon called the "Pasupata". It was forbidden to launch it against humans and planet Earth.
The weapon remains a big mystery. The only thing we know is that it was used only once, when Arjuna wanted to demonstrate the weapon's potential to his brother. After launching the Pasupata, the whole Earth began trembling, the mountains were divided, and an extremely strong wind began to blow, followed by a great fire and the darkened sun. The other gods then yelled: "Arjuna, Arjuna do not use this weapon." Another weapon that was forbidden to use on the Earth was a special arrow called the "Pradyumna", which if launched had similar destructive effects on the planet.
Traces of nuclear battles can be found worldwide. It would seem that our modern society was certainly not the first to invent nuclear bombs.
The atomic theory was invented 2,600 Years ago by Acharya Kanad and not John Dalton who has been credited as the inventor of the atomic theory.
Dinanath Batra, a retired school teacher and the founder of the Shiksha Bachao Andolan Samiti writes in his controversial book that even television comes from ancient India. In his opinion, Indian sages use their yogic powers to attain visions, and one royal adviser receives a live telecast of the battle of Mahabharata. "There is no doubt that the invention of television goes back to this," he says.
India is also credited with the system that became known as the "Arabic" numerals 0-9. Albert Einstein is quoted as saying: "We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made."
Ancient Indian texts, legends and myths provide us with plenty of evidence showing that great civilizations were familiar with advanced technology thousands of years ago and as we have stated in so many of our previous articles, many of our modern inventions are nothing but re-inventions based on ancient knowledge.
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