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This book seeks to provide new insight into three disciplines of science, namely, astronomy, mathematics and medicine. Upholding the claim of Uddalaka Aruni, an Upanishadic seer, as the first scientist in the world, it establishes the view that Vedanga Jyotish was based on the data preserved by the pre-Aryans.
Further it presents a new approach to the understanding of the scientific potential of the Sulbasutras, works of proto-geometry and mensuration recorded in ...
The present book is the second volume of the History of Science and Technology in Ancient India, the first volume of which was published in 1986. The main theme covered in the previous volume is the beginnings of science during the period of the first urbanization (ancient Indus Valley Civilization), while the present volume discusses the formation of the theoretical fundamentals of natural science. During the first urbanization science came into being only in ...
The ancient Indian materialistic thought system known as Carvaka or Lokayata formed the most redoubtable intellectual and doctrinal sect outside the Vedic fold. Despite intense persecution from orthodoxy, it stood its ground unfailingly and left a powerful impress on the corpus of Indian literature from the Vedas to the Upanisads and later. The irreproachable logic of its basic stance still appeals to perceptive minds. In this anthology almost all the ...