If all the world’s cultural heritage was contained in a time capsule, what would you include to demonstrate the legacy of your country?

1. If all the world’s cultural heritage was contained in a time capsule, what
would you include to demonstrate the legacy of your country?

2. LEGACY OF INDIAN
CULTURE

5. ARYABHATA
•The eminent ancient Indian
Mathematician discovered ZERO.
•His definitions of Sine, Cosine,
Versine, and inverse sine
influenced the birth of
Trigonometry.

6. VEDAS
The Vedas are the breath of
God.” They can be rightly
called the treasure-trove of
Hindu religion, tradition and
culture. They contain codes of
righteous conduct and are
supposed to have been taught
by God Himself thousands of
years ago. They help build
moral integrity and norms
that are applicable even
today.

7. • Unity in diversity at the world
level is the favourite theory of
the Vedas and they have kept in
mind, man’s needs and
aspirations, his quest for peace
and the link that ought to be
established between God and an
individual soul.
• Digging into the mine of Vedic
knowledge has resulted in
unearthing several secrets which
the scientific knowledge has
discovered at a later stage.

8. THE EPICS
It is the story of a war
between two rival sections of
a dynasty. It is the story of
evolution of all life, a code of
universal ethics, and it is also
a history of the human race
in its most general sense.

9. •The Mahabharata is the longest
known epic poem known ever.
• The importance of the
Mahabharata has been compared
to world civilization to that of
the Bible, the works of
Shakespeare, the works
of Homer, Greek drama, or
the Quran.
•It exposes the secrets of
leadership and the path to
success. Whether it is man
management, human behavior,
game theory, management by
objectives, all aspects of modern
management can be discovered in
various characters and episodes of
the great epic.

10. It is one of the most important
literary work of Ancient India.
The Ramayana consists of 24,000
verses in seven books and 500
cantos, and tells the story of Rama,
an avatar of the Hindu supreme-god
Vishnu, whose wife Sita is
abducted by Ravana, the king
of Lanka. It then narrates the story
of how Lord Rama managed to win
back his wife from Ravana with the
help of his brother Laxmana and his
follower Hanuman.

11. •The story ushered in the tradition of
the next thousand years of massive-scale
works in the rich diction of regal
courts and Hindu temples. It has also
inspired much secondary literature in
various languages.
•The Ramayana became popular in
southeast Asia during the 8th century
and was represented in literature,
temple architecture, dance and theatre.
•The Ramayana has also been depicted
in many paintings, most notably by the
Malaysian artist Syed Thajudeen in
1972.

13. THE TAJ MAHAL
•One of the 7 wonders of the world,
Taj Mahal was built
by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in
memory of his third wife, Mumtaz
Mahal. The Taj Mahal is widely
recognized as "the jewel of Muslim
art in India and one of the
universally admired masterpieces
of the world's heritage
•Taj Mahal became a
UNESCO World Heritage Site in
1983.

14. THE KHAJURAHO GROUP OF MONUMENTS

15. The Khajuraho Group of
Monuments are a group of
Hindu and Jain temples in
Madhya Pradesh, India.
About 620 kilometers
southeast of New Delhi, they
are one of the UNESCO
World Heritage Sites in
India. The temples are
famous for their Nagara-style
architectural
symbolism and their erotic
sculptures

16. THE AJANTA CAVES
The Ajanta Caves in Aurangabad
district of Maharashtra, India are about
30 rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments
include paintings and sculptures
described by the
government Archaeological Survey of
India as "the finest surviving examples
of Indian art, particularly painting.
Since 1983, the Ajanta Caves have been a UNESCO World
Heritage Site.

17. THE ELLORA CAVES
Ellora represents the epitome of Indian rock-cut architecture.
The 34 "caves" are actually structures excavated out of the vertical face of the
Charanandri hills.
The Ellora Caves have been a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

18. Town and city planning through The Mohenjo-Daro &
Harappa civilization of ancient India is the driving force
of Architecture in the modern era.

20. Originated in India, Kabaddi is
one of the most followed sport
in Asia in the modern era.
Ludo is derived from
the Indian game Pachisi. The game
and its variants are popular in many
countries and under various names.

21. One of the world's most popular
games, played by millions of
people worldwide, Chess
originated in India.

23. One of the oldest religions
of the world, Buddhism has
its roots in ancient India
during the 2nd half of the 1st
millennium BCE.
By the late Middle Ages,
Buddhism had become
virtually extinct in India,
and although it continued
to exist in surrounding
countries, its influence was
no longer expanding. It is
now again gaining strength
worldwide.

25. Regarded as the oldest religion of the world, Hinduism originated in Ancient India. Today its is the 3rd
largest religion of the world surpassed only by Christianity and Islam. Hindu practices such as Yoga is
today, the most effective and most followed form of exercise. It is estimated that round 30 million
Americans and 5 million Europeans practice Yoga. This number is around 300,000 in Australia and New-
Zealand.

26. Movement of Planets and its effect is the
Indian thought and is worth putting into
the time capsule. Astrology is the by-product
of star movements, originated in
India.
In the filed of politics, THE NON-ALIGNMENT
MOVEMENT was initiated by India during the 2nd
world war which is unique and a rich legacy to the
world’s politics.
The Indian Classical dance has given
birth to various other dance forms of
the world.

28. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was the preeminent leader of Indian nationalism in British-ruled
India. Gandhi influenced many important leaders and political movements. Leaders such as MARTIN
LUTHER KING, JAMES LAWSON and JAMES BEVEL drew from the writings of Gandhi in the
development of their own theories about NON-VIOLENCE- the greatest Legacy of the great Indian
leader.
U.S. President Barack Obama in a 2010 address to the Parliament of India said that:
I am mindful that I might not be standing before you today, as President of the
United States, had it not been for Gandhi and the message he shared with America
and the world.

29. BE IT:
Literature
Architecture
Religion
Sports
People
Contribution of INDIA to the world’s cultural heritage is indeed worth applauding.