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- 2. 1. The Rigveda, containing hymns to be recited by the hotr. 2. The Yajurveda , containing formulas to be recited by the adhvaryu or officiating priest; 3. The Samaveda, containing formulas to be sung by the udgatr. 4. The fourth is the Atharvaveda, a collection of spells and incantations, apotropaic charms and speculative hymns.
- 3. "Guru Brahma Guru Vishnu Guru Devo Maheshwara Guru Sakshat Param Brahma Tasmai Shri Gurave Namah" "Dhyana Moolam Guru Murti. Puja Moolam Gurur Padam, Mantra Moolam Gurur Vakyam, Moksha Moolam Guru Kripa“.
- 4. Contribution of Aryabhatta. India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
- 6. The value of pi was first calculated by Aryabhatta
- 7. Quadratic equations were by Bhaskaracharya
- 8. Bhaskaracharya calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the sun hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart. Time taken by earth to orbit the sun: (5th century) 365.258756484 days
- 9. chanakya is traditionally identified as Kautilya or Vishnu Gupta, who authored the ancient Indian political treatise called Arthaśāstra. As such, he is considered as the pioneer of the field of economics and political science in India, and his work is thought of as an important precursor to Classical Economics. Chanakya is often called the "Indian Machiavelli", although his works predate Machiavelli's by about 1,800 years.His works were lost near the end of the Gupta dynasty and not rediscovered until 1915. CHAYANKYA
- 10. Panini is known for his Sanskrit grammar particularly for his formulation of the 3,959 rules of Sanskrit morphology, syntax and semantics in the grammar known as Ashtadhyayi (अष्टाध्यायी Aṣṭādhyāyī, meaning "eight chapters"), the foundational text of the grammatical branch of the Vedanga, the auxiliary scholarly disciplines of Vedic religion.
- 11. Sanskrit is the mother of all the European languages. Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software reported in Forbes magazine, July 1987.
- 12. 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. Usage of anesthesia was well known in ancient India
- 13. Over 125 surgical equipment were used Deep knowledge of anatomy, physiology, etiology, embryology, digestion, metabolism, genetics and immunity is also found in many texts
- 14. Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans.Charaka, the father of medicine consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago. Today Ayurveda is fast regaining its rightful place in our civilization.
- 16. Sir C.V.Raman • He gave enormous contribution in the field of vibration, sound, musical instruments, ultrasonics, diffraction, photo electricity, colloidal particles, X-ray diffraction, magnetron, dielectrics, etc. • He gave ‘THE RAMAN EFFECT’ regarding the scattering of the
- 17. J.C. BOSE Bose subsequently made a number of pioneering discoveries in plant physiology. He used his own invention, the crescograph, to measure plant response to various stimuli, and thereby scientifically proved parallelism between animal and plant tissues. Although Bose filed for a patent for one of his inventions due to peer pressure, his reluctance to any form of patenting was well known. To facilitate his research, he constructed automatic recorders capable of registering extremely slight movements; these instruments produced some striking results, such as Bose’s demonstration of an apparent power of feeling in plants, exemplified by the quivering of injured plants.
- 18. Bhabha gained international prominence after deriving a correct expression for the probability of scattering positrons by electrons, a process now known as Bhabha scattering. His major contribution included his work on Compton scatterin, R-process, and furthemore the advancement of nuclear physics. HOMI J. BHABHA
- 19. Har Gobind Khorana Hargobind Khorana (January 9, 1922 – November 9, 2011) was a biochemist who shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley for research that helped to show how the nucleotides in nucleic acids, which carry the genetic code of the cell, control the cell’s synthesis of proteins. Khorana and Nirenberg were also awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University in the same year.
- 20. Amartya Sen Amartya Sen, is an Indian economist who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory. Sen is best known for his work on the causes of famine, which led to the development of practical solutions for preventing or limiting the effects of real or perceived shortages of food. Amartya Sen's books have been translated into more than thirty languages over a period of forty years. In 2006, Time magazine listed him in 2010 included him in their "100 most influential persons in the world". New Statesman listed him in their 2010 edition of "World's 50 Most Influential People Who Matter
- 21. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, was an astro physicist who,, won the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics for key discoveries that led to the currently accepted theory on the later evolutionary stages of massive stars. The Chandrasekhar limit is named after him. Chandrasekhar was the nephew of Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman. Chandrasekhar worked in distinct periods worked in various areas including stellar structure, theory of white dwarfs, stellar dynamics, theory of radiative transfer, quantum theory of the negative ion of Hydrogen
- 22. Kalam is popularly known as the Missile Man of India for his work on the development of ballistic missile and launch vehicle technology. He played a pivotal organizational, technical and political role in India's Pokhran-II nuclear tests in 1998, the first since theoriginal nuclear test by India in 1974 A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
- 33. India in Space •Kalpana Chawla •Sunita Williams
- 34. KALPANA CHAWLA • Kalpana chawla entered NASA astronaut program in 1994 and was selected for flight in 1996 her first mission began on nov19,1997.she again took flight in July 2002.she was the first Indian born women in space .
- 35. SUNITA WILLIAMS Sunita Williams holds the record for longest space flight by a woman. She was assigned to the International Space Station as a member of Expedition 14 and Expedition 15. In 2012, she served as a flight engineer on Expedition 32 and then commander of Expedition 33. In addition to holding the record for the longest space flight time among female space travelers (195 days, not counting her ongoing 2012 mission).
- 36. • 38% of Doctors in America are Indians. • 12% of Scientists in America are Indians. • 36% of NASA employees are Indians. • 34% of MICROSOFT employees are Indians • 28% of IBM employees are Indians • 17% of INTEL employees are Indians • 13% of XEROX employees are Indians Interesting facts about Indian's
- 37. First democracy to elect a woman Prime Minister. India is the 7th nuclear power in the world India is the 5th largest economy in the world India is the largest democracy in the world India has the 2nd largest population in the world India is the 4th nation in the world to have developed/or developing a nuclear submarine India is the 5th nation in the world to be in the multi billion dollar space commerce business. India is the 4th nation in the world to develop(or nearly to) ICBM's(can travel up to 14,000km) India is the 3rd nation in the world, to be able to develop land based and sea based cruise missiles
- 39. India never invaded any country in her last 10,000 years of history.