4. The World's first university was established in Takshashila in 700 BC
More than 10500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects.
The University of Nalanda built in 400 BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient Bharat🇮🇳 in the field of education.
5. The art of Navigation was born in the river Sindhu 6,000 years ago.
The very word Navigation is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH.
The word navy is also derived from Sanskrit 'Nou'.
6. Bharat🇮🇳 pioneered many important scientific,medical, architectural & mathematical achievements that are still used today.
7. Bharat🇮🇳 invented the Number System.
8. Budhayana, was the first to calculate the value of π.
He then went on to explain the concept of what today is known as the Pythagorean Theorem.
He discovered this 500 years before Pythagoras was even born any other European mathematicians.
9. Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from Bharat🇮🇳.
Sridharacharya developed quadratic equations in the 11th CE.
10. The largest numbers the Greeks and & Romans used were 106,
whereas Bharatiya🇮🇳 were using numbers as big as 10 to the power of 53, as early as 5000 BCE.
Even today, the largest used number is Tera (10 to the power of 12).
11. Ayurveda🇮🇳 is the earliest school of medicine known to humans.
Charaka, the father of medicine consolidated Ayurveda 2,500 years ago.
12. Sushruta🇮🇳 is the father of surgery.
2,600 years ago he and health scientists of his time conducted complicated surgeries like cesareans, cataract, artificial limbs, fractures, urinary stones, plastic surgery and brain surgery.
13. Usage of anesthesia was well known in ancient Bharat🇮🇳.
Over 125 surgical tools were used. Deep knowledge of anatomy, physiology, etiology, embryology, digestion, metabolism, genetics and immunity is also found in many texts.
14. Bharat🇮🇳 invented the Number System. Aryabhatta invented the number zero.
15. Bhaskaracharya calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the sun hundreds of years before Anyone.
Time taken by earth to orbit the sun: (5th century) 365.258756484 days.
16. The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra🇮🇳
17. According to Saka King Rudradaman I of 150 BCE, a beautiful lake called Sudarshana was constructed on the hills of Raivataka during Chandragupta Maurya's time.
18. Chess (Shataranja or AshtaPada) was invented in Bharat🇮🇳.
19. The place value system and the decimal system were developed in Bharat🇮🇳 in 100 BC.
20. Although modern images of Bharat🇮🇳 often show poverty and lack of development,
Bharat🇮🇳 was the richest country on earth until the time of British invasion in the early 17th Century.
Christopher Columbus discovered America trying to find an alternative way to get to Bharat🇮🇳
When many cultures were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5,000 years ago!!
Bharatiyas🇮🇳 established the Harappan culture in the Sindhu Valley (Indus Valley Civilization)
'Where the Western Science Ends, Vedantic & Indian Philosophy BEGINS.'
-Albert Einstein