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Ancient Indian Physics

Indian tradition views physics based on Vaisisika darsana, which describes scientific methodology. Ancient Indian texts elaborate concepts like mechanisms. India produced great mathematicians, physicists, astronomers, chemists, and others who were not always given proper credit. Indian tradition sought to unify space, time, matter and consciousness, arguing for relativity of space and time, cyclic universes, and a non-anthropocentric view. Two philosophical systems underlying Indian physics are Samkhya and Vaisisika.

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Ancient Indian Physics

Indian tradition views physics based on Vaisisika darsana, which describes scientific methodology. Ancient Indian texts elaborate concepts like mechanisms. India produced great mathematicians, physicists, astronomers, chemists, and others who were not always given proper credit. Indian tradition sought to unify space, time, matter and consciousness, arguing for relativity of space and time, cyclic universes, and a non-anthropocentric view. Two philosophical systems underlying Indian physics are Samkhya and Vaisisika.

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Hindu Views Physics Based Mainly On Vaisisika Darsana Which Describes The

Methodology Of Science And Elaborates The Concepts Of Mechanisms


Study of Sr̥ṣṭyādhikāra of Aṃśubodhinīśāstra, ancient text on Physics by Rishi
Bhārdavāja.

India had produced some of the world-class mathematician (Aryabhata), physicist


(Rishi Bhaskaracharya), astronomer (Varahamihira), chemist (Nagarjuna), Cosmology
related (Rishi Kapil), aviator (Bharadwaja), surgery-related (Sushruta), atomic
theory related (Rishi Kanada) and many others. Many of these geniuses were not
given credit for their works.

Indian astronomer/physicists,
starting with a position that sought to unify space, time, matter, and
consciousness, argued for relativity of space and time, cyclic and recursively
dened universes, and a non-anthropocentric view. The two most astonishing
numerical claims from the ancient Indians are: a cyclic system of creation of the
universe with a period of 8.64 billion years, although there exist longer cycles as
well; and, speed of light to be 4,404 yojanas per nimes.a, which is
almost exactly 186,000 miles per second (Kak, 1998)! within the Indian tradition it
is believed that reality, as a kind of a universal state function, transcends the
separate categories of space, time, matter, and
observation. In this function, called Brahman in the literature, inhere all
categories including knowledge. The conditioned mind can, by \tuning" into Brahman,
obtain knowledge, although it can only be expressed in terms
of the associations already experienced by the mind.

Within the Indian tradition, scientic knowledge describes as much aspects of outer
reality as the topography of the mindscape. Furthermore, there are connections
between the outer and the inner: we can comprehend reality only because we are
already equipped to do so!

Two philosophical systems at the basis of Indian physics|and metaphysics| are S#am.
khya and Vai#ses.ika. S#am. khya, which is an ancient system that goes back to the
3rd millennium BC, posits 25 basic categories together with 3
constituent qualities, which evolve in di erent ways to create the universe at the
microcosmic as well as the macrocosmic levels. It also presupposes a potential"
(tanm#atra) to be more basic than the material entity. Vai#ses.ika
is a later system which is an atomic theory with the non-atomic ground of ether,
space, and time upon which rest four different classes of indestructible atoms
which combine in a variety of ways to constitute all matter; it also considers mind
to be atomic (Kak, 1999). These systems presuppose genesis and evolution both at
the cosmic and psychological levels. They also accept cyclic and multiple
universes, and centrality of observers.

Creation Theory - Vedic Physics: A brief study of Creation Theory


Manusmriti: Srushti, Pralay, Time measurement: https://www.semanticscholar.org/
Ethnobiological Studies from Manusmruti: XII Facts on Dissolution (Pralaya) and
Geological Time Scale
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Ethnobiological-Studies-from-Manusmruti%3A-
XII-Facts-Mohapatra-Dash/b861a043c2a4d7b00540afc8e3f5f521e76314c1

The Cosmic Dance


http://www.fritjofcapra.net/shivas-cosmic-dance-at-cern/
Paper: The Dance of Shiva: The Hindu View of Matter in the Light of Modern Physics

http://www.hindupedia.com/en/Main_Page
Sciences
Sanatan Dharm a Religion or Science
Philosophy of Indian Science and Texts

Cosmic Order: Rita and Varuna


In the Vedas, the order of the Universe is called Rita.. Rita reduces chaos to
cosmos, and gives order and integration to matter. It also gives symmetry and
harmony in the environment. Hence the conception of Rita has an aesthetic content
too; it implies splendour and beauty. It is for this reason that the Vedic gods,
upholding Rita, are all lawful, and beautiful and good. Their beauty is a
significance attribute. Rita is defined variously by scholars in different Vedic
contexts, but in general sense it has been elaborated as great cosmic order. which
is the cause of all motion and existence, and keeps world in order. No one can
ignore it, even gods are abided by the Rita. and they are born of Rita. It is
controlling and sustaining power. It sustains sun in the sky. Rita as universal law
governs everything in the cosmos. The whole of the manifested universe is working
under Rita. S.R.N. Murthy assumes it as a law of gravitation in simple form.

http://vedic-research.blogspot.com/2011/11/introduction-of-dr-m-l-gupta.html
M.L.Gupta, The Cosmic Yajna, Samhita Books Jaipur, 1999

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