Cultura Vedică

searcher-star, on 02 octombrie 2014 - 15:45, said:

Dacă ai nevoi de traducere să-mi scrii.

Many hundreds of years before the coming of the English,
the nations of India had been a collection of wealthy and highly civilised people,
possessed of great language with an elaborate code of laws and social regulations,
with exquisite artistic taste in architecture and decoration,
producing conceptions which have greatly influenced the development of the most progressive races of the West."

(Henry Mayer Hyndman, 20th Century British politician)

According to the celebrated American author of The Story of Civilization, Will Durant,
"It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier, India has sent to the West such gifts as grammar and logic,
philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.

India was the mother of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages.
She was the mother of our philosophy, mother through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics, mother through Buddha,
of the ideals embodied in Christianity, mother through village communities of self-government and democracy.
Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all."

Despite India's extraordinary civilisational achievements being well documented by respected Western scholars,
accurate knowledge of the country's history has seldom entered the public domain, most especially in Britain.

1. The Indian/Hindu Numeral System: Few people are aware that the numbers that we all use today are an Indian invention.
Often referred to as Arabic numerals, after the Arab traders who brought Indian mathematical concepts to the West,
this path-breaking Indian invention replaced the cumbersome Roman numeral system in use in the West until then, and stands as one of the greatest human inventions of all time.

"We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made." Albert Einstein.

The ingenious Indian system succeeded where the efforts of other great civilisations failed,
and today underpins the foundation of modern mathematics and its infinite uses in our day-to-day lives.
Beyond the numeral system itself, a number of other critical mathematical principles also have their routes in India,
whose scientific texts and discoveries were regularly studied by foreign scholars, from Greek philosophers to Arab mathematicians,
and from British inventors to Nazi and Cold War era rocket and nuclear scientists.

"Nearly all the philosophical and mathematical doctrines attributed to Pythagoras are derived from India." Ludwig von Shroeder

tudorel666, on 05 octombrie 2014 - 10:32, said:

Ai informații despre această cultură pe care o presupui?

barbu78, on 28 aprilie 2015 - 20:59, said:

Da.