April 18, is the World
Heritage Day. India is an ancient nation, endowed with most rich heritage,
vivid national ethos and morals of exemplary standards. The Greek ambassador
Megasthanes, who adorned the court of Chandragupta Maurya from 302-298 BC has
explicitly testified to it in his historic compendium on India, entitled
the 'INDIKA' by stating that the masses
in Bharat, then in 300 BC had so high
self righteous virtues in their conduct and behaviour that even during
war time, when the armed forces of enemy kings were engaged in fighting, the
village folks and farmer-families continued to work fearlessly in their farms,
as the national ethos of "Dharma" were so firmly ingrained into
their mind and conscience that they
never thought of hurting civilians, of even the enemy kingdom.
All our vast scriptural treatises are so replete with immense
and ultimate scientific intellect as well as diverse doctrinal wisdom of social
and behavioral sciences that they encompass all dimensions of knowledge and
human conduct. The scriptural legends compiled in vary intricate but, highly
meaningful linguistic verses, speak of an eternal and ever-perpetuating culture
of highest ethical standards, embedded with scientific tempor and an advanced
civilizational traditions. The Vedic texts, among this vast treasure of
scriptures, are unanimously accepted worldwide, as the oldest available texts on
our planet wherein the Rigved has been declared as past of ancient world
heritage. The vedic and Pauranik literature of Bharat explicitly delve in deep,
about the infinite expanse of our cosmos with ceaseless and unhindered spate of
creation and extinction of galaxies. Vast range of cosmic and astronomical
attributes along with several deeper intricacies of human physiology and unique
scientific facts of, the physical and life sciences, as well as historical
antiquities are dealt very meticulously. The Naasdiya sookta of vedas, the
creationism of Puranas and the works of hundreds of astronomess and
mathematician like Aryabhatt, Varahmihir, Bhaskaracharya, Brahmagupt etc. talk
of cosmic perpetuity, intricate celestial phenomena, scientific laws of motion
& gravitition etc and so on very aptly. The second verse of 26th chapter of
Yajurved so explicitly talks of the biological fact of electrical impulses of our heart's ventricles,
that is corroborated today, as on the basis of the same principle, we aid them
(heart's impulses) with a pacemaker based upon a silver ion battery as an - an
electrical heart-implant.
The verse says ''Angi gun hridaye ashani gun hridayagren ¼vfXu
ân;s.k 'kfu
ân;kxzs.k½ Here 'ashani' ¼v'kfu½] as per sansknt Nighantu (i.e. sanskrit thesoras) is a synonym for
electrical impulses. Scientific epidemiology of most of the words in the
Sanskrit Niruktas is so meaningful that they reveal immense treasure of
scientific and other information. A single example of the term 'Yashad'
standing for Zinc is enough. It reveals
about the metallurgical chemistry; that zinc after ignition can be collected on
a Copper plate alone, which acts as a reducing agent. The epidemiology says
'Tamrah Yash Pradaayate iti Yashadah' ¼rkez% ;'k iznk;rs bfr ;'kn%½- Likewise the world's oldest and more
than two millenia old as well as hitherto the
most systematic Sanskrit-grammar of Panini, today also has no parallel.
In league with the Panini's Ashtadhyayi the world's equally old and so oldest
among the available texts is the two millennia old Kautilya Arthshastra which
talks of an advance economy of ancient era.
The Valmiki Ramayan
mentions of 4 tusked elephants at more than one place, which had lived on the
earth since 25 million years and turned extinct just one million years
ago. This epoch is coinciding with the
Treta Yug which is narrated to have commenced since 21, 25,119 years and ended
8,69,119 years ago according Puranas. No, other scripture, related to later era
mentions about 4 tusked mammoths. Except the Valmiki Ramayan. This testifies
for Ramayan period to have lapsed in Treta Yug, as corroborated by the antiquities
archeological findings of one million year old 4 tusked mammoths.
In the area of Astronomy as well, the western astronomers
were not aware of the precession of equinoxes called Ayan Chalan ¼v;u
pyu½] which (live
precession) completes its one full circle in 26,000 years and India has
acknowledged it, calculated it accurately and sustained in calculating the
monthly sankrantis or the 12 solar transits along with the nomenclature of
Hindu months and so on. Now the western astronomers too agree to this phenomenon
of precession of equinoxes, occurring due to swing in the spin of the earth. In
the pre-Mahabharat era the names of Hindu months were Madhu, Madhav, Shuchi
etc., were changed, keeping in view the precession of equinoxes when the full
moon of these Madhu, Madhav and Shuchi etc 12 months begun to fall in the
constellations of Chitra, Vishakha, Jyeshtha etc. So, they are now called
Chaitra, Vaishakh, Jyeshth, Ashaadh and so on, based on the moon's
constellation on Prunima. No calender of the world is so calibrated with
advance astronomical phenomena on an ongoing manner. Ignoring all our
scriptural sources, the modern historians had even pegged the Ramayan era to
1500 BC and Mahabharat era and period of lord Krishna within 700 to 1000 BC,
and have also been dubbing the Indian scriptural sources as myth. The marine-
archeological excavations, undertaken since 1980s by the National Institute of
Oceanography, near the Dwarika-coast have already unearthed rich archeological
relics of ancient Dwarika, including a 30 feet wide fortification wall of the
then Dwarika town was raised 5 millenniums ago, when the Dwarika town was
founded, to protect the town from sea waves. Building blocks of that era with,
pottery and other objects of iron and copper, all depicting very advanced
architectural and metallurgical skills of Indians dating back to 5 millennia.
Indeed the Radio-Carbon and Thermoluminescence dating of the aforesaid objects found under water, near Dwarika coast
corroborate for being more than 5000 years old, in conformity with the ancient
Indian pauranic writings which describe the lord Krishna's era i.e., Krishna
Janma Samvat or year of birth falling as
5243 in 2017 AD.
Besides, the archaeological relics or the remains of ancient
Dwarika town, there is immense irrefutable evidence of much older civilizations
like an ancient port near Dwarika with more than a thousand anchors lying in
the sea bed are also enough to amaze every one. Moreover, the remains of
another 12000 year old sea port at the nearby cambay (Khambhat) region of
Gujarat, with more than 2500 anchors scattered on the sea-bed help to further
corroborate with even our rigvedic descriptions of conduct of sea trade much
before the Mahabharata era. Rigved the oldest book of the world and included in
the UNESCO's list of world heritage mentions of sea trade through 'Shatritra'
i.e. an ocean-going ship with 100 oars. Moreover, if India had such vast sea
ports more than 12 millennia back i.e. dating back to 10 millennia B.C., it is
a conclusive evidence of our inheriting very rich heritage comprising an
advanced civilization, depicting well developed industrial economy, supported
by commeasurating trade and commerce.
The geographical spread of our ancient heritage was also upto
Indonesia in the far east, till 15th century just before the fall of 'Majaphit
empire' after the Jehadi aggressions and up to Europe in the west. According to
Adams and Phythian, the European archeologists, there is not a single European
museum which is devoid of relics of 'Mitra' a vedic synonym for the 'Sun God'
as per their book 'Mitraism in Europe'.
Several sections of scholars ignorant of the ancient history
of Bharat, hold the belief that Bharat was for the first time integrated as a
unified nation by the British, forgetting that Bharat had its frontiers,
encompassing entire Srilanka and South-East Asia during the revgn of Chola King
Rajendra, coroneted in 1014 A.D. Earlier to him, the Buddhist King Kanishka
(127-150 AD) and the Kushan empire had 4 capitals at Patliuetra (Patna),
Mathura, Taxila and Purushpur (Peshawar now in Pakistan) to a rule in area
spread to Central Asia, including Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan,
Turkmenistan as well as Kashgar, Khotan and Yarkand (Part of Xinjang Province
of China), Tibet (Trivish tap), Nepal Afghansrtan. He had also built a 560 feet
high Buddhist Stupa, and rdics of it were seen by even all Biruni (973-1048
A.D.), who has described it in his book. Even the Mayyan Temples of Sun and
several Latin American practices, of their pre-evangelization era, reflect
several Hindu traditions of Bharat.
Global governance was not an unheard concept to ancient
rishis, as it was in vogue in Vedic age. One single verse of ved testify for a
universal constitution regulating the global governance speaking of one nation
from the land-mass upto the oceans "Prithivyaye Samudra Paryant ek
radtiti" (i`fFkO;kFkZ leqnz i;ZUrk;k ,d jkM~frfr). In this hymn, utmost welfare is
solicited for all empires under the reign of a common constitution for the
world, whether ruled by monarchy (lkezkT;) welfare state (HkksT;a) where the empire is called bhojya
and the ruler is called 'Bhoj'. Or a feudal empire (oSjkT;) where the ruler is called Virat and
empire is called Vairajya and so on. Bhojya empire was there in Bhojpur-Nepal,
Bhojpur-Bihar, Bhojpur UP and Ujjain etc. and urlers were called King Bhoj. The
Taittiriyopnishad has dealt with various types of governance under a common
rule of universal governance. All these need to be popularised and be brought
in public domain.
