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NEW DELHI: One of the country's leading scientists and former ISRO
chairman G Madhavan Nair today propounded the theory that some shlokas
in the Vedas mentioned about presence of water on the moon and
astronomy experts like Aryabhatta knew about gravitational force much
before Isaac Newton.
Speaking at an international conference on Vedas, he however, added that
the information in vedas was in a "condensed format" which made it difficult
for the modern science to accept it.
"Some sholkas in one of the Vedas say that there is water on the moon but
no one believed it. Through our Chandrayaan mission, we could establish
that and we were the first ones to find that out," Nair said, adding that
everything in Vedas could not be understood as they were in chaste
Sanskrit.
He also talked very highly about fifth century astronomer- mathematician
Aryabhatta saying, "We are really proud that Aryabhatta and Bhaskara have
done extensive work on planetary work and exploration of outer planets. It
was one of the challenging fields.
"Even for Chandrayaan, the equation of Aryabhatta was used. Even the
(knowledge of) gravitational field... Newton found it some 1500 years later...
the knowledge existing (in our scriptures)," he said.
Nair, who was ISRO chairman from 2003-09, also claimed geometry was
used to make calculations for building cities during the Harappan civilisation
and the Pythagorean theorem also existed since the vedic period.
The comments by Nair came in the backdrop of many BJP leaders talking
about ancient Indian scriptures having scientific information including on
plastic surgery as well as aero-dynamics.
He said the Indian vedas and ancient scriptures also had information on metallurgy, algebra,
astronomy, maths etc. way before the western world knew about them.
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