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Connections between Vedanga Jyotisha and other Vedic Texts
The connection of the Vedānga Jyotisa with other Vedic texts is the subject matter of this study. It is pointed out that the assumptions and the basic parameters used in VJ were already known to the Vedic people in some form or other for use in the rituals. The approximation of 62 synodic and 6...
Sri Saipadananda Radhakrishna Swamiji
from RNI in Books, Religion & Spirituality
This book is about the teachings and life of a modern day Hindu Saint of India who lived in Bangalore. The foreword and preface are made available here. The book can be purchased at Eknath Bhavan, Bangalore.
Dhruva the Ancient Vedic-Hindu Pole Star
Jacobi a German indologist in 1894, argued that the Vedic people knew alpha-Draconis as their Pole Star.This claim was opposed by Whitney, Keith and others who were against arguments, however logical they might have been, that would push the Rigveda to a date more ancient than 1500 BCE. It tur...
Where could have been Dwaraka by RNI and BPR
This paper explores the location of ancient Dwaraka based on available Sanskrit texts from a geological perspective.
Dhruva the Ancient Vedic-Hindu Pole Star
Jacobi a German indologist in 1894, argued that the Vedic people knew alpha-Draconis as their Pole Star.This claim was opposed by Whitney, Keith and others who were against arguments, however logical they might have been, that would push the Rigveda to a date more ancient than 1500 BCE. It tur...
Rainfall Cycles in Ancient India
Inter annual variability patterns of monsoon rainfall as described in ancient Indian texts are presented in this paper. It is interesting to note that the dominant periods were taken to be 3,5,7,18 and 60 years. Modern time series analysis of actual seasonal rainfall data of the past 100 years sh...
Comets and meteoritic showers in the Rigveda and their im...
It is demonstrated that the Rigveda describes transient celestial objects, most probably comets and meteoritic showers, by the words dhumaketu and maruts respectively. This new deciphering of the vedic sky is important to trace back the indigenous origins of astronomy in India, prior to the siddh...
Deciphering the Vedic Sky
The Rigveda describes comets metaphorically as celestial fires. The word dhumaketu which means comet in Indian languages is already used in RV. This is closely linked to Maruts and Vibhavasu. Maruts beyond reasonable doubt represent meteoritic showers and not ordinary rainfall and storms.
Indian Rainfall Forecast for 2009
The amount of All India level rainfall that can be expected from the monsoon season June-September 2009 is forecast by empirical time series analysis.
Regional Rainfall Forecast
Is it possible to forecast the amount of monsoon rainfall in India? This question is addressed in this article using long time series data of subdivisions. Central to the approach is the decomposition of the data into its intrinsic modes.
History of Medieval Indian Earthquakes
This paper searches medieval Sanskrit and other language literary evidences for earthquakes in India. The date of the Wular earthquake reported in the paper is not correct. It would be perhaps more like 100 BC. One epigraph from near Bangalore is also included in the article.
Parashara's Astronomy-IJHS-2008
For those interested in "HISTORY OF SCIENCE IN INDIA": This is the official published version (heavily abridged) of the archaic astronomy text of Parashara. Note that there is a typo on the first page. The paper was accepted in December 2007 and published in 2008! Read also the discussion of the ...
Rigveda knows the 18-year eclipse period number!
Dr.Abhyankar President of the Ind. Astronomical Society wrote this note in IJHS supporting my work elucidating the meaning of the Rigvedic number 3339.
Vedic Archaeogeography
This is an extension of the previous work of RNi and BPR on the Vedic IriNa. In the present work published in the Puraatatva, the Rigvedic animal Gaura is shown to be same as GoDh Khur, the whitish wild-ass, living in the Rann-of-kutch.
Seismic hazard estimation in Peninsular India
from RNI in Research, Math & Engineering
This paper by Raghukanth and RN Iyengar for the first time proposes a method for engineering estimation of seismic hazard in peninsular India, which is roughly south of 24 degrees N. / Engineers can directly use the this as a reference guide for further structural analysis and design.
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