Documents tagged with ancient india

Harappan Secrets

http://www.oheraldo.in/newscategory/M... As a result of its pioneering commercial-colonial links with India since the close of the 15th century, the Portuguese have made some rare contributi...
  • Teotonio R. de Souza published this 12 / 13 / 2010
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Maurya and Gupta Empires

Basic notes on the Maurya and Gupta Empires in India, 324 BCE to 530 CE.
  • ayMirala published this 11 / 15 / 2010
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Geotechnical Engineering in Ancient India

Science and Technology in ancient India
  • ishanene published this 07 / 11 / 2010
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Magadha After Sri Krishna

Indian history from Sri Krishna’s time to the Muslim Rule, has been preserved in various Sanskrit texts, Tamil texts, Inscriptions etc. After the Ascent of Sri Krishna, the rshis moved to Naimisara...
  • indrajaveda published this 02 / 02 / 2010
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Spectroscopy in Ancient India

This technical document explains the spectrometer used by Bharadwaja, as documented in the AmsuBodhini.
  • indrajaveda published this 01 / 03 / 2010
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Royal Chronology and History of INDIA

It all about the History of ancient india.
  • Mukesh K. Agrawal published this 11 / 03 / 2009
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A Loud Bharata Horn by the Harappan Horned Archer

This work unfolds the bharata word theme embodied in the 'horned archer' found on a copper tablet from Mohenjo-daro.The study establishes its identity as viirabhadra a form of Siva or the sacrif...
  • Vijaya Bhaarati published this 10 / 03 / 2009
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Dhruva the Ancient Vedic-Hindu Pole Star

This is the published version of the paper in IJHS-2011. Note U'iu'umara=S'is'umara. Jacobi a German indologist in 1894, argued that the Vedic people knew alpha-Draconis as their Pole Star.This cla...
  • RNI published this 09 / 28 / 2009
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Wiccan Spells | The Yoga of the West

Wiccan spells or Wiccan Magic is defined as “the Science or Art of causing change to occur in compliance with one’s will”. The term Wiccan, refers to those who practise the Wicca Religion. T...
  • Wicca-Awareness published this 09 / 07 / 2009
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Aryan Invasion : truth

This Power point presentation prepared four years ago was meant for communicating to students the nature of Aryan invasion theory and to test if its premises stand on factual ground.
  • aravindan_neelakandan published this 08 / 15 / 2009
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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...
  • RNI published this 08 / 07 / 2009
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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. Marut...
  • RNI published this 07 / 13 / 2009
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Environmental Protection and Water Reverence in Vedic Culture - by K.N. Sharma, Secretary, ICID

Paper describes how utmost reverence for water, environment and other forces and resources of Nature was the order of the day in the vedic times and ancient Indian culture. This helped to preserve ...
  • aangiras published this 06 / 26 / 2009
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Selections from Resources for Historical Research on Ancient India

  • Kosla Vepa published this 04 / 09 / 2009
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Connections between Vedanga Jyotisha and other Vedic Texts

The connection of the Vedānga Jyotisa 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 ...
  • RNI published this 03 / 28 / 2009
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Historicity of Krishna & MBh

A set of 70 slides prepared by me for a talk at IISc, Bangalore. Dating of MB can not be independent of Krishna as a historical person. Much info has come down to us about Krishna and his times fro...
  • RNI published this 11 / 09 / 2008
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Ancient Hindu Astronomy

This consists of a set of 60 slides I developed for a lecture at Hyderabad in December 2007. The effort here is to trace the status of astronomy before the Siddhantic period. This is what may be ca...
  • RNI published this 11 / 06 / 2008
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Comets of Parashara starting with the Flood

"Comets of Ancient India starting with the Floods, as per Parāśara " This is the text of the talk presented by RNI at the National Center for History of Science (NCHS) Oriental Research Institute, ...
  • RNI published this 10 / 24 / 2008
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Earthquakes in Ancient India as per adbhuta sagara & Brihat Samhita

This article describes the approach and knowledge about earthquakes in ancient India. Quite interestingly some 1500 years ago earthquake hazard was described in terms of four types. Even now the of...
  • RNI published this 10 / 19 / 2008
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Comet Observation in Ancient India: RN Iyengar-JGSI

Comets can not be easily missed in the night sky. In ancient India Comets were named and also an year number was given to them. This helps us in marking a rough chronolgy for the First Flood known ...
  • RNI published this 10 / 17 / 2008
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