In ancient times, various saints after doing years of hard meditation, their work and with their patience found the secrets of nature, hidden in the Vedas thousands years before. These inventions later came to be known as modern science.
Indian Scriptures have answers that modern science needs. During the growth of the ancient civilizations, ancient technology was the result of incredible advances in engineering in ancient times.
These advances in the history of technology stimulated societies to adopt new ways of living and governance. However, many ancient inventions were forgotten, lost to the pages of history, only to be re-invented millennia later.
Acharya Kanad; The Indian Sage who developed Atomic Theory 2,600 years ago; Acharya Kanad was born in 600 BC in Prabhas Kshetra (near Dwaraka) in Gujarat, India. His real name was Kashyap.
It was Kanada who originated the idea that anu (atom) was an indestructible particle of matter. But John Dalton (1766 – 1844), an English chemist and physicist, is the man credited today with the development of atomic theory.
However, a theory of atoms was actually formulated 2,500 years before Dalton by Acharya Kanad. An interesting story states that this theory occurred to him while he was walking with food in his hand.
As he nibbled at the food in his hand, throwing away the small particles, it occurred to him that he could not divide the food into further parts and thus the idea of a matter which cannot be divided further came into existence.
He called that indivisible matter anu, i.e. molecule, which was misinterpreted as atom. He also stated that anu can have two states – Absolute rest and a State of motion.
Newton’s Law; (1200 Years before Newton) “Objects fall on the earth due to a force of attraction by the earth. Therefore, the earth, planets, constellations, moon and sun are held in orbit due to this attraction.” said by an Indian Rishi – in Surya Siddhanta, dated 400-500 AD, the ancient Hindu astronomer Bhaskaracharya states these lines.
Approximately 1200 years later (1687 AD), Sir Isaac Newton rediscovered / copied this phenomenon and called it the Law of Gravity.
Sage Bharadwaj In 1875, the Vymaanika- Shaastra, a fourth century BC text written by Maharshi Bhardwaj, was discovered in a temple in India.
Rishi Kanva; The science of wind has been explained by Sage Kanva in Rigveda sections 8/41/6 in Jagati meter of God wind. Sage Kashyapa has described the features and properties of this substance in Rigveda 9/64/26 in the hymns of God Pavamana Soma in meter Gayatri.
Kanva was a great Rishi, a descendent of Sage Angirasa. He looked after Shakuntala when she was abandoned by her mother and father (rishi Vishwamitra).
