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Dear Bhagavatas:
I am forwarding an article on Indian Astronomy, 
featured in a sister site. 
Hope you will find it interesting.
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>Subject: [induscivilization] with respect to ET/UFO, astronomy comes into 
>picture
>Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 10:35:15 -0000
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>Hari om!
>
>So, going ahead with the ET/UFO topic, i have this particular
>information about astronomy (which is indeed related to that). See
>how far Aryans (i would love to call so) had gone when the world was
>uncivilized. Europe was full of barbarians, China had people like
>Chengiz Khan and the Americas had not yet existed! Then, we Aryans
>were thinking of astronomy and topics like that!
>Just read, very interesting to read!
>
>Astronomy
>Indian astronomers have been mapping the skies for 3500 years.1000
>Years Before CopernicusCopernicus published his theory of the
>revolution of the Earth in 1543. A thousand years before him,
>Aryabhatta in 5th century (400-500 CE) stated that the Earth revolves
>around the sun, "just as a person travelling in a boat feels that the
>trees on the bank are moving, people on earth feel that the sun is
>moving". In his treatise Aryabhatteeam, he clearly states that our
>earth is round, it rotates on its axis, orbits the sun and is
>suspended in space and explains that lunar and solar eclipses occur
>by the interplay of the sun, the moon and the earth.The Law of
>Gravity - 1200 Years Before NewtonThe Law of Gravity was known to the
>ancient Indian astronomer Bhaskaracharya. In his Surya Siddhanta, he
>notes:"Objects fall on earth due to a force of attraction by the
>earth. therefore, the earth, the planets, constellations, the moon
>and the sun are held in orbit due to this attraction". It was not
>until the late 17th century in 1687, 1200 years later, that Sir Isaac
>Newton rediscovered the Law of Gravity. Measurement of Time in Surya
>Siddhanta, Bhaskaracharya calculates the time taken for the earth to
>orbit the sun to 9 decimal places. And one year according to
>Bhaskaracharya is 365.258756484 days precisely. Modern accepted
>measurement = 365.2596 days. Between Bhaskaracharya's ancient
>measurement 1500 years ago and the modern measurement the difference
>is only 0.00085 days, only 0.0002%.34000TH of a Second to 4.32
>Billion Years.
>
>India has given the idea of the smallest and the largest measure of
>time.
>
>Krati = 34,000th of a second
>1 Truti = 300th of a second
>2 Truti = 1 Luv
>2 Luv = 1 Kshana
>30 Kshana = 1 Vipal
>60 Vipal = 1 Pal
>60 Pal = 1 Ghadi (24 minutes)
>2.5 Gadhi = 1 Hora (1 hour)
>24 Hora = 1 Divas (1 day)
>7 Divas = 1 saptaah (1 week)
>4 Saptaah = 1 Maas (1 month)
>2 Maas = 1 Rutu (1 season)
>6 Rutu = 1 Varsh (1 year)
>100 Varsh = 1 Shataabda (1 century)
>10 Shataabda = 1 sahasraabda
>432 Sahasraabda = 1 Yug (Kaliyug)
>2 Yug = 1 Dwaaparyug
>3 Yug = 1 Tretaayug
>4 Yug = 1 Krutayug
>10 Yug = 1 Mahaayug (4,320,000 years)
>1000 Mahaayug = 1 Kalpa
>1 Kalpa = 4.32 billion years (interms of years)
>Jaya Bharati!







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