INDIAN CULTURES AND TRADITIONS

Cow was sacred from ancient vedic times.In the Hindu tradition the cow is honoured and given special feedings in festival times all over India. In the Vedas cows represents wealth and joyous earthly life.In the Mahabharata, we have Bhishma saying: "Cows represent sacrifice. Without them, there can be no sacrifice…Cows are guileless in their behavior and from them flow sacrifices…and milk and curds and butter. Hence cows are sacred...".Of all gifts, gifting cow is still considered the highest in rural India. Lord Rama was given a dowry of thousands of Cows and bullocks when he married Sita Devi.                                Kamadhenu aslo known as 'surabhi' is divine goddess described in Hinduism as mother of all cows.  Kamadhenu is regarded as a form of Devi and is closely related to the fertile Mother Earth, who is often described as a cow in Sanskrit. The sacred cow denotes "purity and non-erotic...

Ancient India can be acredited with many acheivements... Earliest known precise celestial calculations: Aryabhata, an Indian Mathematician (c. 500AD) accurately calculated celestial constants like earth's rotation per solar orbit, days per solar orbit, days per lunar orbit. Astronomical time spans: Apart from the peoples of the Mayan civilization, the ancient Hindus appear to be the only people who even thought beyond a few thousand years. Hindu scriptures refer to time scales that vary from ordinary earth day and night to the day and night of the Brahma that are a few billion earth years long. Theory of creation of the universe: A 9th century Hindu scripture, The Mahapurana by Jinasena claims that the world is uncreated, as time itself is, without beginning and end. And it is based on principles. Earth goes round the sun: Aryabhata, it so happens, was apparently quite sceptical of the widely held doctrines about eclipses and also about the belief that the Sun goes ro...

SANSKRIT Vedic Sanskrit is the oldest form of the language and was used to explain the Vedas (knowledge) that framed the first known forms of Indian religious expression.Sanskrit has come most commonly to be expressed through the Devanagri script. Vedic literature includes the Samhitas, which are four collections of texts: the Yajur-Veda, the Sama-Veda, the Atharva-Veda, and the Rig-Veda. The last three of these consist of verse forms used by priests in ritual chants. However, the Yajur-Veda may be divided into two parts, one of which—the Black, or Krishna, Yajur-Veda—contains both ritual verses (mantras) associated with sacrifice, as well as explanatory Brahmana, which detail meanings for mythological terms and concepts and also the derivations of some words. These works predate Buddhism and have been dated to c. 1000 b.c.e. As the Vedic age continued, more literature was written in Sanskrit that was of a nonsacred nature. Panini, the earliest known writer about Sanskrit and i...