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Ahoka ,  also spelled  Aśoka  (died  238?  bce , India) last major emperor in the  Mauryan  dynasty of  India . His vigorous patronage of  Buddhism  during his reign ( c.  265–238  bce ; also given as  c.  273–232 bce ) furthered the expansion of that  religion  throughout India. Following his successful but bloody conquest of the  Kalinga  country on the east coast, Ashoka renounced armed conquest and adopted a policy that he called “conquest by  dharma ” (i.e., by principles of right life). In order to gain wide publicity for his teachings and his work, Ashoka made them known by means of oral announcements and by engravings on rocks and pillars at suitable sites. These inscriptions—the  rock edicts  and pillar edicts (e.g., the  lion  capital of the pillar found at  Sarnath , which has become India’s national emblem), mostly dated in various years of his reign—...

Aryabhatta  was born in 476CE in Patliputra in Magadha, (modern Patna) in Bihar. He was the great mathematician-astronomer from the classical age of Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy. He is the man who invented “0” and helped the world solving its many issues. It is believed that Aryabhatta was born in region between Narmada and Godavri of central India. But exactly nothing is known about his birth place. Education According to some researches and studies it was found that at some point of time, Aryabhatta went to Kusumapura for advanced studies and lived there. He studied both Hindu as well as Buddhist tradition there. It is believed that Aryabhatta might have been the head of the Nalanda University, as it had an astronomical observatory at the time. Aryabhatta set up an observatory at the Sun temple in Taregana, Bihar. Career Aryabhatta’s major work is comprises of Mathematics and Astronomy. Most of the Aryabhatta’s work can be known from Aryabhatiy...

Bodhidharma crossing the river on a reedShaolin monks and disciples follow a unique practice among Buddhists in that they greet each other using only their right hand. This greeting is a tradition which dates back to Da Mo and his disciple, Hui Ke. In 495 AD, the Indian monk Ba Tuo, or Buddhabhadra, came to China teaching a form of Buddhism known as Xiao Sheng Buddhism. He was given land at the foot of Shaoshi mountain by Emperor Shao Wen and founded the Shaolin Temple on this land. Around the time that Ba Tuo was founding the Shaolin Temple there was an Indian prince named Bodhidharma. Bodhidharma was very intelligent and was the favorite son of the king of a region that is now part of southern India. Bodhidharma had two older brothers who feared that their father, the king, would pass them over and bequeath the kingship to Bodhidharma. In their jealousy, the two older brothers often disparaged Bodhidharma while talking with their father, hoping to turn him against their...

The existance of big bang theory in Rigveda HOW MANY INDIANS ARE KNOW ABOUT THIS GREAT KNOWLEDGE OF ANCIENT INDIA The Big Bang theory is a scientific effort to explain what happened at the very beginning of our universe. According to the standard theory, our universe is thought to have begun as an infinitely small, hot, dense, something - a singularity. Where did it come from? Why did it appear? Scientists have no answers. Prior to the singularity, nothing existed, neither space, nor time or matter. After its initial appearance, based on scientific theories, our universe expanded and cooled, going from very small and hot, to the size and temperature of our current universe. It continues to expand and cool to this day and we are inside of it. This is the Big Bang theory. There are many misconceptions surrounding the Big Bang theory. For example, we tend to imagine a giant explosion. Scientists however say that there was no explosion, but that there was, and continues t...