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MATHEMATICS IN INDIA |
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Yajurveda
contains the numbers one, ten, hundred, thousand, ten thousand, upto a billion. The latter
they called Parardha.
Jain and Buddhist literature of ancient India also contain words for these numbers.
Mahavira was a great mathematician. The most famous
book of mathematics in Vedic India was the Vedanga Jyotisha. Lagadha was its author.
Jyotisha is a limb of the Vedas.
For performing yagas, the right day and time had to be chosen.
These our ancestors calculated by observing the stars in the sky. This science is called
astronomy.They knew the nakshatras in the sky and the time it took them to go one full
round in the sky. They divided the day and night into muhurtas.They also knew how to
calculate the time of eclipses of the sun and moon. |
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