I guess Stranger required Answers to these questions.
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* Several of the claims made on this thread go far beyond what is acknowledged. For instance, whilst the Sanskrit verse on pi keeps cropping up as an example of "ancient" Indian knowledge (and has been cited on this thread as such), no-one I have asked has been able to cite an early source for it.
Yes It takes time for truth to come out. But eventually it does come out as Now. Its just like a Submerged Dwaraka. People used to consider Stories of Krishna as mere fables but now? They have some evidence.
And if you want proofs for every post then probably u cannot post anything. As a good proof begins with a solid assumption. Why bother when we have lot of posts on tamil even stupid posts like Dravdian country extending to South America. Duh!!! Why not extend till Mars?
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* One correspondent said he had found it in a book, printed in the 1970s, where it was cited as an example of how the mnemonic technique could be used, and made no claim as to the antiquity of the verse.
Okay Yes So what he had told you that he had seen it in a book. Well any positive guess on Antiquity cannot be made at any time.
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* Unfortunately, he did not give me the name of the book.
Yes, that shows his frankness and clearly exhibits he is not lying.
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It is also troubling that we tend to completely ignore cases where ancient Indian mathematics got things wrong. For example,
* Aryabhatta's formulae for calculating the area of a pyramid are simply incorrect (Elfering's protestations notwithstanding).
* We do not address the total lack of interest in experimental verification which they seemed to display in relation to the pure sciences, the use of mimamsa of all things to interpret the works of earlier mathematicians, the correction by commentators of portions of Aryabhatta's and other texts which they found unacceptable and - above all - the fact that most mathematics texts saw it only as a means to more effectively conducting astrological predictions and performing religious rituals.
* None of these are positive tendencies, but we simply cannot understand our country's past or face up to the realities of our present until we accept and seriously try to understand them.
* Why do we need to idealise and romanticise Indian culture and ancient Indian society?
* Why can't we feel secure enough of who we are to accept it as it was and as it is?
Thats not true, In every book the inability to express anything has been clearly illucidated. It is a basic human nature that we try to list out positive things. I am sure everyone here takes pride in saying that he proceeded with this and got it right. there cannot be any genious who has not committed any mistake in proving anything. Now any guy who says that he is expert in cycling does mean that he was once a beginner and he would have gotten hurt when he was trying cycling for the first time. Sania mirza gets awarded a Padmashri for her achievements in Tennis. Now going with ur explanation Indian govt. should not give her padmashri because she has lost in a number of games. Duh! Why are Elections held still in our country when Some elections have miserably failed?
Everyone romanticizes his culture. A man without Loving his culture is a Sanyasi. Just because u r married if u fail to love ur wife will it be a good life? We can accept that she is our wife . Can we fail to romaticize her and just leave her as she is ? Can u stop respecting ur Parents and leave them as they are ?
Sorry friend.
All right coming back to ur question. I am not ready to accept Aravindans answers as such. But i appreciate his honesty in admitting his thoughts. I am for truth.
I am not here for promotion of tamil thereby bashing Vedic scholars.
If u r feeling hard to accept Vedic scholars as real scholars i am sorry you are terribly and fradulently mistaken and will never prosper in ur field.
If someone points out there are no Tamil Mathematics scholars will u agree or not?
I think this shows not only ur biasedness against Sanskrit and anything related to Sanksrit .
Hope all ends well.