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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Scientific Verification of Vedic Knowledge: Archaeology Online
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Renowned Thinkers Who Appreciated the Vedic Literature
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Although early indologists, in their missionary zeal, widely vilified the Vedas as primitive mythology, many of the worlds greatest thinkers admired the Vedas as great repositories of advanced knowledge and high thinking[/FONT]
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Arthur Schopenhauer, the famed German philosopher and writer, wrote that: I "...encounter [in the Vedas] deep, original, lofty thoughts... suffused with a high and holy seriousness."
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The well-known early American writer Ralph Waldo Emerson, read the Vedas daily. Emerson wrote: [/FONT][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"I owed a magnificent day to the Bhagavat-Gita" [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Henry David Thoreau said: "In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita... in comparison with which... our modern world and its literature seems puny and trivial."[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]So great were Emerson and Thoreau's appreciation of Vedantic literatures that they became known as the American transcendentalists. Their writings contain many thoughts from Vedic Philosophy.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Other famous personalities who spoke of the greatness of the Vedas were: Alfred North Whitehead (British mathematician, logician and philosopher), who stated that: "Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived."[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Julius Robert Oppenheimer, the principle developer of the atomic bomb, stated that "The Vedas are the greatest privilege of this century." During the explosion of the first atomic bomb, Oppenheimer quoted several Bhagavad-gita verses from the 11th chapter, such as: [/FONT]
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"Death I am, cause of destruction of the worlds..."
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]When Oppenheimer was asked if this is the first nuclear explosion, he significantly replied: "Yes, in modern times," implying that ancient nuclear explosions may have previously occurred.[/FONT]
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Lin Yutang, Chinese scholar and author, wrote that: "India was China's teacher in trigonometry, quadratic equations, grammar, phonetics... " and so forth.

[/FONT][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Francois Voltaire stated: "... everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges."[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]From these statements we see that many renowned intellectuals believed that the Vedas provided the origin of scientific thought.[/FONT]

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The Vedic literature contain descriptions of advanced scientific techniques, sometimes even more sophisticated than those used in our modern technological world.
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Modern metallurgists have not been able to produce iron of comparable quality to the 22 foot high Iron Pillar of Delhi, which is the largest hand forged block of iron from antiquity. [/FONT]
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This pillar stands at mute testimony to the highly advanced scientific knowledge of metallurgy that was known in ancient India.
Cast in approximately the 3rd century B.C., the six and a half ton pillar, over two millennia has resisted all rust and even a direct hit by the artillary of the invading army of Nadir Shah during his sacking of Delhi in 1737. [/FONT]
 
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Vedic Cosmology[/FONT]
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Vedic Cosmology is yet another ancient Vedic science which can be confirmed by modern scientific findings and this is acknowledged by well known scientists and authors, such as Carl Sagan and Count Maurice Maeterlinck, who recognized that the cosmology of the Vedas closely parallels modern scientific findings.
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Carl Sagan stated, "Vedic Cosmology is the only one in which the time scales correspond to those of modern scientific cosmology."[/FONT]
Nobel laureate Count Maurice Maeterlinck wrote of: "a Cosmogony which no European conception has ever surpassed."
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]French astronomer Jean-Claude Bailly corroborated the antiquity and accuracy of the Vedic astronomical measurements as "more ancient than those of the Greeks or Egyptians." And that, "the movements of the stars calculated 4,500 years ago, does not differ by a minute from the tables of today."[/FONT]
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The ninety foot tall astronomical instrument known as Samrat Yantra, built by the learned King Suwai Jai Singh of Jaipur, measures time to within two seconds per day.
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Cosmology and other scientific accomplishments of ancient India spread to other countries along with mercantile and cultural exchanges. There are almost one hundred references in the Rig Veda alone to the ocean and maritime activity. This is confirmed by Indian historian R. C. Majumdar, who stated that the people of the Indus-Sarasvata Civilization engaged in trade with Sooma and centers of culture in western Asia and Crete.[/FONT]

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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]An example of these exchanges is found in the inscriptions on the Heliodorus Column, erected in 113 B.C.E. by Heliodorus, a Greek ambassador to India, and convert to Vaisnavism, as well as the 2nd century B.C.E. Coins of Agathocles, showing images of Krishna and Balaram. These artifacts stand testimony that Sanatan Dharma predates Christianity.[/FONT]
 
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]This also confirms the link between India and other ancient civilizations such as Greece and shows that there was a continuous exchange of culture, philosophy and scientific knowledge between India & other countries. Indeed the Greeks learned many wonderful things from India. [/FONT]
 
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