Varahamihira<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nThe encouragement of science and technology helped many\nancient dynasties rule India with greater efficacy. Varahmira was a 6th<\/sup>\ncentury scientist of the Gupta period and his works contributed greatly in\nfields of hydrology, ecology, geology, astrology, and architecture. His most\nfamous work is the Brhat Samhita in which he details the earthquake-cloud-\ntheory in addition to several other important topics like architecture, cloud\nformations, gemology, and planetary motions.<\/p>\n\n\n\nHe also wrote Pancha-Siddhantika which is based on\nmathematical astronomy and is considered to be an important source of knowledge\nabout older texts which have now been lost. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sushruta<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nSushruta performing a surgery<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nPopularly known as the pioneer of surgery in India, Sushruta\nwas an ancient Indian physician who authored the Susruta Samhita which is one\nof the few surviving ancient India texts about medicine. It is considered to be\nthe basis of Ayurveda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His study of human anatomy, diseases and cures helped him\nconduct various surgeries like plastic surgery, cataract removal, removal of a\nfoetus from the womb, and removing stones from the bladder. Susruta Samhita\nalso includes the several tools and equipment used to conduct these surgeries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Charak<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nCharak<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nHe was a third-century scientist who lived in Kapisthal\n(present-day Kapurthala, Punjab). Having studied and practiced in the\nUniversity of Taxila, Charak became famous after he revised the treatise named\nAgnivesa, renaming it to Charaka Samhita. In addition to Sushruta Samhita, this\nbook helped in setting up the foundation for Ayurveda in ancient India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He carefully details the symptoms of several diseases and\nmethods of curing these diseases in his book. The scientist also founded the\nbasic principles of Genetics at a time when most of the world still believed\nthat the Earth was the center of the universe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Baudhayan<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nSome of the existing concepts of Mathematics have been\nborrowed from the works of Baudhayan, an ancient Indian mathematician who was\nthe first to calculate the value of pi. The Sulva Sutra is one of his works in\nwhich he discovered the Pythagoras theorem long before the rest of the world\nlearned about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He worked on several other theorems like the square root of\n2, circling the square, diagonals of a rectangle bisect each other, and area of\na square formed by joining midpoints of a square is half of the original. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kanad<\/strong>a<\/h3>\n\n\n\nKanad<\/strong>a<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nKanada was a sixth-century scientist whose contribution to the atomic theory was way ahead of his time. He stated that the universe was built up of very small particles known as kanas<\/em>(atoms) which cannot be seen by the unaided human eye.<\/p>\n\n\n\nHe also made several observations like objects falling to\nthe ground and fire rising upwards. He used these observations to research\nfurther on his theory of atoms. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
India in ancient times wasn\u2019t just the land of snake charmers. The country had a distinctive taste for science and technology which is clearly visible in ancient architecture and texts. India was the homeland to some of the greatest scientists in the world whose works paved the way for modern<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":375,"featured_media":348293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,15,3,1964],"tags":[16625,218,611,71,451,33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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