Amazing Facts About India

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10 Mind Boggling Facts About Ancient India We
Bet You Didnt Know Undoubtedly, India is a
heritage rich country with advanced ancient
techniques, advanced culture, rich history and
scientifically welloff. Ancient Indias
contribution to the world is highly impressive
and enthralling. The Indian civilizations have
flourished for more than 6,000 years and have
been one of the richest countries in the world.
In Ancient India, many fascinating things have
been invented and followed.The Indian
civilization was way more advanced in their
systems, technology, thinking and practices
while most of the other civilizations were in
their Stone Age. The Indians were able to
easily extract zinc from brass, cultivate cotton
on a large scale, build highly advanced drainage
systems, perform cesarean and even build large
ships. Below here are the list of 10 facts about
Ancient India will leave you in
astonishment Budhayana was the first person to
calculate the value of Pi in India in 800
BCE. ? He also explained the Pythagoras Theorem
concept.
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Image ListAmaze India is the birthplace of Yoga
about 5,000 years ago. Yoga is a form of
spiritual, ? mental and physical practices to
enhance ones health and well being.
Image ListAmaze Indias School of Medicine
known as Ayurveda is traced back to 6,000 years
ago. ?
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Image ListAmaze India knew the Extraction
of Zinc by the Process of Distillation as
early as 10th ? century BC.
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Image ListAmaze Jainism and Buddhism, which
are now termed as the two major religions
were ? established in India in 600 and 500 BC,
respectively.
Image ListAmaze About 2600 years ago, India
knew Plastic Surgery. Sushruta is considered as
the ? father of surgery who knew around 300 kinds
of operations and and he worked with more around
125 surgical instruments.
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Image ListAmaze In the 5th century, Aryabhata
correctly explained Solar Eclipse and Lunar
Eclipse. ?
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About 6,000 years back, the Art of Navigation was
known to India. It was developed ? in the Indus
river.
Image Wikimedia Along with the Decimal system,
the number Zero was invented in India in the
5th ? century during the Gupta period.
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Image Wikimedia The Indus Valley
Civilization which is termed as one of
the worlds oldest ? civilizations is known to
have existed some 3300 1300 BCE.
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