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Vedic Sages

Some of the great Vedic Sages include: Agasti, Angiras, Atri,

Bharadwaja, Bhrigu, Dadheechi, Durvas, Gautam, Jamadagni, Kanwa,

Kapila, Kashyap, Markandeya, Pulastya, Vaishampayan, Vasishta,

Vishwamitra, Vyas & Yadnyavalkya.

6,300BC Vashistha

The Kulapati, of the Gurukul on the banks of the river Saraswati. Over

a thousand disciples learnt Vedas at this ashram.

6,300BC Vishwamitra

He mastered the Vedas and became as great as his contemporary

Vasishta. He wrote the Gayatri Mantra and created Pratisrusthi.

3,100BC Ved Vyas

He wrote Brahmasutras, Mahabharat, and Bhagwat Puraan. He collected

all the Vedic mantras and wrote them in a standard format and accent.

Vedas existing today are as written down by Vyas.

800BC Sushrut

The Ayurvedic surgeon who performed cesareans, cataract operations,

artificial limbs, treated fractures, urinary stones, performed

plastic surgery and brain surgery too! Usage of anesthesia was also

known to him. He and his team of physicians used over 125 surgical

equipments.

600BC Kanad

He putforth the idea of the atomic constitution of materials.

500BC Panini

In a treatise called Astadhyayi, Panini provides 4,000 grammar rules

that describe the Sanskrit language of his day completely. This

grammar is acknowledged to be one of the greatest intellectual

achievements of all time. One may speak of a Panini machine as a

model for the most powerful computing system. More Info

500BC Patanjali

Bhagvan Patanjali is revered for his Yoga Sutras, that set the

principles of yoga. Today we know about meditation and Raja Yoga,

only due to Patanjali. He is also the author of Maha_bha_shya, an

elaboration of Panini's grammar.

350BC

Bakhsali manuscript presents rules and solutions to geometric, algebraic and arithmetical problems.

290BC Bhadrabahu

He solved the Pythagorean theorem.

100AD Charak

A great Ayurvedic Vaidya who wrote a book on Ayurvedic medicine called

Charak Samhita. He resided at the courts of the Kushan king Kanishka.

353AD Kalidas

He wrote poems of epic proportions, and is regarded as the most

outstanding writer of classical Sanskrit. He resided at the court of

the Gupta king Chandra Gupta II in Pataliputra. His works include:

Shakuntala, Vikramorvasi, Malavikagnimitra, Raghuvansa,

Kumarasambhava, Meghadoot, and Ritusamhar.

476AD Aryabhatta

He calculated the accurate values of Pi, length of the day and length

of the year. He believed that the Moon and planets shine by reflected

sunlight, incredibly he believed that the orbits of the planets are

ellipses (This was proved by Kepler, 1200 years later!). He correctly

explains the causes of eclipses of the Sun and the Moon.

598AD Brahmagupta

His understanding of the number systems was far beyond others of the

period. He gave remarkable formulas for the area of a cyclic

quadrilateral and for the lengths of the diagonals in terms of the

sides. Brahmagupta also studied arithmetic progressions, quadratic

equations, theorems on right-angled triangles, surfaces and volumes.

1114AD Bhaskaracharya

He understood 0 and negative numbers. He knew that x2=9 had two

solutions. Bhaskara studied Pell's equation. He studied many

Diophantine problems. His mathematical works include Lilavati,

Bijaganita and Karanakutuhala (Calculation of Astronomical Wonders).

1300AD Sayana

He was the minister at the court of Vijayanagar Emperor Bukka. He

explains a rucha in Rig Veda where the the speed of light is

calculated to be 2,202 yojanas in half a nimesha, which does come to

186,536 miles per second.

1500AD Madhava

Discovered the series for sin x, cos x, tan-1 x. About 150 years before Newton.

1861 Gurudev Ravindranath Tagore

Bengali poet, short-story writer, song composer, playwright, painter

and a patriot who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913.

He established the education centre: Shantiniketan.

Recent Seers

Some of the recent personalities: Homi Bhabha, J C Bose, C V Raman, S

Chandrasekhar, M Vishweshwaraiya, S N Bose, Meghnad Saha, Ramanujam,

Jayant Narlikar & A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.