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Reference of Planets in our Scriptures.

 

 

sudeshji:

 

here is some more references to the Sun giod and mother earth in the

Vedas !

 

please read on :

 

Advanced Scientific Concepts in Hindu Literature

 

" O disciple, a student in the science of government, sail in oceans

in steamers, fly in the air in airplanes, know God the creator

through the Vedas, control thy breath through yoga, through astronomy

know the functions of day and night, know all the Vedas, Rig, Yajur,

Sama and Atharva, by means of their constituent parts. "

 

" Through astronomy, geography, and geology, go thou to all the

different countries of the world under the sun. Mayest thou attain

through good preaching to statesmanship and artisanship, through

medical science obtain knowledge of all medicinal plants, through

hydrostatics learn the different uses of water, through electricity

understand the working of ever lustrous lightening. Carry out my

instructions willingly. " (Yajur-veda 6.21).

 

" O royal skilled engineer, construct sea-boats, propelled on water

by our experts, and airplanes, moving and flying upward, after the

clouds that reside in the mid-region, that fly as the boats move on

the sea, that fly high over and below the watery clouds. Be thou,

thereby, prosperous in this world created by the Omnipresent God, and

flier in both air and lightning. " (Yajur-veda 10.19).

 

" The atomic energy fissions the ninety-nine elements, covering its

path by the bombardments of neutrons without let or hindrance.

Desirous of stalking the head, ie. The chief part of the swift power,

hidden in the mass of molecular adjustments of the elements, this

atomic energy approaches it in the very act of fissioning it by the

above-noted bombardment. Herein, verily the scientists know the

similar hidden striking force of the rays of the sun working in the

orbit of the moon. " (Atharva-veda 20.41.1-3).

 

(source: Searching for Vedic India - By Devamitra Swami p. 155 -

157). For more refer to chapter on Hindu Culture and Vimanas).

 

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The Rig Veda is the oldest Indian text and one of the oldest From

this approach it follows that the Rig Veda seers were scientists in

the modern sense. Pre-Rig Veda astronomers, had, in fact measured the

sphericity of the Earth, established the heliocentric theory in its

modern form, and explained the seasons astronomically. Advanced

concepts like the causes of auroral displays were also understood.

The Rig Veda is according to astronomical grounds, more than five

thousand years old. The Rig Veda repeatedly refers to Earth and the

heavens as " bowls " thus suggesting that the sphericity of Earth was

recognized. This can be confirmed by several hymns as well. Several

hymns are attributed to the Aswins, which are the planets Mercury and

Venus. A Rig Veda hymn to the Asvins, quoted in the Mahabharata, also

refers to the twelve zodiacal signs. Undoubtedly, the twelve zodiacal

signs were known. Thus, the earliest reference to the zodiacal signs

is, therefore, in the Rig Veda, not in the Babylonian literature.

 

Sphericity of Earth:

 

The existence of rather advanced concepts like the sphericity of

Earth and the cause of seasons is quite clear in Vedic literature.

For example, the Aitareya Brahmana (3.44) declares:

 

" The Sun does never set nor rise. When people think the Sun is

setting (it is not so). For after having arrived at the end of the

day it makes itself produce two opposite effects, making night to

what is below and day to what is on the other side…Having reached the

end of the night, it makes itself produce two opposite effects,

making day to what is below and night to what is on the other side.

In fact, the Sun never sets…. "

 

Earth as Flat at Poles:

 

" Twenty-four centuries before Isaac Newton, the Hindu Rig-Veda

asserted that gravitation held the universe together. The Sanskrit

speaking Aryans d to the idea of a spherical earth in an era

when the Greeks believed in a flat one. The Indians of the fifth

century A.D. calculated the age of the earth as 4.3 billion years;

scientists in 19th century England were convinced it was 100 million

years. "

 

(source: Lost Discoveries: The Ancient Roots of Modern Science - By

Dick Teresi p. 7 - 8).

 

It is quite remarkable that the Markandeya Purana (54.12) speaks of

Earth as being flattened at the poles and bulging at the equator,

that is, not perfectly spherical.

 

The Vishnu Purana, in an obvious elaboration of the above quotation

from the Aitareya Brahmana, also speaks of antipodes of Earth and

indeed implies the existence of Earth's rotation. In addition, even

more elementary concepts like the phases of Moon and the cause of

twilight were well understood, as was the fact that the blue sky is

nothing but scattered sunlight. (cf. Markandeya Purana, 78.8, or

103.9)

 

Sun the center of the Solar System:

 

Dick Teresi has observed that:

 

" The Vedas recognized the sun as the source of light and warmth, the

source of life, and center of creation, and the center of the

spheres. This perception may have planted a seed, leading Indian

thinkers to entertain the idea of heliocentricity long before some

Greeks thought of it. An ancient Sanskrit couplet also contemplates

the idea of multiple suns:

 

" Sarva Dishanaam, Suryaham Suryaha, Surya. "

 

Roughly translated this means, " There are suns in all directions, the

night sky being full of them, " suggesting that early sky watchers may

have realized that the visible stars are similar in kind to the sun.

A hymn of the Rig Veda, the Taittriya Brahmana, extols,

nakshatravidya (nakshatra means stars; vidya, knowledge). "

 

" Two thousand years before Pythagoras, philosophers in northern India

had understood that gravitation held the solar system together, and

that therefore the sun, the most massive object, had to be at its

center. "

 

(source: Lost Discoveries: The Ancient Roots of Modern Science - By

Dick Teresi p. 1 and 130).

 

One frequently encounters the concepts of the Sun being at the center

of the solar system (cf Markandeya Purana, 106. 41). All this pales,

however, before the concept, startlingly similar to the twentieth-

century model, of an oscillating universe, or more accurately, a

universe being cyclically created and destroyed, with just about the

right time period of about 10,000 million years.

 

(cf. Mahabharata Santi Parva, or Markandeya Purana, 81, 57-58).

 

The Rig Veda repeatedly asks, " How is it that though the Sun is not

bound and is directed downwards, it does not fall? " A question asked

by Isaac Newton more than three thousand years later, and no one

else, because the Greeks had furnished the crystal spheres to which

these objects were attached!

 

When we talk of gravity, Newton comes to our mind, but in the text

Surya Sidhantha dated around 400 AD, Bhaskaracharya described it

stated. " objects fall on the earth due to one force. The Earth,

planets, constellations, moon and sun are held in orbit because of

that one force " .

 

" Seven horses draw the chariot of Surya " . Rg Veda 5. 45. 9

 

These seven horses are the seven colors compromising light. These

seven colors become visible in a rainbow or when light passes through

a prism. "

 

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