Guest guest Posted March 5, 2001 Report Share Posted March 5, 2001 SrI:SrI Lakshminrusimha ParabrahmaNE namaHSrI Lakshminrusimha Divya-PAdukA SEvaka SrIvaN -SaThakOpa SrI nArAyaNa yateendra mahAdESikAya namaH namO nArAyaNa! Dear Bhaktas, Sri.Narender Reddy had raised the following questions regarding the usage of the Gregorian Calendar. My two cents worth on this topic is given below: Sri Narender Reddy wrote: ****************************** >Yes, in the age of Kali yuga, when a majority of the>so called Sri Vaishnavas are celebrating the mid night>of January first (Christian New Year) as their own New>Year, and celebrating the Christian Millennium as>their own sending Christian Millennium greetings to>one another (even on the internet), I guess God could>be reduced to that of an "IDOL." Adiyen's two cents worth reply *********************************** Ahem, I stand to differ. First of all There is nothing called the "Christian New Year" as you opine. It is true that the earth takes 365 odd days to complete one revolution around the sun. This one complete Revolution is taken as the standard "year". There is nothing Christian about it. It is scientifically valid. This was not suggested by Saint.X or Saint.Y or Saint.Z. It was Aryabhatta, the ancient Hindu Mathematician who was the first to Calculate how many days the earth takes to travel around the Sun. He calculated it to be 365 days 6 hours 12 minutes 30 seconds. The standard taken now is 365 days and 6 hours. From this it is clear that our pUrvAcharyas had solid knowledge of mathematics. You may wish to visit the link on Aryabhatta: http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Aryabhata_I.html ***The Calendar at present is a modification of the calculations of Aryabhatta. It was first modified by the Romans, which is why the months of July and August are named after Roman Emperors. The emperors are Julius Caesar and Augustus Caesar Respectively. For your information, The Romans were not Christians, infact some roman dictator ordered the persecution of Jesus.**** The contributions of our pUrvAcharyas to the field of mathematics are like pillars supporting the roof. It is only due to our acharyas that there are advances in all field of science known to humanity. Without mathematics, you would not be reading this email message on your computer screen, pay credit card bills, or click on the mouse which will be in your right hand now. It is noteworthy to mention Pierre Laplace quotations on Hindu Mathematics: "The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol having a place value and an absolute value) emerged in India. The idea seems so simple nowadays that its significance and profound importance is no longer appreciated. Its simplicity lies in the way it facilitated calculation and placed arithmetic foremost amongst useful inventions. the importance of this invention is more readily appreciated when one considers that it was beyond the two greatest men of Antiquity, Archimedes and Apollonius" Laplace implies that there can be nothing great than Hindu mathematics. I highly suggest you visit the following link to learn more about Hindu mathematics. http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Indian_mathematics.html kavi taarkika simhaaya kalyaana gunashaaline srimathe venkateshaya vedanta gurave namaha Adiyen Ramanuja Daasan, Malolan Cadambi, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Iowa State University. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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