INDIAN ASTRONOMY

   India is known for its traditions and their significance with current scientifical facts. India is the birth place for many Vedas and Upanishads. India is also the birth place many scientists, in Sanskrit they are called as Muni or Rushi. These scientists of ancient india invented many things without using any equipments. They used their powers known as ‘divya drishti’ to know the things that are actually happening. One of such fine inventions of Indian scientists is ‘Astronomy’. The science that tells us the secrets of universe.

    The inventors of Indian astronomy are Bramha Guptha and Varahimihira. Both the scientists are the inventors of astronomy. The scientists were always correct in their calculations about the universe. When the other part of the world didn’t even know that there are nine planets in the galaxy, our scientists were able to find it without using any advanced equipments like Telescope or any other thing. We still can find the nine planets in every Indian temple called as ‘ nava graha’. Graha means planet, Nava means nine., i.e., nine planets. Even in those nine planets Surya (The Sun) will be in the middle and all the other planets will be rotating around him. This was known to our ancestors a long ago only. That is the greatness of our Indian astronomy.  

Let me explain you the greatness of our Indian astronomy with another example.

Do You Know Arundhathi Star? :

   Arundhathi star, it s pretty famous in southern part of india. In south india both bride and groom will be asked to see the arundhathi star during the ceremony of their marriage. Why they are following this tradition? What is its scientific significance.

In actual, Arundhathi is not a single star, it’s a twin star. That means they are two stars which looks like one single star. There are so many twin stars in this galaxy, but why they insist us to look at arundhathi particularly? The reason is in general in a twin star one star will be a moving star and the other will be a non-moving star. Whereas in arundhathi both the stars rotate among each other. This is the specialty of arundhathi star. And this cannot be observed in any other stars. In short arundhathi star is a symbolic representation of relationship between husband and wife.

   Our Indian astrologers were able to find this thousands of years ago, when there were no telescopes or any other advanced equipments. This is the greatness of Indian scientists. Not only this there are somany other examples that explain the greatness of our sciences and beliefs together. I will discuss about some