10 facts from Indian mythology that would reaffirm your faith on Mass amnesia!

 

-Shishir Kumar

India is a land of mystery. When we add ancient to the current Indian map the mystery gets graver. How were we 4000 years ago? Literature here take us on a mystical journey into our missing past that looks exactly like the one we are living today. Read and get a serious jolt to rethink if we are missing our yesterday or we are living a time loop!

1. Dasaavtra - Theory of evolution

 While the rest of the world waited for Theory of evolution till 19th century, India had it since 3138 BCE. The Dasvtara is about the incarnation of the Hindu God Vishnu. According to it God incarnated on earth the following sequence - Fish (Water dweller), Turtle (water and Land Dweller), boar (Land dweller), Narshima (Half human half animal), Dwarf (The undeveloped human), Parshuram (the hunter), Rama (homo sapiens) the ninth Krishna was portrayed as the smarter upgrade while the ninth that is yet to come shall be responsible for the destruction of Earth – we see our future right!

2. Vedas and Astronomy 

Rig Veda 1.35.9 -“The sun moves in it’s own orbit but holding earth and other heavenly bodies in a manner that they do not collide with each other through force of attraction”. While Bruno was burned alive for saying this, the ancient Indian text stated and believed the same in 1500 BC.  Another 10.22.14 of Rig Veda says “This earth is devoid of hands and legs, yet it moves ahead. All the objects over the earth also move with it. It moves around the sun”. The speed of light, the reason behind solar eclipse, the distance between Sun and Earth, the length of year are a few things accurately measured and written in their texts 

3. Vimans the modern day Aircrafts

 The mythological work of Ramayana, written on the life of the seventh incarnation is something that the modern UFOlogist point as a proof of ancient technology and alien intervention in our lives.  The epic mentions a flying saucer called the pushpak vimana that used air route to travel. Also there is book called Viman Sastra is a part of ancient vedas that talks about building a flying craft that ran on purified mercury and was written much before Wright brothers came up with the first plane.  However, this book can’t be decoded fully now as many Sanskrit words are obsolete or not known. 

4. Dwarka the oldest civilization

As the city under the bay of Cambay was being discovered with it came the proofs of the mythological story of Mahabharata, whose king was Krishna and who ruled this area. While most of the carbon dating made it feel that the city was of around 3200-1700BC but a piece of wood carved changed it all and the proof of the city being some  of 7200BC came into existence, If the latter is further explored this would be the oldest planned city. 

5. Bhramastra – Nuclear Weapon

The legends of Mahabharata also mentions another significant hint of scientific advancements in that age the Bhramastra – the weapons that could be used once and can destroy all. As the poetic epic that weapon was used on the north-western part of India. That stands exactly where the ruin of Harappa civilization has been found. Moreover, the crater created by the said attacked has been found, the soil of the area is still radioactive and what more scientist believe that the molten brick of the lost city can be a fallout of being exposed to high temperature that can only happen in a nuclear explosion.  Yes this too happened 2000 years before Christ!

6. Jagannath Temple in Puri that defies Science!

Now this is what we call alien technology. This ancient temple was built around in the eleventh century and is full of miracles. Many mythological stories have been written in praise of Lord Jagannath. To start with the flag of the temple always flaps in the opposite direction of breeze. Irrespective of the direction one stands in the Sudarshan chakra on the top of the temple always faces you. The Sea and the land breeze in the area are reverse. The shadow of the main dome is never visible; you cannot hear the ocean once inside the temple. Even if it is all due to architecture, we have lost it!

7. Ancient Antigravity Device – The Somnath Temple

Rig Veda 10.22.14

“This earth is devoid of hands and legs, yet it moves ahead. All the objects over the earth also move with it. It moves around the sun.’’ As they wrote this in they also learned to defy this. Not only the Vimanas, but this temple had flying idol of Lord Somnath that rested in air. In 1025 A.D., Mahmud, the moslem Turkish ruler of Ghazni when landed into the temple was amazed to see this. He destroyed the temple then and with the alternation in the surrounding the idol was brought down.

8. Kaurwas - the concept test tube babies 

Kaurwas from Mahabharata were 100 children born to the same mother as per the epic describes Gandhari as a mother of 100 sons who were called Kauravas, the eldest of them being Dhuryodhana. The Kauravas were created by splitting the single embryo into 100 parts and growing each part in a separate kund (container).  The  birth story of Karna & the Pandavas shockingly  resembles the modern test tube baby concept. Being born from the “characteristics adopted from men of her choice”  

9. Surgery an ancient Indian Art.

Plastic surgery was done in India in 600 BC and that is not it! The practice of surgery has been recorded in India around 800 B.C. This need not come as a surprise because surgery (Shastrakarma) is one of the eight branches of Ayurveda the ancient Indian system of medicine. Shushruta was one of the first to study the human anatomy. In the ShusrutaSamahita he has described in detail the study of anatomy with the aid of a dead body. Shusruta's forte was rhinoplasty (Plastic surgery) and ophthalmialogy (ejection of cataracts). Shushruta has described surgery under eight heads Chedya (excision), Lekhya (scarification), Vedhya (puncturing), Esya (exploration), Ahrya (extraction), Vsraya (evacuation) and Sivya (Suturing).

10. Ram Setu -floating bridge between India and Sri Lanka

 It’s a bridge between the two countries made up of floating rocks and if mythology is to be believed it is made, It first finds its reference in the mythological book Ramayan, in which a Prince of north travels to Sri Lanka to fight his enemy. The book mentions the exact place of the Adam’s bridge and about the floating rocks. The whole of the bridge was visible before a cyclone covered it partially in the 19th century. Science has tried to prove the reason to debunk this theory of God’s miracle, however, has not come up with a very convincing theory. Yes we are still finding a reason why rocked lined up to form a bridge between to lands and while kept floating unlike the nature of the rocks found in that area!(Source - http://www.speakingtree.in/allslides/science-behind-the-floating-stones-of-ram-setu)