For more than 10,000 years, Indian civilizations have flourished and have been one of the richest countries in the world. The rich history of India is surprising and unbelievable even today. Thus, having such a rich culture and history, there are many interesting facts from the ancient history...
He was considered to be one of the greatest emperors of India and ruled the Maurya dynasty. He was said to be an aggressive king and was known as Ashoka the Fierce. Another famous emperor was Samudragupta, also known as “India’s Napoleon,” who was leader of the Gupta dynasty from 33...
Top 13 Interesting Facts about the Vedic Period The Vedic period of ancient India refers to the time between the Indus civilization and the occupation of the Indo-Gangetic plain. The name “Vedic” comes from the Vedas which are sacred texts of the period. The Vedas have been classified into...
They say that all civilizations begin with a body of water. In the study of ancient history, the first civilizations formed on river banks. If the Mesopotamians originated on the Tigris/Euphrates rivers, the ancient Chinese on the Huang Ho or Yellow River, and ancient India on the Indus riv...
brought there by four Chinese girls according to one legend. Another popular legend says that the secret was transmitted to India via a Chinese princess who hid some eggs in the lining of her head dress. Another legend has it that European monks, who were sent to China in the sixth century...
Calendars of India: Theory and Practice – Book in the Workshop15/05/2021 Fact 102 – Some interesting words in our Mother Tongue22/11/2020 Fact 94 – There was a school of Sanskrit analysis that was based on semantics (including thoughts on NASA’s paper “Knowledge Representation in Sansk...
Vedic number words and geometry Sanskrit, the classical language ofIndiaand the chief medium for its premodern mathematical texts, maintained a strictly oral literary tradition for many centuries. Even after writing was introduced, the traditional writing materials, such as palm leaves, birch bark, ...
grew rich on themaritimetrade with India; Charax became the main entrepôt for trade after the fall of the Seleucids. In the north there was no principal city, but several towns, such asArbela(modern Irbīl) andNisibis(modernNusaybin), later became important centres. In the desert region,...
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One of the earliest and most important religious texts of ancient India, the Rig-Veda is the oldest of the four collections of hymns and other sacred texts known as the Vedas. These works are considered the "sacred knowledge" of the Aryans, a people who invaded India in about 1600 B.C...