Reasons of numerous castes in early medieval India Increasing pride of birth, characteristic of feudal society, and the accompanying self-sufficient village economy, which prevented both spatial and occupational...
We know about the administration of Harsha mostly from the accounts of Huen Tsang, who was most impressed by the Civil Administration. The principal source of revenue was...
Banabhatta is considered the greatest ornament in the literary circle of Harsha Vardhana. Bana’s Kadambari is not only the most celebrated prose romance in Sanskrit, but also the...
The period assigned to Harsha or Harsha Vardhana (हर्षवर्धन) reign is 606AD until 648 AD. For Harsha’s period, though the historians have the ordinary numismatics and epigraphic sources,...
Huen Tsang or Xuanzang was a Chinese Buddhist Traveler who belongs to early Tang period of China. He was born in Henan province. He was basically interested in...
Ayurveda adopts the physics of the five elements viz. Prithvi(earth), Jala(water), Agni (fire), Vayu(air) and Akasha (ether)). It notes that these five elements compose the Universe as well...
To understand Ghati Yantra , we go observe the following Shloka The meaning of the above shloka is that a Ghatika or (bowl) is a hemispherical vessel made...
The Indian scholar Pingala (circa. 5th-2nd century BC) used binary numbers in the form of short and long syllables (the latter equal in length to two short syllables)....
Aryabhatta was the legendary mathematician of the Gupta Era. He wrote Aryabhattiya at the age of 23 years and later, Arya-Siddhanta. He worked on the approximation for pi...
To understand Vikala, kala, bhaga and bhagana, we refer to the following shloka from Surya Siddhanta The above shloka means Sixty vikala is one kala, sixty units (kala)...
