Ancient Universities of Bharat
This ancient place, founded in 700 BCE, is considered one of the first universities in the world.
Takshashila
This astronomer was the first to say the Earth is round and that it spins on its axis.
Aryabhatta
This important concept, now essential in all math, was created in ancient Bharat.
Zero
Known as the father of medicine
Charaka
Name any 1 scholar who taught at Takshashila University.
HINT: Experts in grammar, medicine, and Politics
Panini (grammar), Charaka (medicine), and Chanakya (politics)
Over 1,200 years before Newton, this scientist discussed gravity in Surya Siddhanta.
Bhaskaracharya
This system, which uses digits 0–9 and place value, revolutionized math and computation.
Decimal system
This ancient surgeon performed cataract and even brain surgeries over 2,600 years ago.
Susruta
Known as the “Harvard of its times,” this university had over 10,500 students.
Nalanda
Sayana’s commentary on the Rigveda mentions the speed of this natural phenomenon.
Light
Pingala used light (laghu) and heavy(guru) to describe what?
Binary Numeral System
Patanjali defined yoga as ‘Yoga chitta vritti nirodhah,’ meaning control of this.
Fluctuations of thoughts
This empire founded Nalanda University in 427 CE.
Gupta Empire
This idea stated that the Sun does not move around the Earth, but the Earth actually moves around the Sun.
Heliocentric model
This mathematician calculated the value of pi and helped explain eclipses.
Aryabhatta
Susruta used more than 125 of these tools, sometimes made from animal jawbones.
Surgical instruments