Some Known & Unknown facts about INDIA

I tried to collect some facts about India, which some may be aware of and some may not:

1.      India has never invaded any country in her last 10,000 years of history.

2.      India invented the number system. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.

3.      India established the world's first University at Takshasila in 700 B.C.

4.      Sanskrit is the mother of all European languages. It is the best suited language for computer software. (Forbes magazine, July 1987).

5.      Ayurveda is the earliest system of medicine known to humans.

6.      The art of navigation originated in the river Sindh 6000 years ago. Navigation comes from the Sanskrit word  "Nav Gatih".

7.      Bhaskaracharya calculated the time taken by earth to orbit the sun as 365.258756484 days (in 5th century AD)

8.      In the 6th century A.D Budhayana calculated the value of pi . Quadratic equations were propunded by Sridharacharya in the 11th century.

9.      According to the Gemological Institute of America , upto 1896, India was the only source for diamonds.

10.  IEEE has proved an age old suspicion that the pioneer of wireless communication is Jagdish Bose and not Marconi.

11.  The earliest reservoir and dam was built in Saurashtra, India during Chandragupta Maurya's time (300 B.C)

12.  Chess originated in India.

13.  Susruta is known as the father of surgery, performing complex surgeries as many as 2600 years ago.