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to come here for its wealth and knowledge, including Columbus
who lost direction and reached Americas though his destination
was India.
We will briefly mention other positive sciences in the Vedas:
a) The moon reflects the sun's light and it does not emit
its own light ...
atraha goramanvata ittha
candramaso grhe
(Rg 1.84.15)
b) Airplanes ...
vimana esa divo madhya Tata
Yv 17.59
c) There is one and only one creator — that one and only
Deva, who sees everywhere, whose face is everywhere,
whose hands reach everywhere, whose feet walk
everywhere, He mobilizes the matter first, then through
the atomic particles, He creates the sun and the earth
and so on ...
viSvataicaksuruta viivatomukha
vtivatobahuruta vikvataspat ...sam bahubhyam dhamati
Rg 10.81.3
d) Political system consisting of law and order — lawmaker
(brahma)
and law-enforcing
(ksatra)
agencies....yatra
brahma ca ksatratica samyalicau
..Yv 20.25 and ...
idam
me brahma ca ksatram ca cobhe
...Yv 32.16.
e) Vital forces keep us alive, including the working of our
senses
...pranaya apanaya vytintlya caksuse Srotraya
voce svaha manase svaha
Yv 22.23
f) Ten directions of east, south, west, north and four in-
between directions such as south-east, etc. and then the
zenith and the one below ...
priicyai arvacyai daksinayai
praticyai udicyai ardhvayai ...Yv
22.24
g) Different sources of water ...
adbhyalt varbhyah udakaya
titsthantibhyalt srvantibhyah syandmanabhyah
kapyabhyah sadyabhyah dharyabhyah arnavaya
samudraya sariraya...
Yv 22.25
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