Sangam IKS Series | History of Indian Science - Astronomy | Dr. Raj Vedam | #SangamTalks

About the talk:
To understand the antiquity of Indian Civilization it is extremely important to understand the
narrative imposed on Historiography - the Colonial, Euro-centric, Missionaries, Socialist Academia bias, Marxist effect. In this talk, the speaker highlights several fascinating facts about ancient Indian astronomy, bringing to fore the deliberate distortions injected by Western agencies.
Over many thousands of years, the brilliant celestial nightly displays over the unpolluted dark skies of ancient India led to astronomy becoming an integral part of the rhythm of life, paralleling the cosmic cycles, as ancient Indians sought to make sense of the skies, leading to building up of an enormous corpus of astronomy knowledge.

About the Speaker:
Raj Vedam holds a doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering with many years of multi-disciplinary experience, and has developed a strong research interest in the history of sciences, mathematics and technology. His research shows unacknowledged but significant contributions of ancient Indians to sciences and math, impacting several civilizations over different periods of time. While Western texts on the subject enforce a parochial narrative sourcing all sciences and math from ancient Greece or Rome or Egypt, Raj Vedam presents contrary facts and evidence to show their indebtedness to the Indian civilization. He has presented his findings in over 200 public talks, several teacher training workshops, several research publications, and offers two courses on the same at Hindu University of America.

Topics Covered:
0:00 Impact of the Narrative on Knowledge systems
4:30 The colonial and missionaries effect
11:30 Astronomy and Mathematics came to India from Babylon?
18:40 Rebuttal to forced Histrocity
22:50 Sources and Texta of Indian ancient Astronomy
27:17 Indian astronomy's antiquity
32:00 What does story of Chandra and Daksha's daughters mean?
37:00 The Wheel of time - Indian Astronomy
40:00 Marking the Panchanga
44:24 The colonial and missionaries effect
49:00 Rishi Atri using Turya device
53:00 Lunar occultation and Comets
56:00 Celestial Co-ordinate Systems
1:01:52 Evidence of use of Mathematics for Astronomy
1:05:00 Planets in ancient Indian studies
1:07:20 Mean Motion of planets
1:13:00 Astronomers and Mathematicians of ancient India
1:17:00 Vedang Jyotisha
1:20:14 Encoded Epochs - Surya Siddhanta
1:24:40 Aditi and Diti - the twin stars

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[santamaranikita]

India you are the Mother of the entire humanity and we are so grateful to you from the deepest of our heart..

[vijaysinghlodhi]

Mr.Raj Vedam Ji your are hard working prudent person to stabilized the Indian Indic knowledge in the whole world which is the factual, scientifical, practical logical, reasonable and Dharmik in nature which preserved in old written the Indian Sanatan Dharmik Vedas, Puranas, Upanishads, Shastras and Itihasas.

[anuradhaarun]

Respect, respect & respect for you Aarya 🙏🙏🙏
Your boldness & clarity in talk clearly comes from your immense knowledge 👍

[dhrumil_]

Dr. Raj vedam is probably one of the best speakers we have in india right now.

[amarnarsima]

This man comes up with impeccable research!

[xxgreenland]

Hinduism 🕉️ is the oldest and greatest religion in the world. I just convert to Hinduism 🕉️ and i love 💕 it so much, it is really a great religion and teaching.❤❤❤❤.

[premakau]

Woderful basic and simple theories of astro science ..

[amrithkumar]

An exhaustive information. By sangam talk makes me proud about us. Can we bring these back into play with the present Govt.

[Immortal_lion]

Thank you Prof. Raj Vedam for this amazing video. It was highly informative.

[vkghai]

I felt greatly enlightened by your lecture dear Dr Vedam.

[BENDRE]

Simply wow. Please bring to light our ancient knowledge to the world

[arunkumarshukla]

You are great...Mr. Vedam...your parents must be proud on you....thank you very much for your research

[tejashwinim]

Thank you so much for uploading this video... I hope these will taught in schools in future.

[chandrashekharholla]

Swagatam. Very good approach. Dhanyavadagalu. Namaskaram.

[phanitejp]

Gurukuala system might teach like you Dr Raj .full enlightenment of the subject and deep understand the concept without forgetting how our ancient times scholars embedded metaphor inthe form of entertainment story.🎉 You are Real SME of IKS. Great honour &luck to listen your research & findings .
Jai Bharat. We are blessed 🙏.
Thanks and keep doing it sir.

[chandrashekharholla]

Very good presentation. Nice. Dhanyavadagalu.

[hyderabadildarshiv]

🙏 perulone vedaanni kaligi vunna Raj sir🙏,
Chala baga vivarinchi chepparu,
Dhanyavadhaalu

[samskarebyaha]

Great to have this talk. It needs to be made into several short videos on specific topics.

[NehalRishi.]

What an amazing lecture !
Thankyou for uploading !

[ppzoide]

excellent talk. I was hoping to add the fact about Rohini being the favorite wife after earing the part about Chandra and Daksha daughters but later you masterfully explain it! 👏