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Oct 27, 2017 29 tweets 6 min read Read on X
Once upon a time, long before the British, we had our own Vedic system of time keeping. We had 30 muhurtas in a day. Life was quicker paced, organized and more efficient. Each muhurta had a name too. #missingVedicTimes
How did the Vedic people measure the muhurta? How was it standardized across the Vedic civilization to prevent regional asynchrony?
By the use of Clepsydras(water clocks) until Vedic mathematics and astronomy was rigorous enough to arrive at horological constants independently.

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Oct 9, 2018
I know he's an ardhadeva to many. And what I am doing will be treated as no less than blasphemy

But I am now obliged to do this

Take a look at the Mongol. Then look at the face in the circle, the person whose device clicked the screenshot

A careless mistake of a double handler
One of the handles is carefully maintained. Clean, respectable, sticking to posting rules, civil in words and gentlemanly in conduct.

Recipe for a lot of stress if you are hiding your true thoughts, opinions and agenda

That's where the second handle comes in. And boy is it ugly
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I had a altercation which I politely offered to close. But the 2nd & maybe a 3rd handle was unleashed at me.
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Sep 28, 2018
There were two great observatories in ancient India

Ujjain- Where the brightest minds gathered. Aryabhata, Brahmagupta, Bhaskara I & II, Vateshwara, all worked here

Mahodayapuram-Designed by Sankaranarayan~860AD, it boasted of many named instruments

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The Avanti observatory was the single most important institution in the history of science.

Everything from the first trigonometric tables to heliocentric periods to principles of latitude & longitude determination came from here.

The zero degree meridian passed though Ujjain.
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Soon Arabs & Europeans acquired the techniques. Ujjain was destroyed and forgotten.

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May 27, 2018
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Where exactly though?
One day, when ALL the data is out- From South Asia!
biorxiv.org/content/early/…
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Feb 24, 2018
I am extremely disappointed that that this usually reasonable handle posts such shallow, ridiculously wrong and outdated opinions such as "No horse in Harappa-so Harappa is not Vedic''.
Is it just reactionary to the recent rakhigarhi paper which portends significant changes?
Those who continue in the Muellerian fashion to ignore EVERY inconvenient evidence need to answer one question- How many horse bones have you found in 1500 BC India when you would agree that India was-at last, finally- Vedic? Surely there must be bones everywhere you dig!
"Absence of evidence does NOT equal evidence of absence"- An archaeologist once advised.
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Sir William Jones(1746 –1794)
Because- "Yatha Guru Tatha Shishya !"
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"I will not accept that anything is older than flood of Noah!
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