Did You Know, by Aswathi Sreedharan
Interesting facts about Hinduism and Bharat:
Did Vasco da Gama discover the sea-route to India?
Plastic Surgery: A Gift from India
Did Vasco da Gama discover the sea-route to India?
It is commonly believed that Vasco da Gama discovered the sea route to India. However, Suresh Soni, contradicts this belief in his India’s Glorious Scientific Tradition.
In his diary, Vasco da Gama describes how he followed the ship of a Gujarati trader named Chandan whom he met at the coast of Zanzibar in Africa. The Gujarati trader had a ship three times the size of Vasco da Gama’s. This reveals not only India’s advanced ship-building, but also that the route Vasco da Gama took was already in existence and was routinely used by Indian merchants.
Plastic Surgery: A Gift from India
Sushruta, also the first surgeon of the world, in Sushruta Samhita, describes how surgery can be performed. Training in surgery existed even during the Vedic times through the guru-shishya tradition. Sushrutha describes 8 types of surgeries. The most common plastic surgery was the replacement of noses, lost quite commonly during wars, using skin from forehead.
Aswathi recently graduated from University of California, Irvine, with degrees in Biomedical Engineering and International Studies. Her interests include classical dancing, yoga, and Samskritam. You can contact her at a5swathi@gmail.com.
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June 9th, 2009 14:07
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September 16th, 2010 05:16
Vasco da Gamas sea route to india was indeed with indian merchants help , even 3 merchants were on his ship,to show him the route,
In 1998 I met some portuguese men and some americans ,they were on a mission to shoot a film(,On The horizon) the 500 th anniversery of gamas landing
They asked me Gama visited a temple and paid some offerings , where is that temple, The temple was Puthoor kali temple in calicut/ This was from his diary/
The production team was from america/marie nostrum productions