INDIA`s(to me-, Bharat) PAST GLORY - DOWN-FALL AND AFTERMATH :
A great Nation`s down - fall begins when it forgets its own glorious past and starts `copy-cat-ing` the Invaders,- both Colonial or Economic. I shall rather take the help of sage `s opinion rather than inserting my own borrowed knowledge.The following is the extract of lecture of Swami Vivekananda at Brooklyn Standard Union, Feb,-27 ( Complete works of Swami Vivekananda Vol -II ; ADVAITA ASHRAMA :5 DEHI ENTALLY ROAD ; Calcutta - 7oo-014 ; !4th Edition 1983))
1. India , -where stood the earliest craddle of Ethics, Arts & Science
2. There is more evidence that Christianity is founded on Buddhism.....we find it in inscriptions from the reign of ASHOKA (300B.C) *[ASHOKA was declared the greatest of all Kings ever and anywhere , - by H. G . Wells]
3. According to Sir Willium Hunter,India has even contributed to Modern Mediacal Science
4. Algebra,geometry, Astronomy and triumph of mixed Mathematics (Zero & Decimals) were all invented in India (Bharat).*{With Roman Arithmatic , Modern science would even to day be a Crawling -baby -Science.]
5. In Philosophy India is , even now ,ahead of any other Nations ( ask -Schopenhauer or C. J YUNG). In Music seven cardinal notes and the diatonic scale was there in India(Bharat)in 350 B.c.
6 India has given the World the Fables of Aesop(from a Sanskrit book). India is the first to make cotton & purple dye .`Sugar` it self is a `first ` product from India.
7. India invented the game of Chess {Of course we ,now , crazy , mad anrd excited to `copy- cat ` other game that is Colonial e.g Cricket and every mimicry like `Bolly-wood`}So great was the past that even Columbus mis-took a great Continent ,AMERIKA ,as `India` and named the inhabitant `Red-Indians`.
When a Nation forgets its own Culture , know ,-the time of its `Fall` Has begun !
{this is an edited and compressed version with,sometimes, my opinion) for further information read `History of the Indian Empire` -by Sir Willium Hunter.}