Sanskrit and Scientific Knowledge Traditions
Sanskrit and Scientific Knowledge Traditions Mamta Ersangappa Kotali (Mentee) Dr Pratima Mishra Associate Professor (Mentor) H. G. M. Azam College of Education Dr P. A. Inamdar University, Pune, Maharashtra, India Sanskrit and Scientific Knowledge Traditions: Where Ancient Verses Meet Modern Science: How India’s ancient language preserved the world’s first scientific revolution For most of the world, Sanskrit is a language of prayer. A chant heard in temples, a verse from the Bhagavad Gita. But for more than two thousand years, it was something far more radical: the operating system of science. Long before journals and laboratories, Indian thinkers used Sanskrit not just to describe the world, but to compress it — into sutras so precise they could be memorized, transmitted orally for centuries, and still reconstruct entire fields of knowledge without error. It was an oral GitHub for human understanding....