Known and Unknown Facts of India

• India has never invaded any country in her last 10,000 years of history.
• India invented the number system. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
• India established the world's first University at Takshasila in 700 B.C.
• Sanskrit is the mother of all European languages. It is the best suited language for computer software (Forbes magazine, July 1987).
• Ayurveda is the earliest system of medicine known to humans.
• The art of navigation originated in the river Sindh 6000 years ago. Navigation comes from the Sanskrit word "Nav Gatih".
• Bhaskaracharya calculated the time taken by earth to orbit the sun as 365.258756484 days (in 5th century A.D).
• In the 6th century A.D Budhayana calculated the value of pi . Quadratic equations were propunded by Sridharacharya in the 11th century.
• According to the Gemological Institute of America , upto 1896, India was the only source for diamonds.
• IEEE has proved an age old suspicion that the pioneer of wireless communication is Jagdish Bose and not Marconi.
• The earliest reservoir and dam was built in Saurashtra, India during Chandragupta Maurya's time (300 B.C)
• Chess originated in India.
• Susruta is known as the father of surgery, performing complex surgeries as many as 2600 years ago.