मह्यम् dārśansūtra

Invention of calculus is generally considered as beginning of scientific revolution. Newton and Leibniz faught each other for credit of calculus which actually belongs to kerala school of mathematics and astronomy India has always been known for advancements in science and mathematics, rightly so. India's wealth derived mainly from trade and agriculture which required good astronomy, navigation and trigonometry which led to advancements in maths.  This should not surprise you that CALCULUS and infinite series have their origin in India. Today calculus and many other indian works are wrongly credited to European scholars.  These indian works reached to europeans through Jesuits who had a centre for mass translation of indian manuscripts in cochin college. Be it sine series [credited to Newton] or alleged "Leibniz" series [credited to Leibniz] both were indian works. In 1581 letters, Ricci explicitly aknowledged that he was trying to understand local methods of ...

India has rich traditions of shastrarth and intellectual debates on philosophy among the people of different schools or with the antagonistic sects. One of them is famous shastrarth between adi Shankaracharya and Maṇḍana Miśra. Adi Shankaracharya Adi Shankaracharya was born in kalady, Kerala. lord Shiva who offered his parents the option of a son who would be great and depart this world at 32 or a son who would lead a normal life for a long time.  Maṇḍana Miśra He was follower of the karma Mimansa school of philosophy.Ubhaya Bharati was wife of Maṇḍana Miśra. He became a sannyasin and an advaitin after he was defeated by Shankara in a debate.                                       ( image credit jagran ) Shankara initially sought out Kumarila Bhatta, who was leading exponent of Purva Mimansa to debate the relative merits and demerits of their philosophies. B...