The Educational Heritage of Ancient India

The Educational Heritage of Ancient India
Author: Sahana Singh
Publisher: Notion Press
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2017-08-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 194758653X

Just a thousand years ago, India was dotted with universities across its length and breadth, where international students flocked to gain credentials in advanced education. This illustrated book describes how these multi-disciplinary centers of learning existed in several forms such as forest universities, brick-and-mortar universities and temple universities. It examines the funding for these citadels of learning and their graduation ceremonies. The process by which India’s ancient systems of education helped to fuel a knowledge revolution around the world with its manuscripts, forming the basis for monographs and academic papers, is explained with references. The marauding incursions by Muslim invaders, which disrupted the idyllic world of university learning in India, followed by European colonization, which led to further erosion and degeneration of India’s traditional learning systems, have been taken up in some detail. Readers will get a snapshot view of India's education system down the ages from ancient to modern times.

The Science of Interstellar

The Science of Interstellar
Author: Kip Thorne
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2014-11-07
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0393351386

A journey through the otherworldly science behind Christopher Nolan’s award-winning film, Interstellar, from executive producer and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Kip Thorne. Interstellar, from acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan, takes us on a fantastic voyage far beyond our solar system. Yet in The Science of Interstellar, Kip Thorne, the Nobel prize-winning physicist who assisted Nolan on the scientific aspects of Interstellar, shows us that the movie’s jaw-dropping events and stunning, never-before-attempted visuals are grounded in real science. Thorne shares his experiences working as the science adviser on the film and then moves on to the science itself. In chapters on wormholes, black holes, interstellar travel, and much more, Thorne’s scientific insights—many of them triggered during the actual scripting and shooting of Interstellar—describe the physical laws that govern our universe and the truly astounding phenomena that those laws make possible. Interstellar and all related characters and elements are trademarks of and © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (s14).

Siddhānta Nidānam

Siddhānta Nidānam
Author: Gaṇanātha Sena
Publisher:
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2004
Genre: Medicine, Ayurvedic
ISBN:

This Book Consists Of 930 Verses (Part I And Ii Together) In Sansktrit. It Deals With Aetiology, Symptomatology And Diagnosis Of Common Diseases Described In Ancient Texts Of Ayurveda Together With Some New Over Prevalent In The Present Day. In View Of Its Merits It Has Been Prescribed As A Text Book For Graduate And Post-Graduate Courses In Ayurveda Since Long.

Śrī Bhaktisiddhānta Vaibhava

Śrī Bhaktisiddhānta Vaibhava
Author: Swami Bhakti Vikāśa
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Chaitanya (Sect)
ISBN: 9788190829205

On the life and philosophy of Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati, 1874-1936 of Chaitanya (Sect), preacher of Gaudiya Vaishnavism throughout India in the late 19th and early 20th Century.