Jaipur: Rajasthan governor Haribhau Kisanrao Bagde claimed on Wednesday that the Vedic texts had mentioned the theory of gravity long before Isaac Newton discovered it in 1687.
Haribhau Kisanrao Bagde, addressing the convocation ceremony of the Indira Gandhi National Open University’s Regional Centre in Jaipur, said that ‘India has been the best in the world in the tradition of knowledge. India gave the decimal system to the whole world’.
While claiming that several inventions including electricity and airplanes were mentioned in India’s historical tests, Bagde said: ‘Newton told the world about the theory of gravity much later. In India, this was mentioned in Vedic texts long ago,’
He also claimed that NASA had a written a letter 50 years ago seeking a book by Maharshi Bhardwaj mentioning airplanes.
The British he said tried to suppress Indian knowledge hence ‘it is important to increase the intellectual capacity of the students of the country and connect them with Indian knowledge and science’.
Students all over the world, Bagde said, used to study at Nalanda University and Taxila University where Sanskrit was the only language.
Nalanda he said was destroyed by Bakhtiyar Khilji, adding that ‘Nalanda is being set up with a fresh hope and will become the way it was before’.
The Governor advised the students that there was no ‘shortcut’ for studies and urged students to study books not only related to syllabus but about life and new changes.
‘This will increase their intellectual capacity and they will be able to succeed in life,’ he was quoted as saying.