Hindu nationalists have long propagated their belief that many discoveries of modern science and technology were known to the people of ancient India. But now for the first time an Indian prime minister has endorsed these claims, maintaining that cosmetic surgery and reproductive genetics were practiced thousands of years ago.

As proof, Narendra Modi gave the examples of the warrior Karna from the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata and of the elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesha.

“We can feel proud of what our country achieved in medical science at one point of time,” the prime minister told a gathering of doctors and other professionals at a hospital in Mumbai on Saturday. “We all read about Karna in the Mahabharata. If we think a little more, we realise that the Mahabharata says Karna was not born from his mother’s womb. This means that genetic science was present at that time. That is why Karna could be born outside his mother’s womb.”

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/28/indian-prime-minister-genetic-science-existed-ancient-times




 

तै खाते हरुले संस्कारित भाषालाई पेवा बनाएर मेवा मा परिवर्तन गर्न पछि परेनन् | तेरै अघिल्लो पुस्ता हो संस्कारिताभासामा जे लेखिदिए पनि शास्त्र हुने : ब्राम्ह बाक्य नै शास्त्र हो भन्न पछि परेनन् | येही संस्कारिता भाषा बाटै जात पात को र छुवाछुतको कुरा उठाई सानो र ठुलो बनायौ | बिरालोले आची लुकाए झैँ एकल जातिको बनाउन पछि परेनौ : सुद्रले पढ्न र छुन पनि नहुने बानायौ |

यही संस्कारित भाषामा लेखिएको एउटा श्लोक यो पनि छ |

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कार्यकाले समुत्पन्ने नसाबिध्या नातात्धमं |

हाजारौ बर्ष सर्बसाधारंलाई अन्द्यारोमा राखी खाने मेलो बनायौ : अब आएर यो रहेछ भन्छौ |

अहिले आएर भारतीय प्रधान मन्त्रि ले भन्नु पर्यो के के छ भनेर ? कता गए ति सबै संस्कृतका विद्वान ?

का बाट आज टास्न पुगिस यो कुरा ? तेरो धर्मको बिपरित भएन ?

Is this also valid STEM degree?