Rediscovering Indian wisdom: historical perspectives and upcoming global advances
Indian culture has placed a great value on knowledge, as evidenced by its astoundingly massive corpus of intellectual writings, the largest manuscript collection in the world, and its documented heritage of texts, thinkers, and schools covering a wide range of subject areas.According to Lord Krishna, knowledge is the greatest liberator and purifier of the self (Srimad Bhagavad Gita, 4.33, 37,38.Knowledge has been at the core of all research in India since the Vedas (Upanishads) and Sri Aurobindo, and the country's knowledge tradition is as old and unbroken as the Ganga River.The Mundakopanisad separates all of structured knowledge into two categories: knowledge of the ultimate principle, paramatma or Brahman, or the metaphysical realm, and knowledge that is secondary to one's understanding of aksara-Brahman, or worldly knowledge. Jnana and Vijnana or the knowledge of facts of the observable world was so distinguished.Knowledge from many fields has been organized over time into disciplines, or vidya, and crafts, or kala.Philosophy, architecture, grammar, mathematics, astronomy, metrics, sociology, economics and politics, ethics, geography, logic, military science, weapons, agriculture, mining, trade and commerce, metallurgy, mining, shipbuilding, medicine, poetics, biology, and veterinary science are just a few of the diverse fields that are part of Indian disciplinary formations.Despite the extensive loss and historically documented destruction, a continuous and cumulative set of texts is available in each of them. The Present Paper would like to explore about rediscovering Indian knowledge wisdom with its historical perspective and upcoming global advances
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2025-04-30
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15735669
- Primary Topic
- Science and Climate Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00