{"id":14921,"date":"2016-08-06T13:10:21","date_gmt":"2016-08-06T07:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org?p=14914&amp;preview_id=14914"},"modified":"2016-08-06T13:10:21","modified_gmt":"2016-08-06T07:40:21","slug":"this-bhopal-university-will-teach-works-of-ancient-indian-seers-as-part-of-btech-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=14921","title":{"rendered":"This Bhopal University Will Teach Works Of Ancient Indian Seers As Part Of BTech Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"articleContent\" class=\"articleContent\">\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">In what could be a landmark decision by an educational institution in the country,\u00a0Atal Bihari Vajpayee Hindi University in Bhopal will soon start a curriculum that will teach the basics of technological inventions done in the ancient times, promoted by seers and sages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sw-para selectionShareable\">The curriculum will be in Hindi and students will be taught about various aspects of engineering with reference to the Vedas, the work of mathematician Bhaskaracharya and sage-scientist Acharya Kanad, reports<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scoopwhoop.com\/rd?url=http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/nation-newspaper\/bhopal-engineering-students-to-trace-roots-of-science-in-vedas\/story-BxTajVzq7cURqtDMkxDG5J.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"> Hindustan Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"sw-media medium-insert-images sw-para\">\n<div style=\"width: 852px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.scoopwhoop.com\/anj\/ABV12\/516957313.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.scoopwhoop.com\/anj\/ABV12\/516957313.jpg\" width=\"842\" height=\"595\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: University website<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"sw-para selectionShareable\">\u201cWhenever we talk about our rich legacy of Hindu <i>rishis<\/i> and <i>munis<\/i>, people oppose it. But it is a fact that Indian seers came out with many inventions in engineering, medical science and astronomy thousands of years ago,\u201d vice-chancellor Mohan Lal Chhipa told the newspaper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sw-para selectionShareable\">Apart from Vedas, it will also include earliest scriptures of Hinduism, works of sage Bhrigu\u2019s <i>Shilp Samhita<\/i> on engineering science and metallurgy, the <i>Narad Shilp Shastra<\/i> on arts and crafts, and <i>Charaka Samhita,<\/i> the report adds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sw-para selectionShareable\">University sources told HT that the curriculum has been designed to promote Indian science and culture, which is mostly influenced by western science.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sw-para selectionShareable\"><b>The programme will be added into the syllabus as a subject, named as Bharatiya Gyan aur Parampara (Indian knowledge and tradition). Students will be introduced to the subject this academic session but no examination will be conducted for it.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"sw-para selectionShareable\">Some experts have criticised the programme calling it a mode of promoting Hinduism, not engineering.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what could be a landmark decision by an educational institution in the country,\u00a0Atal Bihari Vajpayee Hindi University in Bhopal will soon start a curriculum that will teach the basics of technological inventions done in the ancient times, promoted by seers and sages. The curriculum will be in Hindi and students will be taught about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1153,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14921"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}