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Care to eloborate? //A very substantive portion of Sanskrit literature, if not the majority, deals with non-religious topics such as linguistics, logic, poetic

Care to eloborate? //A very substantive portion of Sanskrit literature, if not the majority, deals with non-religious topics such as linguistics, logic, poetics, astronomy, rhetoric, mineralogy, statecraft, geography, and more.// and more source would be nice? The main reason its not is because none of the literature was for the common man. The sankrit literatures have always been for the elites. It is still considered a sin for millioins of Indians to even read a sanskrit text. None of the pseudo-sceintific bs counts. Stop saying they had the science in them. Its okay to accept our ancestors were stupid instead of tring to glorify all the pseudo scientific non-sense i.e flying vehicles, cure for cancer. Gimme a break dude.

KhoomeiK 5y ago
Linguistics: Astadhyayi of Panini, the first generative grammar and arguably kickstarted the Western structural linguistic tradition via Saussure Logic: Navya Nyāya developed formal logical approaches and proof paradigms 600 years before the West Poetics: Pingala mathematically defined poetic meters with combinatorics (DeBruijn Sequences, Pascals triangle, etc) over 2000 years ago and the Sanskrit poetic tradition is widely recognized as one of the most aesthetically sophisticated. Check out the Sisupala Vadha of Magha for crazy poetry stuff. Astronomy: Gupta-era astronomers developed the base 10 positional numeral system to make calculations easier, and as a result, Indian calendar systems have accounted for the precession of the Earth for over a thousand years Rhetoric: the Nyāya school developed a formal theory of debate that was used in intellectual circles across the subcontinent for centuries. It enabled debaters to identify argumentative strategies and logical fallacies. Mineralogy and Geography: there's a lot of Puranic literature about this but I'm personally not too familiar Statecraft: Kautilya's Arthasastra is the most famous example but there are countless other treatises over the ages discussing politics and warfare Each of these examples I gave are but a small sample of the work done by Sanskrit intellectuals over the past few millennia. Don't blame your ancestors for your own ignorance.

KhoomeiK 5y ago

Linguistics: Astadhyayi of Panini, the first generative grammar and arguably kickstarted the Western structural linguistic tradition via Saussure Logic: Navya Nyāya developed formal logical approaches and proof paradigms 600 years before the West Poetics: Pingala mathematically defined poetic meters with combinatorics (DeBruijn Sequences, Pascals triangle, etc) over 2000 years ago and the Sanskrit poetic tradition is widely recognized as one of the most aesthetically sophisticated. Check out the Sisupala Vadha of Magha for crazy poetry stuff. Astronomy: Gupta-era astronomers developed the base 10 positional numeral system to make calculations easier, and as a result, Indian calendar systems have accounted for the precession of the Earth for over a thousand years Rhetoric: the Nyāya school developed a formal theory of debate that was used in intellectual circles across the subcontinent for centuries. It enabled debaters to identify argumentative strategies and logical fallacies. Mineralogy and Geography: there's a lot of Puranic literature about this but I'm personally not too familiar Statecraft: Kautilya's Arthasastra is the most famous example but there are countless other treatises over the ages discussing politics and warfare Each of these examples I gave are but a small sample of the work done by Sanskrit intellectuals over the past few millennia. Don't blame your ancestors for your own ignorance.