05-07-2006, 09:45 PM
i think you are largely correct - specifically in 2 aspects
1) almost everything in india is dressed up in religious/spiritual terms. from purans- supposed to be a history text to kama sutra - on an entirely different subject, everything has some or the other religious/spiritual twist or connotation.
2) we did have records and texts explaining scientific achievements - but what was a scientific text of that day, cant be considered scientific enough today. in the west the scientific progress and thought has been a continuous process - but with us it all stopped circa 1000 AD thanks to the arrival of camel jockeys. so suddenly looking back from todays standards - whcih we have learn from the west, to our own ancient scientific standards, neither we nor westerners consider those to be scientific enough. exceptions being sutras and shastras in math.
1) almost everything in india is dressed up in religious/spiritual terms. from purans- supposed to be a history text to kama sutra - on an entirely different subject, everything has some or the other religious/spiritual twist or connotation.
2) we did have records and texts explaining scientific achievements - but what was a scientific text of that day, cant be considered scientific enough today. in the west the scientific progress and thought has been a continuous process - but with us it all stopped circa 1000 AD thanks to the arrival of camel jockeys. so suddenly looking back from todays standards - whcih we have learn from the west, to our own ancient scientific standards, neither we nor westerners consider those to be scientific enough. exceptions being sutras and shastras in math.