Indian Calenders and Mathematics

There are six main calenders in the world. They are as from east, Chinese, Indian, Persian, Arab Jews and the Roman which is know as Gregorian. Indian kaliyuga calender is 5108 years old as at 2008 and the calender works perfectly with modern science.

Indian mathematician Varahamira perfected Indian calender as 365.25875 days in a year which is 365.2536 days in a year.

Tamilans celebrate Aadi 18( Aadi peruku) which fells on the 18th day aadi month is a day Kannagi burnt Madurai and on that day, in Cauvery Pum Pattinam, the highest tide of the year will occur.

Every thing works perfectly. So well calculated.

Aryabatha discovered "pi" which India's present to the world. Indians discovered sine formular in trigonometry which led to the discovery of cosine and tangent.

There are lot of contributions by Indians to science and mathematics which the present generation is ignorant.

In order to give intelectual confidence to our students these information must be brought to the knowledge of our Indian students.

Arab learnt the mathematics from Indians and passed the same to the Western world.