1. Sanskrit is considered the mother of all higher languages. This is because it is the most precise, and therefore the most suitable language for computer software.
2. The place value system and the decimal system were developed in 100 B.C. in India.
3. The first six Mughal Emperors of India ruled in an unbroken succession from father to son for almost 200 years, from 1526 to 1707.
4. The number system was invented by India. Aryabhatta was the scientist who invented the digit zero.
5. The world’s first granite temple is the Brihadeswara Temple at Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu. The shikara is made from a single 80-tonne piece of granite.
6. The game of snakes and ladders was created by 13th century poet saint Gyandev. The ladders in the game represented virtues and the snakes were vices. Later the game underwent several modifications but the meaning remained the same i.e. good deeds take us to heaven and evil to a cycle of rebirths.
7. Until 1896, India was the only source for diamonds to the world.
8. Bhaskaracharya rightly calculated the time taken by Earth to orbit the sun hundreds of years before the European Astronomers. His calculations were – time taken by earth to orbit the sun: 365.258756484 days.
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