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00:00The ancient Indian texts mention beautifully decorated chariots or entire palaces called
00:06vimanas that could take off and, in a matter of seconds, fly away as far as space.
00:13Some people believe these vimanas only existed in Indian mythology, but it's also possible
00:19that they were based on a real technology that had been lost over the centuries.
00:24According to the Vedas, ancient Indian religious texts, there was the elephant vimana with
00:29several engines and many other types named after animals and birds.
00:34There was one for local travel, one for visiting different countries, and one for traveling
00:39to the moon and various planets.
00:41They could develop a great speed.
00:43One vimana had the superpower of invisibility.
00:47Another one was shaped like a sphere and was built on the winds produced by Mercury.
00:52This vimana was said to generate an enormous ray like the sun and make noise like the storm's
00:58thunder.
00:59All of the vimanas were unbreakable and perfect for attacks on foes.
01:04To operate a vimana, you'd need to know a lot of stuff, pretty much like today's
01:08airplane pilots – 32 secrets in total.
01:12They'd cover the aircraft's structure and the secrets of taking off and maneuvering
01:16without crashing.
01:17That's a good thing.
01:19The pilot was also expected to know how to be seen and unseen, how to be hidden, how
01:25to be quick, how to manage contractions and expansion, and many other tricks.
01:30To hide the flying machine from foes, the pilot was instructed to move to the 8th atmospheric
01:36layer above the Earth and use the power of dark solar rays.
01:41This instruction might sound a bit weird, but there were others, more realistic ones,
01:45which still make sense in modern aeronautics.
01:49There are sections of ancient texts on the vimanas that focus on details like flight
01:54paths, pilot training, navigation, and even suitable clothes for pilots and recommended
02:00food for long flights.
02:02There was also a lot of technical detail about the use of heat-absorbing metals, the metals
02:08utilized, and melting points.
02:10The supporters of the theory that the vimanas were more than just myths are sure that the
02:15ancient Indians would unlikely go into all these details just for a beautiful story.
02:21So the flying palaces might have been real and way ahead of their time, like many other
02:27great Indian inventions.
02:30Back in the 6th century BCE, an Indian physician named Shashruta basically wrote the original
02:36guide to medicine and surgery.
02:38They even called him the father of surgery for his work.
02:42Shashruta laid down the details on hundreds of medicinal plants and described complex
02:48surgical procedures.
02:49He gave instructions on nose reconstructions and skin transplants from one part of the
02:54body to another.
02:56The original method of rhinoplasty, which involved taking a piece of skin from the forehead
03:01to reconstruct the nose, is still used today.
03:04But back then, it had a slightly different purpose than surprising your followers on
03:08social media.
03:10Those nose jobs helped out folks who had lost their noses as punishment for crimes or in
03:16fights.
03:17You gotta thank an ancient Indian math prodigy for the invention of zero.
03:23It might not seem like a big deal, but without it, we would have no binary system and no
03:28computers.
03:29People before the 5th century CE were only thinking about some sort of a sign to indicate
03:35nothing.
03:36The invention made addition, subtraction, and other mathematical operations a whole
03:41lot easier.
03:42You can see the oldest zero in existence carved in the wall of a temple in Gwalior, India.
03:49The Indus Valley civilization was using rulers in 1500 BCE and earlier.
03:55Made from ivory, these rulers were found during excavations in what is present-day Pakistan
04:01and northwestern India.
04:03They were widely used in architecture with amazing accuracy.
04:07They had units corresponding to slightly over 1 inch that were marked with precise
04:11subdivisions within 5 thousandths of an inch.
04:16The next invention is more of a concept than a physical item.
04:21Standardization is all about setting the rules based on a bunch of people, things, or interests.
04:26One of its cool applications that we've all gotten used to is standard weights.
04:31Whether you're using pounds or kilograms, you need these universal measurements for
04:36weight, right?
04:37For this, we owe a big shout-out to the merchants from the Indus Valley civilization who lived
04:42around 4,000 years ago.
04:45They were measuring everything from food grains to fancy luxury goods using these standardized
04:50weights.
04:51And their weights had decimal and binary mathematical systems going on.
04:56They didn't have high-tech gear, but they pulled off some serious precision using complex
05:01calculations and even sand for construction.
05:05Their art of standardization made its way to Persia and Central Asia, basically becoming
05:10the global weight-watching standard.
05:13So if yoga is your go-to exercise, you definitely have a personal reason to appreciate the ancient
05:20Indian geniuses.
05:22Over 5,000 years ago, during the rule of the Indus-Sarasvati civilization in northern India,
05:28yoga was first mentioned in the Vedas.
05:31Yoga was refined and shaped over the centuries until it grew into a massive teaching with
05:36over 200 sacred writings dedicated to this way of obtaining enlightenment.
05:42At the beginning of the current era, yoga got a new trajectory thanks to a Hindu writer
05:47who laid down a system of yoga in his text, the Yoga Sutras.
05:52It became a whole-body rejuvenation, a life-extending practice with poses that you are still doing
05:58on the mat today.
06:00Yoga has reached the Western world only in the 19th century, and it caught on like wildfire.
06:06Chess, the all-time top game for intellectuals, is also an Indian invention.
06:12Its ancestor was called Chaturanga, and it was a strategic board game that started gaining
06:18popularity around 3,000 years before the current era.
06:22This early Indian version of chess was played by 4 people, not 2, and had 64 squares.
06:29Each player had 8 pieces, ranging from pawns to kings, bishops to knights, and there was
06:35no standard six-faced dice.
06:37They rolled with an oblong one.
06:40Players facing off were actually allies, forming two teams based on the direction they sat.
06:46Chess, that we know and love today, was first mentioned in ancient Indian literature in
06:51a legend.
06:52It's said that the wife of a villain called Ravana had invented the game to amuse him.
06:58The word shampoo comes from the Hindi word, which means to soothe or knead.
07:04The substance was invented in India in 1762 and was originally used for head massages,
07:11hence the name.
07:12The first shampoo was made of natural oils and herbs.
07:16British traders fell in love with the idea and brought it back with them to England.
07:21It took years for the original head massage oil to evolve into shampoo as we know it today,
07:26but it's still an Indian invention.
07:30Unlike the ancient Greeks, who wore animal skins, the Indians started cultivating cotton
07:35back in the 5th and 4th centuries before the current era.
07:39They used cotton threads to produce fabrics that soon became a huge hit in the Mediterranean
07:44and beyond.
07:46Jute and wool also have their origins in India.
07:49Kashmir, the finest and most exclusive type of wool, actually comes from the Kashmir region
07:55of India.
07:56Buttons that sit proudly on that Kashmir cardigan of yours also have ancient Indian origins.
08:02Some 5,000 years ago, the Indus Valley civilization started cutting seashells into geometric
08:08shapes with tiny holes in them.
08:11First they were just decorations, but then people started using them to fasten clothes.
08:17When you think about radio communication pioneers, Marconi's name usually steals the spotlight.
08:24He got a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1909 for his groundbreaking radio work.
08:30But there's an unsung hero in the radio waves game, and his name is Sir Jadish Chandra Bose.
08:36He spilled the beans on radio communication way back in 1895.
08:42He shot an electromagnetic wave across 75 feet at the town hall in Calcutta, and it
08:48went through walls, rang a bell, and even set off some gunpowder.
08:52Marconi took a page from Bose's book using his invention, the Mercury Coherer, as a blueprint
08:58for his own two-way radio.
09:01Bose didn't patent his genius creation, so he only got his credit a century later.