Unknown to most Western psychologists, ancient Indian scriptures contain very rich, empirically derived psychological theories that are, however, intertwined with religious and philosophical content. This article represents our attempt to extract the psychological theory of cognition and consciousness from a prominent ancient Indian thought system: Samkhya-Yoga. We derive rather broad hypothese...

This paper contains some valid interpretations of the surgical explanations of the disease Cancer in terms of such relative diseases in Ayurveda. This is a result of a critical observation of the Susruta Samhita, followed by the translation of this authentic text of ancient Indian Surgery done by the author and his colleagues.

The author probes in this study the maternity or obsterics and gynaecology in Ancient Indian medicine by interpreting various classical texts in Ayurveda, Sociology and Religion.

B.K.Matilal, and earlier J.F.Staal, have suggested a reading of the ‘Nyāya five limb schema’ (also sometimes referred to as the Indian Schema or Hindu Syllogism) from Gotama’s Nyāya-Sūtra in terms of a binary occurrence relation. In this paper we provide a rational justification of a version of this reading as Analogical Reasoning within the framework of Polyadic Pure Inductive Logic.

A major part of the body of mathematical knowledge from the Vedic period that has come down to us is from the Śulvasūtras. The Śulvasūtras are compositions aimed at providing instruction on the principles involved and procedures of construction of the vedis (altars) and agnis (fireplaces) for the performance of the yajnas, which were a key feature of the Vedic culture. The fireplaces were const...

We report the resolution of a long-standing controversy related to the dating of ancient Indian astronomical texts and literature. We show that the Brāhman. as, which are post-Vedic texts, cannot be later than the second millennium B.C. This means that the chronology of the Indian texts is close to the traditional dates. We sketch the stages of the earliest Indian astronomy.