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Vedas in multi-media CDs
The vedas are an eternal bonanza for entire humankind. The great sages of the distant past, who could envison all sorts of orchestration of a variety of forces and the resultant manifestation of various phenomena in the vast expanse of cosmos, delved deep into the bountiful knowldge contained in the Vedas. With their exalted wisdom they were able to decipher the infinite concepts and derived the underlying principles systematically. Thus resulted the codification and organisation of the wholegamut of the Vedas under four heads and each of them contained hundreds of branches. The availability of enough proof in ancient literature bears ample testimony to the argument. For example, the algebric formula a+b raised to the power of 2 = a square + b square + 2ab finds mention in one of the works by Pingal Rishi of 800 B.C. along with a statement that it was only a part of his effort compiling the available knowledge by then. ''Vedas are a treasure trove, not only of mathematical solutions but also of all basic sciences which we are aware of today and even otherwise, including technologies,'' elaborated Remalla Avadhani, a nuclear chemist, computer wizard and architect of Veda Bharathi Institute at Hyderabad. Avadhani was in the port city recently and a few like-minded persons organised a meet with him at which he delivered a demonstrative talk on the subject.''These ancient scriptures comprised more than a 1,000 branches but unfortunately we have only one per cent of it today. Even that much is available because of the oral learning in the gurukula tradition and the guru parampara today fortunately is not extinct. Veda Bharathi has started a project of collecting and protecting all available Vedic material with the blessings of all the Sankaracharyas, the President and the Prime Minister,'' Avadhani said.The work of conserving the material on multi-media CDs has already started. The disks give each verse with diacritical or swara signs, audio version recited by Vedic scholars, pictorial version through specially created animated graphics and the relevant meaning in English and Telugu as well by authentic scholars. A user-friendly index is provided to choose any verse based on five common parameters. This monumental work involves a huge cost and the Veda Bharathi could so far record only about 10 per cent of the targetted 2000 hours.Efforts are afoot to derive an easy methodology to decipher the scientific and technological knowledge embedded in the Vedas. Though the main thrust of the Vedas is on the spiritual front, they contain plenty of descriptions of physical life, including basic concepts of modern mathematics, physics, chemistry, life sciences, astronomy, aeronautics and even computer sciences. The interesting information on the subject can be obtained by accessing www.shrivedabharathi.org#The Sanskrit scholar, Appala Someswara Sarma who presided over the meeting, rightly said that while Sanskrit and Vedic scholars were ignorant of modern developments in science and technology, scientists and technocrats were ignorant of vedic knowledge. ''Vede Sarvam Prathistitham'', as the saying goes, it is indeed necessary that many knowledgeable persons like Avadhani should take up such projects.
A.R.S
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