Vedas and Computers (Computer Science in Vedas)

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The seers and sages of this holy land sacrificed their lives and passed on to us the Vedas and Sastras, which constitute the invaluable treasure of eternal knowledge, useful for both the temporal and spiritual worlds. The four Vedas were known to have more than 1,131 branches before foreign invasions of India. But today only 13 branches are traceable, i.e., about 1% of Vedic literature only is available. Even these branches in their residual form are radiating information on all aspects, including modern science and technology.

Several scholars of western hemisphere admired the advances made by India based on Vedas in ancient times. Their unbiased remarks and the scientific works of Indian scientists have stirred the souls of many to just peep into the ancient science. Almost at the same time, Shri Veda Bharathi, a Public Charitable Trust, Hyderabad, striving for preservation and propagation of Vedic knowledge has given great encouragement and support for studying the Vedic sciences from a modern view point.

There is a description of the process of speech in the siksa of Panini. One forms a clear idea about certain things in his intellect, Buddhi, then a desire to express the same is created in the mind, Manas; the mind stirs the fire, the electricity like power in the body which in its turn activates the air breath. Moving within the chest it dashes against the head, takes a downward turn, reaches different places of articulation and produces different sounds called letters. This is a process involved in the utterance of each letter which, though consisting of so many actions does not take even one millionth of a second. Such is the imperceptible extraordinary power of the human mind working in tune with the vital energy contained in the body. Man has transferred, as it were, this power of his mind to the Computer, retaining of course, the power of giving commands, perhaps for the present, with himself. The Computer receives the information as per the commands of the man, retains it and goes. on giving it back.

In India, a systematic analysis of Sanskrit language, in every possible aspect, which was not even thought of in other Countries of the world till very recent times was done in Sastras like Mimamsa, Vyakarana and Nyaya long before the beginning of the Christian era. Mimamsa which is known as the Vakya Sastra, a science mainly concerned with the interpretation of sentences has laid down some rules which help us in understanding the ideas intended to be conveyed by a sentence. Taking predication of an action as the main purpose of a sentence, it is maintained by the Mimamsakas that there are three types of Vidhis Utpatti Vidhi, Niyamavidhi and Parisankhya Vidhi. They also talk of six principles like Sruti, Linga, etc, which are helpful in determining the purport of a sentence, each one of them having its superiority over and inferiority to others.

The Indian tradition regards the Vedas as the source of all knowledge. They are scriptures that are self- revealed to Rishis of great insight who touch upon the ultimate truth in a unique way through the mantras. They are found to contain thoughts or every subject of importance like philosophy, religion, culture and science.

The beautiful edifice of the Vedas reached its pinnacle of glory at the time of Sage Veda Vyasa. The Vedas were broadly classified by him as Rigveda, Yajurveda, Samaveda and Atharvaveda. These Vedas were further expanded into more than a thousand branches which were the source of knowledge for several centuries. It is to his credit that he evolved a systematic methodology for protection of Vedas from generation to generation.

Though the main thrust of the Vedas is on the spiritual front, they contain plenty of information about the temporal world. Within the broad description of Yajna, Moksha etc., many basic concepts of modern Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Life sciences, Astronomy, Aeronautics etc., were found embedded in them. In addition, the Ayurveda dealing with health Science, Sthapatya veda dealing with civil constructions etc., have detailed descriptions of the worldly subjects.