Pioneers of different avenues of study that originated in Ancient India.

India is the land of many jewel sons and with great heritage and culture. Many great sons of India have shown the world the different avenues of social development on which modern society bank upon. Many Indian great sons were the pioneer of their field of work, on which the world has started working far later than the great son of India, started working, and put the stepping stone.

The world has acknowledged them and considers them the father of the subject on which they worked and put their first thought. Few of their name and their works are been taught our academics. Let's know these great people and their work altogether.

1. The Father of Astronomy is Aryabhatta. His work is known as Aryabhattiyam.

2. The Father of Astrology is Varahamihira. His work is known as Panchasiddhantika and Bruhat Hora Shastra.

3. The Father of Surgery is Charaka and Sushruta. His work is known as Samhitas.

4. The Father of Anatomy is Patanjali. His work is known as Yogasutra.

5. The Father of Yoga is Patanjali. His work is known as Yogasutra.

6. The Father of Economics is Chanakya. His work is known as Arthashshtra.

7. The Father of Atomic Theory is Rishi Kanada. His work is known as Kanada sutras.

8. The Father of Architecture: Vishwakarma.

9. The Father of Aero Dynamics is Mayasura. His work is known as Vastu Darpana.

10. The Father of Medicine is Dhanvanthri. He first propounded Ayurveda.

11. The Father of Grammar is Panini. His work is known as Vyakarana Deepika.

12. The Father of Natyashastra is Bharatamuni. His work is known as Natyashastra

13. The Father of Kavya (literature) is Krishna Dwaipayana Veda Vyasa. His works are known as Mahabharata, Ashtaadasha Puranas.

14. The Father of Playwriting is Kalidasa. His works are Meghadhootam, Raghuvamsham, Kumara Sambhava, etc, etc.

15. The Father of Ganita is Bhaskara II. His work is known as Lilavati.

16. The Father of Warfare and Weaponry: Parashurama. His works: are known as Kalarippayattu and Sulba Sutras.

17. The Father of story writing is Vishnu Sharma. His work is known as Panchatantra.

18. The Father of Politics is Chanakya. His works are known as Arthashashtra and Nitishashtra.

19. The Father of Sexual Anatomy is Vatsyana. His works are known as Kamasutra.

20. The Father of Philosophy is Sri Krishna. His work is known as Sribhagavadgeete.

21. The Father of Advaitha is Shankara. His works are known as commentaries (Bhashyas), Panchadasi, and Vivekachudamani.

22. The Father of Alchemy is Nagarjuna. His work is known as Pragnaparamita Sutras.

The above list is just the tip of an iceberg. Let us take pride in sharing and educating our new generations and the world that, what our ancestors did. Yet our ancestors bowed down to the world with their attitude of greatness and humbleness.

Subroneel Saha is high in life. He enjoys life and believes to savour everything by doing along the path with passion, which he considers to be the most important part of the experience. He is a prolific writer on history, mythology, sacred lore, legends, folklore, fables and parables, and for challenging willful misinterpretations of ancient Indian and world scriptures, stories, symbols, and rituals. He intents to break the dogma and reveal the intentional part of every myth and the story, with the relevance with business, management, social life, student life.

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