Do u Know about India (1)?

• The name `India’ is derived from the River Indus, the valleys around which were the home of the early settlers. The Aryan worshippers referred to the river Indus as the Sindhu.

 

• The Persian invaders converted it into Hindu. The name ‘Hindustan‘ combines Sindhu and Hindu and thus refers to the land of the Hindus.

 

• The number system was invented by India. Aryabhatta was the scientist who invented the digit zero.

 

• Sanskrit is considered as the mother of all higher languages. This is because it is the most precise, and therefore suitable language for computer software. ( a report in Forbes magazine, July 1987 ).

 

• Chess was invented in India.