Seven Colours of Sun Light

Seven colours mix together to become. An intense glow of white rays of the Sun. Sir Isaac Newton;the renowned scientist of 16th centuary had been accredited with this Discovery. World believes this with all fanfare.

Ages before Newton,the ancient Indian Vedic knowledge had revealed that the sunlight consists of seven colours.

Sapta tvaa harito rathe vahanti deva surya shociksesham vicaksana
ava divastaarayanti sapta suryasya rasmyah

(Rigveda 1.50.9)

(Atharvaveda 17-10-17-1)

Sun's seven coloured rays are making a day.

Does that means sun has only seven rays? No, sun emits millions of rays. But each ray of light has seven colours embeded in it. The Vedic terminology often refers to word "saptha ashva ruda". It actually means seven coloured white sunrays. The Vedic meaning of word "ashva" also means "light rays".

The Taittriya aranyakam says "eko-ashva vahati sapta namah".

(Rigveda 1-164-2)

It means sun Light is one(white) but called as seven,figuratively the above sloka can be expressed as sun being carried by one horse called with seven names.

Interestingly in Chandogya Upahishad there is a sloka(8-6-1),it says that sun's ray has three colours;they are blue,yellow and red. Infact lhis is also true in the sense that three colours are the.basic colours,which become other colours.

Who goes around whom, Earth vs Sun?

Who goes around whom, Earth vs Sun?

Heliocentric theory of our solar system was first propounded by Copernicus in 1453. He propounded that the Sun is the center of our universe and all planets revolve around it. As it was against the views of the holy Bible, he had been prosecuted. Afterwards in the year 1632 Galileo, supported this view and became sinner in the eys of Church.

But, Indian perception about our solar system is clearly stated in Vedas and other oriental Astronomical texts.

Ancient Vedic knowledge is very lucid in its expression about Sun being the center of our Universe(Solar system).

Let us analyze few Vedic verses in this regard,

mitro daadhaara prthavimutyam mitrah krstih

(Rigveda 3.5.59.1)

Sun, with his attracting force is holding this earth and other celestial bodies.

Trinabhicramajaramanarvam yenemaa visva bhuvaanitastuh

(Rigveda 1.164.1)

All the celestial bodies (planets) are moving in elliptical orbits.

आयम् गौः प्श्निरक्रमीत् असदन्मातरं पुरः पितरं च प्रयन्त्स्वः।

(Rigveda 10.189.1)

Moon being the sub planet of Earth, is revolving around its motherly planet earth and earth is revolving around its fatherly planet Sun.

Sun never sets or rises ,because of earth's movements , it appears to us as sun rising in the east and setting in the west.

(Rigveda- Aitareya Brahman)

Aryabhatta, had clearly explained this phenomenon with a logical principle called, “Laghu-Guru Nyaya”(लघु गुरु न्याय). Laghu means small or light weighted object, Guru means big or heavy object . It implies that a small object revolves around a big object, like a disciple going around a Guru or Teacher.

He had also stated that Moon gets Light from the Sun and so shines. He is the first person to propound that each planet moves around itself and he had accurately calculated the time taken for Earth's rotation around itself and Earth's revolution around Sun.

In the Indian view, the Sun and the moon were also considered to be “Graham” (The meaning of the word should not be mistaken for Planet). “Graha” in Sanskrit means that which influencesor which gets influences.

Many Astronomical and Astrological calculations of various Indian Astronomers were based on the relative positions of various celestial bodies. Hence these calculations should not be interpretted as “Earth centered Universe”. There ws a crystal clear clarity among Indians that Sun is the center of Universe. The Vedas, and the above-referred Indian Astronomical texts, substantiate this fact.

(Source: Ancient Indian Science & its relevant to modern world P-27; Published by Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeth, Tirupati).