A Glimpse of Ancient Indian Astronomy. #part-02
Do you know which star is the closest to the earth, When I was student my teacher asked the question to me and at that time my answer was sun, and the answer my teacher expected form me was "Proxima Centauri" but i surprised him by saying it is the sun. But yes it is granted. But the next closest star to the earth was "Proxima Centauri" . It is approximately about 4.2 light years from the earth. Do you know what about ancient called the 'Proxima Centauri' is "Mitr" (Meaning- the friend) , is that's a coincidence? that they named the closest star as 'Mitr'. It also shows that they know the difference between planets and stars. Here is the Modern value of speed of light 186,282.397 miles/sec. Now just look after to this 'Shloka'. One 'Nimisha' is the amount of time need to blink your eyes and 1 'Yojana' is around 8-9 miles. this particular 'Shloka' that you see here is actually the formula to calcul