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It is now well-known that the so-called "Arabic numerals," without
whose symbols advanced mathematics is difficult, came to Europe in
the 9th century, via the Arabs, from India, where that system of
notation had been anciently formulated. Further light on India's
vast scientific heritage will be found in Dr. P. C. Ray's HISTORY
OF HINDU CHEMISTRY, and in Dr. B. N. Seal's POSITIVE SCIENCES OF
THE ANCIENT HINDUS.
{FN16-2} The blessing which flows from the mere sight of a saint.
{FN16-3} One of the girls whom my family selected as a possible
bride for me, afterwards married my cousin, Prabhas Chandra Ghose.
{FN16-4} A series of thirteen articles on the historical verification
of Sri Yukteswar's YUGA theory appeared in the magazine EAST-WEST
(Los Angeles) from September, 1932, to September, 1933.
{FN16-5} In the year A.D. 12,500.
{FN16-6} The Hindu scriptures place the present world-age as
occurring within the KALI YUGA of a much longer universal cycle than
the simple 24,000-year equinoctial cycle with which Sri Yukteswar
was concerned. The universal cycle of the scriptures is 4,300,560,000
years in extent, and measures out a Day of Creation or the length
of life assigned to our planetary system in its present form. This
vast figure given by the rishis is based on a relationship between
the length of the solar year and a multiple of Pi (3.1416, the
ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle).
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