Tag: hinduism
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Mesha Sankranti – Hindu Solar New Year
The Sankranti (transit) of the Sun into Mesha Rashi (Taurus) is celebrated as the New Year by Hindu communities that follow the Sauramana (solar) Hindu calendar. This largely includes the Assamese (Rongali Bihu), Bengali (Pohela Boishak), Bodo (Bwisagu), Maithali (Jur-Sital), Malayalam (Vishu), Odia (Pana Sankranti), Punjabi (Vaisakhi), Tamil (Puthandu) and Tullu (Bisu) Hindu communities. The…
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The Kashmiri Hindu Identity: 33 Years On
On 9th February 2023, Kings College London’s Hindu Society in collaboration with UCL Hindu Society and Imperial Hindu Society hosted an event on Kashmiri Identity at UCL. The evening featured an incredible presentation and Q and A from Kashmiri youth, who’s parents had witnessed and experienced first-hand the exodus in Kashmir during 1990. The event…
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1202 – Fibonnaci
Liber Abaci triggers widespread adoption of the Hindu numeral system by Europe In the Liber Abaci (1202), Fibonacci introduced the so-called modus Indorum (method of the Indians), today known as the Hindu numeral system. The manuscript book advocated numeration with the digits 0–9 and place value. The book showed the practical use and value of…
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976 – Hindu numeral system adopted by Christian monks
In Christian Europe, the first mention and representation of Hindu numerals (from one to nine), is in the Codex Vigilanus, a collection of several historical documents from the Visigothic period in Spain, written in the year 976 by three monks of the Riojan monastery of San Martin de Albelda. Between 967 and 969, Gerbert of Aurillac discovered…
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200 BCE – Snakes and Ladders
Moksha Patam, or ‘Snakes and Ladders’, as it is known in English, gained popularity in the West in the 20th Century, having originated in Bharat as part of a family of dice board games, along with Gyan chauper and pachisi (present-day Ludo and Parcheesi). The game has a strong association with traditional Hindu philosophy contrasting…