What they study · The lineage
Every subject has a face: the ṛṣis and siddhas
Indian Knowledge is not anonymous. Each subject at iGurukulam carries the name of the ṛṣi or siddha who first saw it, and the first class of that subject begins with them, not with a chapter number. The acharya stands in their line; the child joins it.
Āryabhaṭa
Bhāratīya Gaṇita
Place value, the sine table and a turning Earth, in 121 verses, 499 CE.
Bhāskara
Bhāratīya Gaṇita
The Līlāvatī: arithmetic taught as riddles, each one a small story.
Charaka
Āyurveda
The Charaka Saṃhitā: diet, the doṣas and the duty of the physician.
Suśruta
Āyurveda, surgery
The Suśruta Saṃhitā: instruments, wounds and the first grafts, two and a half thousand years ago.
Patañjali
Yoga
The Yoga Sūtras: the stilling of the mind, in four short chapters.
Pāṇini
Saṃskṛtam
The Aṣṭādhyāyī: the whole language in about four thousand sūtras.
Vālmīki and Vyāsa
Itihāsa
The Rāmāyaṇa and the Mahābhārata: the stories the children hear every day.
Varāhamihira
Nakṣatra Vidyā
The Bṛhat Saṃhitā and the Pañcasiddhāntikā: the sky, watched and written down.
Kaṇāda
Bhāratīya Vijñāna
The Vaiśeṣika Sūtras: matter built from aṇu, long before the word atom.
Bharata Muni
Sangīta, nāṭya and Kalā
The Nāṭyaśāstra: dance, music and theatre as one art, with its rasas.
Agastya
The siddha tradition
First of the siddhas and, in the tradition's own telling, the father of Tamil grammar.
Bhogar and the siddhas of Palani
Siddha knowledge, the Tamil country
Near whose hill the Anaadi ashram stands, and whose medicine, metallurgy and yoga the children meet.
- Named when a subject opens. The first Bhāratīya Gaṇita class begins with Āryabhaṭa; the first Āyurveda class with Charaka.
- Read in their own words. A verse from the source text, in the original, at every level, with the acharya.
- Carried as a lineage. The acharya stands in the line of the ṛṣi, and tells the child so. Knowledge with a name is knowledge with a reason.
[PORTRAITS: one illustration of each ṛṣi and siddha above, in the style used at Anaadi's gurukulams; the subject icons stand in until then. Confirm the list of names and the words under each]
Why: a child who has read Āryabhaṭa knows that India did not borrow its mathematics. The tradition is a line of people, and the child is its newest member.
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