The next city on my travels was to Pataliputra. As the capital of the Gupta empire, this land is along the Ganga River. The land itself is dry and humid like most of the other sites of the exploration. But there are also nearby mountains to give off a refreshing breeze to lighten up a tiring day.
First and Foremost, I found that the Gupta astronomy was much more accurate and sophisticated compared to that of the Greek. The most famous of the Gupta astronomers happen to be the man famous for his skills in mathematics. Aryabhata discovered that a year is actually 365.258 days at a time. He also found that the earth is spherical and turns on an axis, which is a well known fact today. I was also told by the modern day astronomers of this land that Aryabhata found that the planet traveled around the sun, and that eclipses-moon shadows existed. It was also known that Mercury and Venus were the sun and the moon. Tune in to the next portion of this blog..coming soon to Internets around the globe.
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