ACTIVITY REPORT OF "I-SERVE" UPTO JUNE 2006
I-SERVE is
a non profit making charitable institute dedicated to find out the full
technical details of the sciences hidden in Vedic & Post Vedic literature,
so that at least some of the ancient techniques, said to be nature friendly
and non hazardous, are brought back to contemporary utility.
Infact I-SERVE
was started on the 1st day of the 2nd millennium and the organizers conducted
several meetings and group discussions with various cross sections of
traditional scholars and modern scientists before making it a registered
body on 21st June 2004.
The 1st phase
of the research undertaken by I-SERVE, which is expected to extend up
to the end of 2010, has two main branches viz., Book Search and Book Study.
The scheme
of Book Search involves Sanskrit-knowing people who travel to different
states of India in search of manuscripts of "Ancient Sanskrit Scientific
Text Books." The presence of such books in the ancient times is established
by I-SERVE through a study of various source books, inscriptions etc and
list of around 400 titles of books is already prepared and put on the
website of I-SERVE, for the benefit of the interested researches. The
list itself is acclaimed to be a good research work, by many scholars.
As on today
7 batches of Book searchers are going round Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu,
Kerala, Karnataka, Gujarat, Maharastra, Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Bihar
and Bengal in search of such books. So far more than 500 libraries were
covered and a list of more than 1000 manuscripts / old, out of print books
have been secured. Xerox copies of around 20 rare books 40 out of print
books are taken so far, and they are distributed to different scholars
for the purpose of study.
In the second
step of "Book Study" nine projects are identified for in-depth
studies. The details are as follows:
1.
Study of Adharvana Veda
2. Study of Sri Chakra - Principles of Quantum Physics
3. Study of Astronomy & Cosmology
4. Study of Winds, Clouds & Rains
5. Study of Geology & Earth quakes
6. Study of Ayurveda
7. Study of Agriculture
8. Study of Animal Husbandry
9. Study of Ancient Mathematics
Several Conferences / Seminars / Symposia etc were organized so far, to
get the cooperation of like minded scholars and to elicit methods of research
on different subjects.
1.
On 24.10.2004 a conference on "Vedic Sciences in general" was
conducted at Hyderabad which was attended by Prof.
Venkata Rami Reddy, the then Vice Chancellor of JNTU, Hyderabad. Prof.
Dr. D. Swaminathan, Member, National Advisory
Council, Govt. of India, and Sri T. Hanuman Chowdary,
Former advisor to Govt. of A.P. on Information Technology, as guests of
Honor.
2.
Another Conference was held on 29.11.2004 at Hyderabad which was attended
by a large number of Sanskrit and Vedic scholars,
University Professors, Scientists etc. In this meet, the action plan and
objectives of I-SERVE were discussed and approved by the delegates.
3.
On 3.4.2005 another conference, exclusively for Sanskrit scholars, was
held at Hyderabad and a call was given to all
Sanskrit scholars to take part in the activities of I-SERVE and help its
book search and book study programs. It was also
announced that Honorariums would be paid to those scholars
who participate in Book search activity.
4.
The I-SERVE, as a part of its action plan for five years, organized, in
collaboration with another research organization
called The Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Studies (JNIAS) headed
by Dr. Swaminathan a National Conference on "Vedic
Knowledge: Contemporary relevance" during 16th
- 18th June 2005 at Hyderabad to expose various aspects in the Vedas,
their scope and applicability for the present
times. The research papers of this conference we brought out as a volume
and were put in our website: www.serveveda.org. Anybody can visit the
site.
5. As
a part of its planned program to take up the Vedic sciences, one after
the other, for its research activity, I-SERVE
took up Ayurveda in the first step, since this branch of Vedic Sciences
is the most needed one for the present day global
situation and organized a National Conference on
"Ayurvedic Medicare as Evidence based Medicine" at Hyderabad
during 16th & 17th February, 2006. Scholars
and Experts, nation wide, who worked both in the Ayurveda and Modern systems
of medicine have participated and deliberated
in this conference. The Research Papers presented in
the Conference were published in two volumes and they are put on our website
also.
6.
As outcome of this seminar, the I-SERVE established an Ayurvedic Research
Center at Hyderabad which is striving to work
in the direction of encouraging inter disciplinary coordination, establishing
methods of creating evidence base for Ayurveda
and projecting Ayurveda to the modern world in a
more convincing way. To support this research center a free Ayurvedic
Dispensary is being run in the premises of I-SERVE
from 18th February 2006. It is running well.
7.
On 26th March 2006 "A Work Shop on Vedic Sciences" was conducted
in the premises of I-SERVE in which Prof. G.V.S.R.K.
Somayajulu, Sr. Professional Scientist, Dept. of Safeguards (Retd) International
Atomic Energy Agency, (UAEA-UN) Vienna, Prof. Bheema Sankaram, Formerly
Chairman, A.P. Mineral Development Corporation,
Fellow -Indian National Science Academ, Prof. Dr.D.Swaminathan
, member, National Advisory Council, Govt.of India, Dr.I.Sanjeeva Rao
Former Addl. Director of AYUSH, Govt. of A.P,
Hyderabad and others participated. A Book entitled "Modern
Sciences in the Ancient Land" , written by Sri K.V.Krishna Murthy,
Managing Director, I- SERVE, was released
in this Work Shop.
8.
A symposium on "Scientific References in Telugu Literature"
was conducted by I-SERVE at S.G.S Ashram, Dundigal,
Hyderabad on 1st April, 2006. Prof. Vedula Subrahmanya Sastry, (Formerly
Head of the Dept. Sanskrit & Telugu, Andhra
University) Sri Telakapalli Viswanatha Sarma, Retd. Principal,
Palem Sanskrit College, Prof. K.P.R. Vithal Murthy (Meteorologist, Andhra
University), Prof. K. Malayavasini, Dept. of Telugu,
Andhra University, Prof. N.L. Mohan (Dept. of Geo-physics, Osmania
University), Prof. C.V.V. Subrahmanyam, (Telugu University, Hyderabad)
etc have participated.
9.
A Seminar on "Krishna Yajurveda" was conducted on 30th April
2006 in the premises of I-SERVE Several Vedic
scholars who know the meaning of Vedas have attended and gave details
of scientific References in Krishna Yajurveda.
Sri Sri Sri Siddheswarananda Bharati Swami of Kurtalam Peetham,
Sri Raddam Prabhakar Rao, IPS Retd, Sri Telakapalli Vishwanatha Sharma
Retd Principal, Palem Sanskrit College, Sri Pullala
Sree Ramchandrudu & Sri Kuppa Krishna Murthy participated.
Intensifying
Ayurvedic research with the help of interdisciplinary scholars & conducting
a national count on astronomy and cosmology are chosen as the immediate
targets for the year 2006.
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