Intresting Facts about Vasco di gama journey

                                                 At the time Europe(starting of 15th century )   they  invented first printing machine, Great  philosophers,authors spread about the india's wealth  and knowledge through their books.Christopher columbus knew greatness of india  through books.He tried to explore the ways to find india.Columbus came to believe that the India could be reached by sailing towards west through the Atlantic Ocean. He appealed to the kings of Portugal, France and England to finance a westward trip to the Indies, but all denied his request.Finally king  Ferdinand of spain financed for his travel.He took the ship,Santa Maria in 1492 in westwards. He want to find india but fortunately he found america and he thought india, that's why native american's are called red indian's.

                      

                           

                   
      






     
                                              3.Travel path of vasco di gama








2.Vasco di gama


    Europe started looking for india all over the world. This story was taken from the log book diary,which is misbon maritime museum. In 1948 vasco di gama sailed east wards through west coast of africa with Sao Gabriel,which was the largest ship in europe at the time(28 metres) . Following several months of travel,He rounded 
the Cape of good hope and following his travel towards eastwards.He lost the sight of 
the land during his journey.He scared to move forward. At the time his ship was 
guided by indian ships which were ten times bigger than his ship.

              When we look at the ship sizes mentioned in the Nava Shastra, the Indian Navigational text, we see that there were indeed ships of the size observed by Vasco da Gama. From these measurements, it is obvious that India had large ships, with industries that built such large ships.

                                       4.Indian ship sizes according to Navs Shastra

                   Unfortunately British destroy indian navigation industry to make way for the modern ships of the english to make their economy prosper.

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Ancient indian technique extract color (Neelam) from indigo plants

Today we all are using different varieties of clothes.People are looking for well looking colors of clothes.Normally in ancient days colors are extracted from plants,mostly indigo.Did any one know  where the extraction of color started???

The term indigo comes from roman term indicumm, which means a product of india. locally called neeli. A thousand of years ago local farmers in india extracted the die and exported to Africa, japan,etc..

Extraction process:  Crush the leaves of indigo(neeli) plants and allowed to stays 2-3 days in fermentation tank, and then heated up to maintain acidity and alkalinity of the color.Beating of the leaves can change the color from light blue to blue,thick blue to blue or black. Then allowed to filtering followed by drying to make fine shaped into cakes.These were exported to all over the world including europe.

 
                                                            1. Crushing leaves

2. Fermentation

3.Beating of leaves

4.Filtering

5.Drying

6.Blue cakes

Irony  :  In the year 1905 johann van bayer awarded to replicate the process "neeli rasayanam" . For that he awarded by nobel prize.But nobody gave any appreciation or awards to local farmers who are doing the same thing about 100's of years before..

                                                             


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