Cosmology Old and New

Author(s): G R Jain
Publisher: Bharatiya Gyanpith

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COSMOLOGY : OLD AND NEW to appreciate the immense complexity of what are seemingly the simplest phenomena of nature ?"
Once again we apprise the reader not to forget the words of Prof. Infeld:
"Scientific theories arise, develop and perish. They have their span of life, with its successes and triumphs, only to give way later to new ideas and a new outlook.”8
As Sir Rabindranath Tagore, winner of the Nobel Prize, said: "Until I had received an honour from a foreign country, I had received scant admiration from my countrymen", so, we may say, “Until an ancient view receives recognition from a foreign country, it receives scant admiration from its countrymen.” This spirit should die and the time is come when we should prove by our independent work the truth of our convictions. The author will consider his life-long labours amply repaid if he succeeds, in some measure, in establishing to demonstrate that this is so, by publishing this commentary on the 5th Chapter of Tanvarıhadhigama-sutra by Sri Acarya Umaswami, also called Umāswāti, comprising only 42 aphorisms in Sanskrit covering hardly a page of this book.
8. The World in Modern Science by Leopold Infeld, p. 231.