Rao Saheb Krishnaji Vajhe had passed the engineering exam in 1891 from Pune. While looking for scriptures related to science, he found a few pages of the Agastya Samhita with Damodar Tryambak Joshi of Ujjain. These belonged to around Shaka Samvat 1550. Later on, after reading the said description in the pages of the Samhita, Dr.M.C.Sahastrabuddhe, the Head of the Sanskrit Department in Nagpur felt that the description was very similar to that of Daniel Cell. So he gave it to P.P. Hole, the Professor of Engineering at Nagpur, with a request to investigate. Agastya’s sources were as follows:
(Agasthya Samhita)
“Take an earthen pot, place a copper sheet, and put the shikhigreeva in it. Then, smear it with wet sawdust, mercury and zinc. Then, if you join the wires, it will give rise to Mitravarunashakti.”When Mr. Hole and his friend started preparing the apparatus on the basis of the above description, they could understand all the things except shikhigreeva. On checking the Sanskrit dictionary, they understood that it meant the neck of a peacock. So, he and his friend went to Maharaj Bagh and asked the chief when a peacock would die in his zoo. This angered the gentleman. Then they told him that they needed its neck for an experiment. The gentleman asked them to give in an application.
Later, when during a conversation, they narrated this to an Ayurveda expert, he burst out laughing and said that here it did not mean the neck of a peacock, but a substance of that colour, that is copper sulphate. This solved the problem. Thus, a cell was formed and measured with a digital multimeter. It had an open circuit voltage of 1.38 volts and short circuit current of 23 milli amperes.
The information that the experiment was successful was conveyed to Dr.M.C. Sahastryabuddhe. This cell was exhibited on August 7, 1990 before the scholars of the fourth general meeting at the Swadeshi Vigyan Sanshodhan Sanstha, Nagpur. It was then realizedthat the description was of the electric cell. They investigated as to what the context was and it was realized that Sage Agasthya had said many things before this.Agasthya Samhita also contains an account of how electricity can be used for electroplating. He also discovered a way to polish gold, silver, and copper with a battery.
During the description of battery, Agasthya Samhitha described the energy as a light known by the twin-names Mitra-Varuna (cathode-anode or electricity). Does it actually refer to the name of the Sage Agasthya, who was also know as ‘kuda muni’ or born in a jar from the energy of Mithra and Varuna two Vedic Gods?
The description also involved water being split up by this process into gases. Dr Kokatnur, a chemist from India, described the descriptions fitting with that of hydrogen and oxygen. He presented his theories at the American Chemical Society meeting, held at Detroit, Michigan. Obviously Sage Agasthya did not mention the gases by the names we know as hydrogen and oxygen. However, hydrogen was referred to as ‘up faced’ as it is light and oxygen as ‘vital, as it is responsible for life. The actual description of testing of hydrogen’s lightness by filling it in a rubber container to check that it floats, and the combustible properties of oxygen are described.
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