SEVEN COLOURS OF SUNLIGHT
Seven colours of sunlight Seven colours mix together to become an intense glow of white rays of the sun. Sir Isaac Newton, the renowned scientist of the 16 th century had been accredited with this discovery. World believes with this fanfare. Ages before Newton, the ancient Indian Vedic knowledge had revealed that the sunlight consisted of seven colours. sapta tvā harito rathe vahanti deva sürya soacikşeśam vicakşaņa ava divastārayanti sapta suryasya rasmyah ( rig veda 1.50.9 ) The seven colours are mixed together to form a day It also does not mean that the sun has only seven rays, the sun emits a million rays but each ray of sunlight is a combination of seven colours. In Vedic terminology it refers to the word "sapta aśva rūda" .it actually means seven coloured white sun rays. The Vedic meaning of the word "aśva" means “light rays”. The Taittiriya aranyakam says."eko-aśva vahati sapta nam...