"The first cause was a self aware singularity.The truth is ∞"
Yajnavalkya, 2000 BCE

"There is nothing permanent. Not even the self. The truth is 0"
Buddha, 500 BCE

"Truth is multifaceted. Both 0 & ∞"
Mahavira, 500 BCE

"Mathematically I found that 0=1/∞"
Bhaskara II, 1150 CE
This is why Europe would never have discovered zero and calculus on its own even after a thousand years. They simply did not have the phisosophical foundation for it. They did it the easy way- mass plagiarism of Indian hard work.
This is also why Indic darsanas(Vedic, Jain and Buddhist) should not be treated as 'religions'. They are not a bunch of dogmas at eternal conflict with each other like middle Eastern faiths. They are high philosophies that directly inspired modern mathematics.
It is important to build our counter narrative to challenge the colonial edifice. I shall make a better thread with more contributions by individual philosophers and mathematicians.
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