Tag Archives: Ganita

Pauthavam — Indic Weights & Measures

June 30, 2021UncategorizedBharatavarsha, Ganita, History, Sci/Tech, TraditionsN.R.I.pathi

For all the talk of decoloniality, one of the most colonised areas of the modern Indic mind is dimensionality. Specifically, Indic Weights & Measures have long been forgotten by the masses at large, and even most of our “intellectuals-yet-idiot”. While … Read the rest

Integral Engineering in the Sulba Sutras — 3

March 3, 2018UncategorizedDharma, Ganita, Sanatana, Sci/Tech, TraditionsShivoham

The Enduring Legacy of the Sulbasutras

Summary

Part 1: Why study the Sulbasutras — Objectives.

https://indicportal.orgsulba-sutras-the-indic-approach-to-engineering-1/

Part 2: Engineering Principles & Geometric Sciences — Harappan Period to Sulbasutras.

https://indicportal.orgsulbasutras-the-indic-approach-to-engineering-2/

Extended Abstract / Executive Summary

The Sulbasutras are the world’s earliest … Read the rest

Sulbasutras & the Indic Approach to Engineering — 2

February 7, 2018UncategorizedDharma, Ganita, Sanatana, Sci/Tech, TraditionsShivoham

Summary

Part-1 focused on the transcendental objective of the Sulba Sutras. Geometrical metaphors and algebraic ideas emerge from the system of correspondences (bandhus) established in the Yagna [3, 4, 5]. This results in a natural unity among seemingly diverse … Read the rest

Sulba Sutras & the Indic Approach to Engineering — 1

January 16, 2018UncategorizedDharma, Ganita, Literature, Sci/Tech, TraditionsShivoham

How great is the science which revealed itself in the Sulba, and how meagre is my intellect! I have aspired to cross the unconquerable ocean in a mere raft". 
-Bibhutibhushan Datta, Science of the Sulbas.

Summary

In this short … Read the rest

Vedanga Jyotisha & Indology

October 2, 2017UncategorizedBharatavarsha, Dharma, Ganita, Literature, Sci/Tech, TraditionsShivoham

The method of simply assuming results, once one is persuaded that they are true, rather than trying to prove them, has all the advantages of thievery over honest toil.
- Bertrand Russell quoted in The Origins of Astronomy [5].

Introduction

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