Vedanta Desikar and other Indian Contributions to Computer Science

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SrI:

 

Dear BhakthAs of Swamy Desika :

 

I am very pleased to attach the note from Sriman Sriram

containing graphical representation of Chathuranga (Chess)

Turaga ( Horse) Bhandham thru SlOkmas 929 & 930 and its

links to the Knight 's ( the hero on horse) diagonal

movement across a chess Board without revisiting

the positions along the route :

 

http://www.ibiblio.org/sripedia/ebooks/vdesikan/rps/knight.html

 

Thank you Sriman Sriram for help with easy visualization

of the Knight's problems and solutions as executed by Swamy Desikan

many centuries ago .

 

The entire Chitra Paddhathi section is available ay

http://www.Sadagopan.org

 

Please link there to Padhuka Sahasram hyperlink and

go from there onto Chithra Paddhadhi via Paddhathi link .

 

You will have a darsanam at one place of Sri Bhumi Devi Sametha

Oppiliappan , Swamy NammAzhwar , the dhivya dampathis of

Srirangam and Swamy Desikan on this KrishNa DhwAdasi day

following BhIshma EkAdasi yesterday , when Sri VishNu Sahasra

Naamam was born at the battle field of Kuru KshEthram at the end of

the MahA Bhaaratha Yuddham .

 

If one examines the other SlOkams of Chitra Paddhathi ,

one can get a clue on additional Mathematical Problems.

 

Swamy Desikan ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam ,

Srimath Azhagiya Singar Thiruvadi , V.Sadagopan

 

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S. Sriram

Sadagopan ; Anil T

Sunday, February 20, 2005 1:06 PM

Re: Vedanta Desikar and other Indian Contributions to Computer Science

 

 

Dear Sri Sadagopan,

 

I created a page alongwith the text of the Padhuka Sahasram that

incorporates your notes on the verses 929 & 930 alongwith a simple

pictorial representation of the knight's problem/solution.

url http://www.ibiblio.org/sripedia/ebooks/vdesikan/rps/knight.html

 

Regards

Srinivasan Sriram

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Sadagopan

Ponnappan ; Sgt ; SG ; DS ; Swami ; Iowa ; Rajeev ;

Ramanujamission

Cc: ST ; Anil ; S. Sriram

Sunday, February 20, 2005 4:56 AM

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Science

 

 

SrI:

 

Dear Sri Prasanna:

 

Thanks very much for updating us on the research investigations of

Professor Don Knuth of Stanford regarding Swamy Desikan's

Sri RanganAtha PaadhukA Sahasram (Chithra Paddhathi).

 

It is wonderful to read about the discovery of the Sarva Tantra Svatantrar's

multi-faceted genius by leading Computer Scientists like Don Knuth .

 

Inview of the potential of large interest in this news topic relating to

Swamy Desikan , I have copied other list members .

 

The other Chithra Kavi is Thirumangai Mannan . The Prabhandham

of ThiruvEzu KooRRirukkai is a Chithra Prabhandham with deep

content on Sri VisishtAdhvaithic Doctrines .

 

Thanks again ,

V.Sadagopan

 

 

Hi,

 

It is a source of great pride to us all that the work of Sri Vedanta Desikar

(Paduka Sahasra), Rudrata (Kavya-Alankara), and Ratnakara (Haravijaya), Dandin

(Kavyadarsha) has recently drawn accolades from one of the greatest computer

scientists - Donald Knuth.

 

" ... amazing wordplay,

(Explain) Desikar's achievement in detail, so that many more people can

appreciate the long and glorious history of combinatorics. ... " Knuth Jan 2005.

 

Sri Vedanta Desikar, the great Srivaishnava philosopher, had around 1300 A.D.,

made a great contribution to Computer Science and Lingustics, by presenting the

solution to the famous Knight's tour problem, in the Paduka Sahasra, singing the

glories of Lord SitaRama's Sandals. Two succeeding sloka's in this work together

yield the solution to the knight's tour problem. One sloka is written

sequentially, and the other is read ALONG the path taken by the knight, yielding

the tour. There are many similar examples of amazing word jugglery in the Paduka

Sahasra. His work has sparked off interest in the " Chittra-Kavya's " of India,

wherein even earlier contributions - 9th century - to the field have been very

recently found, by Knuth (currently at Oxford), David Smith and others. Knuth

has made his own " Chitra-Kavya's " , in English. For more details please see the

web page at the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore:

http://www.iiitb.ac.in/IndexPageMaterial/paduka.htm

We are in the process of further researching these amazing contributions to

computer science, and are contacting many in India and abroad. For this, we

require all the information you can provide, especially about the origins of the

" Chittra-Kavya's " in Sanskrit and other languages. If you know of any similar

slokas, and/or have access to authoritative texts/references, etc, please let us

know by email.

 

Regards

Prasanna

 

P.S. The Knight's tour problem is the problem of making a knight go to all

squares of a chessboard, without visiting any square twice - a Hamilton journey.