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 :
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
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
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 1:06 PM
Subject: 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.
Regards
Srinivasan Sriram
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 4:56
AM
Subject: Fw: Vedanta Desikar and other
Indian Contributions to Computer 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
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:
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.
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