समपरिणाहस्यार्ध विष्कम्भार्धहतमेव वृत्तफलम् ।
Sama Parinaaha hasya ardha vishkamba ardha hatameva vrtta phalam
Meaning of each word:
Sama – equal
Parinaaha – diameter
Ardha – half
Vishkambha – circumference
Hatam – multiply
Eva – exactly
Vrtta – circle
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Sama Parinaaha hasya ardha vishkamba ardha hatameva vrtta phalam
Meaning of each word:
Sama – equal
Parinaaha – diameter
Ardha – half
Vishkambha – circumference
Hatam – multiply
Eva – exactly
Vrtta – circle
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Phalam – result
Literally, “Equal diameter-half circumference-half mutliply-exactly circle’s-result”
Rephrased grammatically in English: “A circle’s area equals half the diameter multiplied by half the circumference”.
This was stated in Sanskrit by none other than Aryabhatta.
Literally, “Equal diameter-half circumference-half mutliply-exactly circle’s-result”
Rephrased grammatically in English: “A circle’s area equals half the diameter multiplied by half the circumference”.
This was stated in Sanskrit by none other than Aryabhatta.
It is the seventh sloka in his Aryabhateeyam.
For ancient Indians, Sanskrit was not only the language of religion and literature, it was also the language of several sciences, law, and several arts, namely music, dance, theatre, painting, sculpture architecture etc.
For ancient Indians, Sanskrit was not only the language of religion and literature, it was also the language of several sciences, law, and several arts, namely music, dance, theatre, painting, sculpture architecture etc.
Many famous books were written by scholars across several centuries:
1. Bharata’s Natya Shastra – Music,dance
2. Chanakya’s Artha Shastra – Political economics, admin
3. Panini’s Ashta Adhyaayi – Sanskrit grammar
4. Pingala’s Chanda Shastra – Prosody
5. Caraka Samhita – Medicine
1. Bharata’s Natya Shastra – Music,dance
2. Chanakya’s Artha Shastra – Political economics, admin
3. Panini’s Ashta Adhyaayi – Sanskrit grammar
4. Pingala’s Chanda Shastra – Prosody
5. Caraka Samhita – Medicine
6. Maya Matha – Architecture
7. Nyaya Sutra – Logic
8. Kama Sutra – Erotics, painting, arts
Panini used Siva Sutras (also called Maheshvara Sutras) to write extremely compact rules of grammar for Sanskrit. Why is Panini never mentioned in any computer science course?
7. Nyaya Sutra – Logic
8. Kama Sutra – Erotics, painting, arts
Panini used Siva Sutras (also called Maheshvara Sutras) to write extremely compact rules of grammar for Sanskrit. Why is Panini never mentioned in any computer science course?
Why is not a single discovery of Baudhayana, Aryabhata, Brahmagupta or Bhaskara ever taught in an engineering course? Any school or college? We never hear of them, because, over time, Sanskrit has become more alien in India than Greek or Latin.
Many remarkable scientific and technological achievements of ancient Indians are still unknown. The libraries were destroyed by iconoclastic invaders, but the library of all Sanskrit knowledge is vandalized every day by our collective ignorance, and deliberate negligence.
Source - Vedic Astronomy: The Science That Predates The Telescope By Several Thousand Years.
By R Gopu.
By R Gopu.
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