While all this is true, I think his achievement is even greater than indicated by having single-handedly revived a dying art form in one language.

Consider: avadhāna is a literary sport: both erudite and joyful. Erudition can be heavy for much of the audience, so it would have

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been the most natural thing to keep it bounded—stick to a (large but) reasonable range of topics or texts—which would have been more than enough to make the point and impress anyone, even the scholars. (This is in fact what most avadhānis did and do) But instead Ganesh has always

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Some thoughts on reading it — It starts with the perfectly illustrative story of DEK as a 13-year-old boy methodically finding all words in "ZIEGLER'S GIANT BAR".
(This story especially sticks with me because coincidentally I had a similar (though almost completely different :P) experience—more on that later)

Fibonacci seq in Ācārya Hemacandra's Chando'nuśāsana (छन्दोऽनुशासन)
(Was going to write article abt these, got lazy) (This sequence is also found in earlier Indian works, but I found Hemacandra(~1088–1173)'s exposition clearest and easiest to understand.)