Letter PAMHO:10816912 (49 lines)
From:      Internet: cosmir@gmail.com
Date:      13-Dec-05 19:22
To:        "ISKCON - Hare Krishna - Nectar of devotion group"
           <nectarofdevotion@googlegroups.com>
Bcc:       (Bhakta) Jan Mares (NE-BBT Czech) [14396]
Reply-To:  nectarofdevotion@googlegroups.com
Subject:   [Nectar] Vedic Number Representation
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Vedic knowledge is in the form of slokas or poems in Sanskrit verse. A
number was encoded using consonant groups of the Sanskrit alphabet, and
vowels were provided as additional latitude to the author in poetic
composition. The coding key is given as Kaadi nav, taadi nav, paadi
panchak, yaadashtak ta ksha shunyam Translated as below

* letter "ka" and the following eight letters
* letter "ta" and the following eight letters
* letter "pa" and the following four letters
* letter "ya" and the following seven letters, and
* letter "ksha" for zero.

In other words,

* ka, ta, pa, ya = 1
* kha, tha, pha, ra = 2
* ga, da, ba, la = 3
* gha, dha, bha, va = 4
* gna, na, ma, scha = 5
* cha, ta, sha = 6
* chha, tha, sa = 7
* ja, da, ha = 8
* jha, dha = 9
* ksha = 0

For those of you who don't know or remember the varnmala, here it is:
ka kha ga gha gna
cha chha ja jha inya
Ta Tha Rda Dha Rna
ta tha da dha na
pa pha ba bha ma
ya ra la va scha
sha sa ha chjha tra gna

Thus pa pa is 11, ma ra is 52. Words kapa, tapa , papa, and yapa all
mean the same that is 11. It was upto the author to choose one that fit
the meaning of the verse well. An interesting example of this is a hymn
below in the praise of God Krishna that gives the value of Pi to the 32
decimal places as .31415926535897932384626433832792.

Gopi bhaagya madhu vraata
Shrngisho dadhisandhiga
Khalajivita khaataava
Galahaataarasandhara

Hare Krsna

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