Sunday 27 December 2020

My Heart Beat

 


My Heart Beat

This is the feeling from the core of my heart about 

My WIFE

(Try To Read If You Find Time)

https://ramamohanraocheruku.blogspot.com/2020/12/my-wife.html


Under normal course the male, when ripe, get married to a suitable girl. It all depends on how they make chemistry with each other.

As regard me, I got married at 21, when my wife was 14. Honestly I feel that to be the age to build up an interwoven relationship. Me, being elder, I took lead to be closer to her who entered into my life with certain aspirations than making a trail to understand me. However I could mould her to set her right to the family environment.

My effort did not go waste. She transformed herself into an indispensable personality to the house. With so many laurels to her credit, she served my Grandmother (My Mother's Mother) who brought me up as I lost my mother at my 2nd year of my age, for 4 1\2 years attending every need of her including her calls of nature also. I know this is too small a tribute I can pay her who still serves this lazy person with all the love and affection.


I am the body she is the soul

Who plays main role my life as a whole  

She is my wife for my miseries she is the knife

She rules over me without commanding armies

She can wound and hurt me without swords and arms

But she loves me to the core 

And on me showers it more and more

Her smile is a boon and weep is a typhoon

I can't bear her tiff but titter

She is my everlasting spring weather

Spell bound I stare at her face

That always glows in innocent grace

She is the fret of my Sitar

Guiding me to press the appropriate tar

(Sanskrit, tar= String)

To give sweet sound reminding me the rapport

And only shrill noise without such support

She is the source of water and light

For my garden to my delight

She craved for my progress and prosperity

Always and all along with the almighty

She is not a lady of shapes and curves

And never makes sudden swerves

How can I equate her with a lean Lilly

She is my rose actually

Taking me out of the den

And making me enjoy the fragrance of the garden

Like light to the sun and flight to the bird

Let me be the meaning of her every word

I promise and swear to God above

I adore her always with my pure love

Nothing she asked except children

For which I took twenty years to run

To her I gave grief and agony

In lieu of jewels and money

Still she loves and lives for me

Even in dreams I was never her enemy

Children are her priority

I come under minority

But never has she showed any superiority

She is a lady with all veracity

She loves all and loved by all

They help at her beck and call

In fact, she is, my guarding wall

If she not there I will spall (breaking into pieces)

From her I draw all the yare (liveliness)

Without her my life is a night mare

Here or there, for that matter any where

With her I want a berth to share

CHERUKU RAMA MOHAN RAO

Wednesday 16 December 2020

Vedic Mathematics

Vedic Mathematics

       https://ramamohanraocheruku.blogspot.com/2020/12/vedic-mathematics-it-requires-little.html

It requires a little patience and concern for the motherland, for readers to go through this lengthy article. It is imperative on our part to know the greatness of our ancestors who made our heads with all pride and vanity. It is their rich contribution to the mathematical world to have a breakthrough in several vital areas of mathematics.

At the outset I salute Sri Kosla Vepa Ph.D for his extensive and enormous research with all his commitment dedication and devotion for this great country, its culture, tradition and for those great people who never mind for their personal name and fame but contributed everything they know to the mankind without any reciprocation.

Uncovering the scope of Ancient Indian Mathematics faces a twofold difficulty. To determine who discovered what we must have an accurate idea of the chronology of Ancient India.  This has been made doubly difficult by the faulty dating of  Indian Historical events by Sir William Jones, who practically invented the fields of linguistics and philology if for a moment we discount the contributions of Panini (Ashtadhyayi)and Yaska (Nirukta) a couple of millennia before him . Sir William, who was reputed to be an accomplished linguist, was nevertheless totally ignorant of Sanskrit  when he arrived in India and proceeded in short order to decipher the entire history of  India from his own meager understanding of the language, In the process he brushed aside the conventional history as known and memorized by Sanskrit pundits for hundreds  of years and as recorded in the Puranas and invented a brand new timeline for India which was not only egregiously wrong  but hopelessly scrambled up the sequence of events and personalities. See for instance my chronicle on the extent of the damage caused by Sir William and his cohorts in my essay on the South Asia File.

It is not clear whether this error was one caused by inadequate knowledge of language or one due to deliberate falsification of records. It is horrific to think that a scholar of the stature of sir William would resort to skullduggery merely to satisfy his preconceived notions of the antiquity of Indic contributions to the sum of human knowledge. Hence we will assume Napoleon’s dictum was at play here and that we should attribute not to malice that which can be explained by sheer incompetence. This mistake has been compounded over the intervening decades by a succession of  British historians, who intent on reassuring themselves of their racial  superiority, refused to acknowledge the antiquity  of India, merely because ‘it could not possibly be’. When once they discovered the antiquity of Egypt, Mesopotamia and Babylon, every attempt was made not to disturb the notion that the Tigris Euphrates river valley was the cradle of civilization.

The Wikipedia section on Indian Mathematics says the following;

Unfortunately, Indian contributions have not been given due acknowledgement in modern history, with many discoveries/inventions by Indian mathematicians now attributed to their western counterparts, due to Eurocentrism.

The historian Florian Cajori, one of the most celebrated historians of mathematics in the early 20th century, suggested that "Diophantus, the father of Greek algebra, got the first algebraic knowledge from India." This theory is supported by evidence of continuous contact between India and the Hellenistic world from the late 4th century BC, and earlier evidence that the eminent Greek mathematician Pythagoras visited India, which further 'throws open' the Eurocentric ideal.

More recently, evidence has been unearthed that reveals that the foundations of calculus were laid in India, at the Kerala School. Some allege that calculus and other mathematics of India were transmitted to Europe through the trade route from Kerala by traders and Jesuit missionaries. Kerala was in continuous contact with China, Arabia, and from around 1500, Europe as well, thus transmission would have

Furthermore, we cannot discuss Vedic mathematics without discussing Babylonian and Greek Mathematics to give it the scaffolding and context. We will devote some attention to these developments to put the Indic contribution in its proper context

However in recent years, there has been greater international recognition of the scope and breadth of the Ancient Indic contribution to the sum of human knowledge especially in some fields of science and technology such as Mathematics and Medicine. Typical of this new stance is the following excerpt by researchers at St. Andrews in Scotland.

An overview of Indian mathematics

It is without doubt that mathematics today owes a huge debt to the outstanding contributions made by Indian mathematicians over many hundreds of years. What is quite surprising is that there has been a reluctance to recognize this and one has to conclude that many famous historians of mathematics found what they expected to find, or perhaps even what they hoped to find, rather than to realize what was so clear in front of them.

We shall examine the contributions of Indian mathematics in this article, but before looking at this contribution in more detail we should say clearly that the "huge debt" is the beautiful number system invented by the Indians on which much of mathematical development has rested. Laplace put this with great clarity:-

The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol having a place value and an absolute value) emerged in India. The idea seems so simple nowadays that its significance and profound importance is no longer appreciated. Its simplicity lies in the way it facilitated calculation and placed arithmetic foremost amongst useful inventions. The importance of this invention is more readily appreciated when one considers that it was beyond the so called two greatest men of Antiquity, Archimedes and Apollonius.

We shall look briefly at the Indian development of the place-value decimal system of numbers later in this article and in somewhat more detail in the separate article Indian numerals. First, however, we go back to the first evidence of mathematics developing in India.

Histories of Indian mathematics used to begin by describing the geometry contained in the Sulvasutras but research into the history of Indian mathematics has shown that the essentials of this geometry were older being contained in the altar constructions described in the Vedic mythology text the Shatapatha Brahmana and the Taittiriya Samhita. Also it has been shown that the study of mathematical astronomy in India goes back to at least the third millennium BC and mathematics and geometry must have existed to support this study in these ancient times.

Equally exhaustive in its treatment is the Wiki encyclopedia, where in general the dates are still suspect.

Swasthi.