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wasn't this the one where they had very accurate value of PI in a poem about lord krishna.
by DesiLurker 4y ago
wasn't this the one where they had very accurate value of PI in a poem about lord krishna.
- deaddodo 4y agoNot anything about Krishna. The Sadratnamala: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadratnamala https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadratnamala And it was intentional.
- awsrocks 4y agoYes that’s right. This is the verse- गोपीभाग्यमधुव्रात-शृङ्गिशोदधिसन्धिग॥ खलजीवितखाताव गलहालारसंधर॥ Beautiful
- satish-setty 4y agoYes, indeed. It is mentioned in the wikipedia link ("गोपीभाग्यमधुव्रात..."). I first read it in the "Vedic Mathematics" book by HH Bharati Krishna Tirtha Swamiji. Since he didn't give any attribution, I suppose he was the first one to reveal it.
- tauwauwau 4y agoFound it, it's mentioned in the Wiki Page This verse encrypts the value of pi (π) up to 31 decimal places. गोपीभाग्यमधुव्रात-शृङ्गिशोदधिसन्धिग॥ खलजीवितखाताव गलहालारसंधर॥ ... <Malyalam shloka/poem> This verse directly yields the decimal equivalent of pi divided by 10: pi/10 = 0.31415926535897932384626433832792 This link goes into more details of this one shloka/poem https://www.speakingtree.in/allslides/encryption-in-ancient-india/22702 https://www.speakingtree.in/allslides/encryption-in-ancient-...