SrI:
Dear Sri Prasanna:
Thanks very much for updating us on the
research investigations of
Professor Don Knuth of Stanford regarding
Swamy Desikan's
Sri RanganAtha PaadhukA Sahasram (Chithra
Paddhathi).
It is wonderful to read about the discovery of the
Sarva Tantra Svatantrar's
multi-faceted genius by leading Computer Scientists
like Don Knuth .
Inview of the potential of large
interest in this news topic relating
to
Swamy Desikan , I have copied other list members .
The other Chithra Kavi is Thirumangai Mannan .
The Prabhandham
of ThiruvEzu KooRRirukkai is a Chithra
Prabhandham with deep
content on Sri VisishtAdhvaithic Doctrines
.
Thanks again ,
V.Sadagopan
Hi, It is a source of great pride to us all that the
work of Sri Vedanta Desikar (Paduka Sahasra), Rudrata (Kavya-Alankara), and
Ratnakara (Haravijaya), Dandin (Kavyadarsha) has recently drawn accolades
from one of the greatest computer scientists - Donald Knuth.
"... amazing wordplay,
(Explain) Desikar's achievement in detail, so
that many more people can appreciate the long and glorious history of
combinatorics. ..." Knuth Jan 2005.
Sri Vedanta Desikar, the great Srivaishnava
philosopher, had around 1300 A.D., made a great contribution to
Computer Science and Lingustics, by presenting the solution to the
famous Knight's tour problem, in the Paduka Sahasra, singing the
glories of Lord SitaRama's Sandals. Two succeeding sloka's in this work together
yield the solution to the knight's tour problem. One sloka is written
sequentially, and the other is read ALONG the path taken by the knight, yielding
the tour. There are many similar examples of amazing word jugglery in the Paduka
Sahasra. His work has sparked off interest in the
"Chittra-Kavya's" of India, wherein even earlier contributions - 9th
century - to the field have been very recently found, by Knuth (currently at
Oxford), David Smith and others. Knuth has made his own "Chitra-Kavya's", in
English. For more details please see the web page
at the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore:
We are in the process of further researching these
amazing contributions to computer science, and are contacting many in India and
abroad. For this, we require all the information you can provide,
especially about the origins of the "Chittra-Kavya's" in Sanskrit and other
languages. If you know of any similar slokas, and/or have access to
authoritative texts/references, etc, please let us know by email.
Regards
Prasanna
P.S. The Knight's tour problem is the problem of
making a knight go to all squares of a chessboard, without visiting any square
twice - a Hamilton journey.
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