Re:Katapayadi System
by DesiLurker on Saturday June 25, 2022 @12:37AM
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wasn't this the one where they had very accurate value of PI in a poem about lord krishna.
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Found 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-...
Not anything about Krishna. The Sadratnamala:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadratnamala
And it was intentional.
Re:Katapayadi System
by satish-setty on Saturday June 25, 2022 @03:30AM
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Yes, 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.