Interesting. Ayyangar's article refers to Aryabhata's system of numbers & so does the earier article on Panini from Pakistan. This system where a combination of consonants & vowels ( vargas for even places & avargas for odd place) from the varna-mala/ akshara ( k, kh, g, etc.) generates a "number" ensures that alphabets (not literally i.e., not aliph, be, pay & its related script-wise ! ) double up as numbers & there is no need for specific symbols to represent numbers ( literally , i.e. 0, 1, 2, 3 etc & related script-wise. are redundant). Summarizing this, JF Fleet wrote a paper in 1911 titled " Aryabhatta's System of Expressing Numbers" for Royal Asiatic Society. Its finally been digitized & I note a weblink in the reference section of this wiki. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%80ryabha%E1%B9%ADa_numeration ). This Aryabhatta system is the key to linking Maths & Music. If you spend 30 mts reading this, and then spend another 30 mts reading the MELAKARTA & KATAPAYADI wiki pages, you can write the notation for any Indian classical music Raga ( all 72 ! ). Infact, one can ONLY read the world's oldest text of mathematics ( Bakhshali manuscript - also found near Panini's taxila region ), after understanding what JF Fleet labled Aryabhatta's system of expressing numbers. Check it out. Opens a new world. A musical world where every sound has an associated number. Of course, we all have our individual points of deafness/infinity somewhere between 20 Hz to 20000 Hz.

Yusuf Firoz

Click the links in the article- will lead to amazing revelations..

Why Mythic society ?

The Mythic Society: Of the pioneering institutions in India devoted to Indological studies, the Mythic Society has a pride of place. It was founded in 1909 by a small group of Europeans who had settled in Bangalore and interested in understanding Indian life and culture. The idea was the brain-child of F.J. Richards, the then Collector of the Bangalore Cantonment and Father Rev Tabard The Society was started on 5th May 1909 in a meeting held in his residence. To start with it had just seventeen members. Of these S.Krishnaswamy Iyengar, who later became Professor, of History in Central College, Madras University and Prof B.Venkatanarayanappa, were the only Indian members. Dr. Morris Travers, the first Director of the Indian Institute of Science (which was also taking shape just then), was the first President. Father Tabard was the Vice- President; the next year became president and continued in the forthcoming years for 6 years (Father Tabard, a Frenchman and parish priest of St. Patrick’s Church.) The aims of the society, as entered in the statutes, are “encouragement of study in history, ethnology, archaeology, traditions and religions in South India, Epigraphy, folklore etc and the stimulation of research in these and allied subjects and to hold at least nine lectures in each year and publishing two or three papers read in these in the Quarterly Journal”. Conducting excursions of members to historical places was also one of its programmes. http://bit.ly/1GX2HKG

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आओ सलाम करे उनको;जिनके हिस्से में ये मुकाम आता है;खुशनसीब होता है वो खून जो देश के काम आता है! आप सभी को गणतंत्र दिवस की हार्दिक शुभकामनाए

george gheevergheese's book on ancient mathmatician os Malabar Kerala is "thecrest of peacock' which reveals brahmadatha and madhava. A book "ganitha keralam" on these eminent ancient personalities including achutha pisharody and neelakanta somayaji is available