{"id":10107,"date":"2011-05-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/05\/05\/a-japanese-sanskrit-lover-and-mathematician-in-kerala\/"},"modified":"2011-05-05T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T12:00:00","slug":"a-japanese-sanskrit-lover-and-mathematician-in-kerala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/05\/05\/a-japanese-sanskrit-lover-and-mathematician-in-kerala\/","title":{"rendered":"A Japanese Sanskrit Lover and Mathematician In Kerala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyindia.com\/show\/434006.php\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PANJAL, KERALA, April 9, 2011 (Daily India): Michio Yano, a professor of Sanskrit and Indian cultural history at Japan&#8217;s Kyoto Sangyo University, attended Athirathram being held in Panjal village in Kerala. He attended the 3000-year old vedic ritual to collect input for his new book in Japanese titled &#8216;Inspiration of Indian Mathematics&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There will be a chapter on most ancient mathematics and that started at Athirathram, with the Shianachitthi. I have read a great deal about it, but wanted to visit Athirathram to see it with my own eyes. Everything I have read, I have seen here, and I am happy,&#8221; said Professor Yano.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Yano is fascinated with &#8216;Surbasutra&#8217; which involves using ropes for measurement and construction of sacrificial altars. He referred to a chapter from the book where he explains how the shianachitthi, the bird-shaped main altar for Athirathram is very algorithmic in nature. From the basic square shape emerges many patterns and shapes such as triangles, parallelograms and hexagons, he explains. He also observed the measurement of chitthi is done with extreme mathematic accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Yano said: &#8220;What matters is that despite all the outward changes brought about by technology and modern life that one may see, the core of the ritual remains the same in Panjal Athirathram.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source PANJAL, KERALA, April 9, 2011 (Daily India): Michio Yano, a professor of Sanskrit and Indian cultural history at Japan&#8217;s,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}