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In India, the science of prosody, had its beginnings in the Vedic period and has been held in high esteem, being regarded as a vedāṅga or a limb of the Veda. The earliest work on prosody was by Piṅgala which is generic and on which all the subsequent works are based. It is an amazing fact that this early work already deals with matters relating to problems of combinatorics. The main aim of this paper is to give a brief description of this work of Piṅgala and discuss in detail the mathematics arising out of it.
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Sridharan, R. (2005). Sanskrit Prosody, Piṅgala Sūtras and Binary Arithmetic. In: Emch, G.G., Sridharan, R., Srinivas, M.D. (eds) Contributions to the History of Indian Mathematics. Culture and History of Mathematics, vol 3. Hindustan Book Agency, Gurgaon. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-93-86279-25-5_2
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