This is the story of a french astronomer, stranded after missing the Venus transit, watches a Tamil Brahmin compute the December 1768 lunar eclipse in < 45 mins with cowries and palm-leaf booklets, matching the Paris ephemerides.
In 1768, a man named Nana Moutou walked into a French astronomer's house in Pondicherry and offered to compute an eclipse in front of him.
The astronomer was Guillaume Le Gentil of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Paris. He had come to India for the 1761 transit of Venus and was stuck at sea on the day.
He waited 8 years for the next one. On 3 June 1769, a single cloud covered the Sun at the exact moment. Nearly 10,000 leagues, he wrote, just to be "spectator of a fatal cloud".
Hidden inside the same book is a story nobody tells...
Le Gentil had been in Pondicherry barely 8 days when Nana Moutou came with an interpreter. Le Gentil asked for the total lunar eclipse of December 1768.
Next morning the man returned with a packet of palm leaves and a bag of cowrie shells. He sat on the floor, moved the shells with a singular speed, kept consulting his little booklet, and gave all the phases of the eclipse in less than three quarters of an hour.
Le Gentil checked the numbers against the French Ephemerides. They matched. He gave him more eclipses. Same result.
No pen. No paper. The shells were the counters, laid out on the ground.
The rules were verses recited from memory while working, the way Europeans use formulas. Once a step was done it was wiped away. And they rarely made mistakes, he writes.
Nana Moutou agreed to teach him, under strict secrecy. 4 months of hard work, he said, if the Frenchman had the aptitude.
Lessons at 4.30 every evening. Le Gentil changed interpreters 3x and got nowhere. In the end it took him more than a month, an hour a day, to compute a lunar eclipse.
His verdict: for lunar eclipses, the error in several he calculated never went > 25 minutes.
Sources: Le Gentil, Voyage dans les mers de l'Inde, Tome 1 (1779), pp. 40, 210-211
Photos: pages 210, 211 and 40 of the same 1779 edition, Imprimerie royale, scan via Internet Archive (Getty Research Institute copy), key lines highlighted
ஜப்பானிய மக்களும் உங்கள் இசையை மிகவும் நேசித்தார்கள்.🎹🖤
SUPERSTARタイトルカードや【バーシャ!】の音楽で知られる作曲家デーヴァ―さんが、昨日チェンナイの病院で亡くなりました。75歳でした。
心よりご冥福をお祈りいたします。
日本でもイベント時には毎回あなたの音楽で心を躍らせました。
昨日の【ジェイラー2】上映会でも、タイトルカードの音楽が鳴り響いた途端、館内は熱狂の空気にかわりました。
今もこれからも、インドでも日本でも、あなたの音楽は心の中で再生し続けることでしょう。
ラジニ様は昨日、デーヴァ―さんの自宅を訪れて最後のお別れをし、その後動画で思い出を語りました。
特に印象的だったのは、1999年の【パダヤッパ】にまつわるエピソードです。
デーヴァ―さんはそれ以前に【バーシャ】や【アルナーチャラム】などラジニ様主演の大ヒット作品を次々担当していました。
ところが、【パダヤッパ】ではAR.ラフマーン氏を起用することになり、ラジニは様はその決定を伝えることをためらっていたそうです。
しかし実際に説明すると、デーヴァ―さんは喜んで握手をし、「ラフマーン氏は新しく才能のある作曲家だから、ぜひ彼と仕事をしてください」と応じたそうです。
ラジニ様はその反応を振り返り、デーヴァ―さんは悪意も裏表もない、黄金のような心の持ち主だったと話しました。
デーヴァ―さんは別名"தேனிசைத் தென்றல்"(テーニサイ・テンドラル)と呼ばれています。
これは「甘美な音楽のそよ風」を意味します。
ラジニ様が語ったエピソードが曲にも転写されていたのか、力強い曲でもどこか甘美で優しい旋律を感じました。
それはラジニ様自身にも通じる部分がありそうです。
時代が進み作品の作曲者が交替しても、SUPERSTARのタイトルカードが今もなお変わらずに使われているのは、そこにも要因があるのかもしれません。
இன்றும், #Jailer2 திரைப்படத்தின் தொடக்கத்தில் நீங்கள் அமைத்த இசை கம்பீரமாக ஒலிக்கிறது.
இந்தியாவிலும் ஜப்பானிலும், இன்னைக்கும் என்னென்னைக்கும் உங்கள் இசை மக்களின் இதயங்களில் நிலைத்து நிற்கும்.
‘தேனிசைத் தென்றல்’ தேவா அவர்களே, உங்கள் ஆன்மா சாந்தியடையப் பிரார்த்திக்கிறோம்.
Veerendra Hegde is a Jain. Thats why he built this Gommateshwara statue in Dharmasthala.
His family has been taking care of Dharmasthala temple for the last 900 years as far known. It could be even more.
This means Dharmasthala was a Jain temple.
Actually, Mangaluru Manjunatha was a famous Tantrik/Illuminati teacher who was world famous.
I read about Manjunatha in a secret book in a secret Rosicrucian library in America. Everyone in the world knew him. In fact, Mangalore was called Manjunatha pura or Manjuran (in ancient pre-Islamic Arabic language) in his honor.
But in India, there is no information about him in any book. They have made Manjunatha = Shiva to hide all facts about him and his Tantrik teachings. Maybe his knowledge of magic was too powerful to handle or too dangerous if it gets into the wrong hands or maybe British Illuminati took it with them to America during British rule.
Kadri temple in Mangalore itself was his Tantrik school.
This Yogi Adityanath, the UP CM and his Nath Sampraday are actually his student descendants. Thats why Yogi Adityanath has an Ashram on top of Kadri Hill in Mangalore even today. The students have not left the school even though the school has been closed and converted to Hindu temple. If you climb the Kadri Hill, on top you can meet Yogi Adityanath's people even today in Mangalore.
@AvinashOra@ajayrotti@kushanmitra Correct .. these Commis live in delusion. He is no exception. Just because they hate democracy, nationalism, they assume whole country agrees with them. They live in lala land fooling their Chinese pay masters. Dirty scumbags.
@ajayrotti@kushanmitra I'm a voter from same constituency bangalore central when this moron contested. His campaigns were targeted only high end societies like shoba rose, Palm meadows, etc and banners all over bmtc busses. We slippered him thru voting and he lost his deposit.
The US right now has technology similar to what is said about Pushpaka Vimana. That is, a large object the size of a car can simply hover in the air forever without any rotor, aerodynamic, or engine based thrust (like helicopters, planes, and rockets respectively).
In the next decade, the world will be in awe as such technology is slowly revealed. Of course, with a UFO/Aliens hype in media for max psyops to have plausible deniability, yet confuse and scare the adversary.
Don't mock me for this post. I know what I'm talking about. Also know that some physics and maths we learn are redacted versions of extended knowledge some select institutions and few humans in them possess.
Which means if you have been programmed that Bitcoin is built on unbreakable encryption based on amazing math, you are being misled. It will be broken when it needs to be in an instant by the same who developed it and made the world adopt it.
Until then enjoy the party.
The amount of mental satisfaction I get whenever I see this video of Arnab roasting and toasting this terrorist MF Umar Khalid on live TV is unmatched.
How Hanz Zimmer Destroyed Film Scoring by Employing Several Ghost Composers from a Hollywood Film score Critic.
Give it a Read.இவன் தான் ராமாயணத்துக்கு முயுசிக் போடணும்னு யாரு இவன கூப்பிட்டது.
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It is not some "ancient civilizations." It is the one and only continuous, still existing Indian civilization that has done extraordinary work like this in every field. Also, as someone pointed out, it looks more like a flagellar motor than a turbine.