When challenged by Shukla, a mathematician and a historiographer of ancient Indian mathematics, to locate the sutras in the Parishishta of a standard edition of the Atharvaveda, Krishna Tirtha stated that they were not included in the standard editions but only in a hitherto-undiscovered version, chanced upon by him the foreword and introduction of the book also takes a similar stand. Shukla, Jan Hogendijk et al) note that the Vedas do not contain any of those sutras and sub-sutras. However, numerous mathematicians and STS scholars (Dani, Kim Plofker, K.S. Agrawala argues that since the Vedas are defined as the traditional repositories of all knowledge, any knowledge can be de facto assumed to be in the Vedas, irrespective of whether it may be physically located in them he even went to the extent of deeming Krishna Tirtha's work as a pariЕ›iб№Јб№a in itself. He does not provide any more bibliographic clarification on the sourcing. They were supposedly contained in the pariЕ›iб№Јб№a-a supplementary text/appendix-of the Atharvaveda. Source and relation with The Vedas ДЄccording to Krishna Tirtha, the sutras and other accessory content were found after years of solitary study of the Vedas-a set of sacred ancient Hindu scriptures-in a forest. The sutras and sub-sutras are abstract literary expressions ('as much less', 'one less than previous one' et al.) prone to creative interpretations Krishna Tirtha exploited this to the extent of manipulating the same shloka to generate widely different mathematical equivalencies across a multitude of contexts. Dani in ' Vedic Mathematics': Myth and Reality states that the book is primarily a compendium of tricks that can be applied in elementary, middle and high school arithmetic and algebra, to gain faster results. Tirtha stated that no part of advanced mathematics lay beyond the realms of his book and propounded that studying it for a couple of hours every day for a year equated to spending about two decades in any standardized education system to become professionally trained in the discipline of mathematics. The range of their asserted applications spans from topic as diverse as statics and pneumatics to astronomy and financial domains. The book contains metaphorical aphorisms in the form of sixteen sutras and thirteen sub-sutras, which Krishna Tirtha states alludes to significant mathematical tools.

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