Vowels and Numerals continued...

LESSON 3

In the last class we learnt how to read, pronounce and write two vowels in Sanskrit
              उ and 
             ऊ 

We learnt a few more Sanskrit Numbers.

             ४ चत्वारि (Chatvari)

             ५ पञ्च (Pancha)

             ६ षट (Shat)

Now for some Fun/ Trivia

There is a legend about a temple in Benares which contains a large room with three time-worn posts in it surrounded by 64 golden disks. Brahmin priests, acting out the command of Brahma, have been moving these disks, in accordance with the rules of the puzzle, since the time the earth was created. The puzzle is therefore known as the Tower of Brahma puzzle. According to the legend, when the last move of the puzzle is completed, the world will end. The puzzle was popularized to the world by the French mathematician Édouard Lucas in 1883.  It is not clear whether Lucas invented this legend or was inspired by it. He named it the Tower of Hanoi.

The Tower of Brahma or Tower of Hanoi is a mathematical game or puzzle. It consists of three rods, and a number of disks of different sizes which can slide onto any rod. The puzzle starts with the disks in a neat stack in ascending order of size on one rod, the smallest at the top, thus making a conical shape.

The objective of the puzzle is to move the entire stack to another rod, obeying the following rules:

• Only one disk may be moved at a time.
• Each move consists of taking the upper disk from one of the rods and sliding it onto another rod, on top of the other disks that may already be present on that rod.
• No disk may be placed on top of a smaller disk.

If the legend is true, and if the priests were able to move disks at a rate of one per second, using the smallest number of moves, it would take them 2⁶⁴−1 seconds or roughly 585 billion years; it would take 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 turns to finish.



There are many variations on this legend. For instance, in some tellings, the temple is a monastery and the priests are monks. The temple or monastery may be said to be in different parts of the world — including Hanoi, Vietnam, and may be associated with any religion. In some versions, other elements are introduced, such as the fact that the tower was created at the beginning of the world, or that the priests or monks may make only one move per day. 

If you want to have fun playing the game, check this link out and have some fun. http://www.mazeworks.com/hanoi/index.htm

Homework:
1) Practice one page each of the alphabets उ and ऊ . Remember to pronounce each word while writing.
2)  Practice writing the numerals ४, ५ and ६ at least 25 times each.