• In an analysis of mAtrA-vrittas - combinations that obtain certain

meters or mAtrAs, Virhanka analyzes a mixture of short (laghu)

and long (guru) syllables that appear in a meter.
• For example, the gAyAtri mantra contains \the string sa-vi-tur-va-
reN-yam, in which tur and reN are long or guru, the others being
short or laghu. Using G and L for guru and laghu, we can write this
meter as LLGLGL, which is the kernel of the famous gAyAtri
chhanda.
In the mAtrA-vritta analysis, G is taken to be twice as long as an L
syllable, and Virahanka considers the question: in how many ways
can we form meters of length n?

• The answer emerges as follows: L

• G, LL
• LG, GL, LLL
• GG, LLG, LGL, GLL, LLLL
• LGG, GLG, LLLG, GGL, LLGL, LGLL, GLLL, LLLLL
• Fibonacci Series
• Kapany was born in Moga and is of
Punjabi Sikh origin, he was educated in
England and has spent over 45 years in
the United States. He was named as
one of the seven 'Unsung Heroes' by
Fortune magazine in their ‘Businessmen
of the Century’ issue.He has received
many awards including 'The Excellence
2000 Award' from the USA Pan-Asian
American Chamber of Commerce in
1998.His work on V changed the entire
telecommunication industry.He is
regarded as The father of V...wats V??
• Optical Fibres
• This word is one of many words of
Indian origin that passed into common
English, or at least the British English
dialect of it, during the British Imperial
rule of India.As travellers at the time
would be part of a caravan, the term V
referred to the killing of a large number
of people in a single operation.There is
some question as to the extent of the
religious dimension of V. Most
contemporary sources described V as
being a religious cult but some modern
sources feel it was merely a specialised
form of organised crime or paramilitary
• Thug
• According to a legend, the birth of V was prophesized
by Pir Bhikan Shah, a fakir from Thaksa village (now in
Karnal District of Haryana).
One day, Bhikan Shah bowed towards the east
during his prayers, contrary to the standard Islamic
practice of bowing in the direction of Qibla. When the
villagers questioned his strange act, he stated that a
special child, the savior chosen by the God, would be
born in Patna, which lay to the East. He then traveled
to Patna with a group of his followers to see the child.
He placed two bowls of sweets before the newborn;
one bowl was purchased from a Hindu's shop, and the
second from a Muslim's shop, thus signifying the two
major contemporary religions in India. The baby
placed his hands on both the bowls, thus indicating
that both Hindus and Muslims will be treated equally
by him. According to another legend, the fakir Araf Din
of Lakhnaur (now in Ambala District) also bowed to the
boy, and proclaimed him as divine
• Guru Gobind Singh
• every year beginning on paush
poornima and ending on basant
panchami malajpur village in MP
becomes populated with about
65,000 to 100000 people turning up
for the fair.This fair is being held for
the past 250 years and is regarded
as the biggest fair
pertaining.............id fair
• Bhoot Mela
• He started his career as a wicketkeeper, playing
for cricket clubs (including his college team)
and had once made a double-century.He joined
his father's firm
• and made it into one of India's top construction
firms. His firm constructed Calcutta's M.P.Birla
Planetarium in 1963.He joined his father's firm
• and made it into one of India's top construction
firms. His firm constructed Calcutta's M.P.Birla
Planetarium in 1963.In 2005 he was awarded
the International Journal of the History of Sports
Achievement award for administrative
excellence in global sport.On March 26, 2008,
he was arrested in connection with
misappropriation of funds and later released on
bail.Id
• Jagmohan Dalmiya
• V was born as Srivastava. His father
Sharada Prasad was a poor school teacher.
When V was three months old, he slipped
out of his mother's arms into a cowherd's
basket at the ghats of the Ganges. The
cowherd, who had no children, took the
child as a gift from God and took him home.
His parents lodged a complaint with the
police, who traced the child, and returned
him to his parents.
• While in Varanasi, the boy once went with
his friends to see a fair on the other bank of
the Ganges. On the way back he had no
money for the boat fare. Instead of
borrowing from his friends, he jumped into
• In 1927, V married Lalita Devi of Mirzapur. In spite of the prevailing hefty
dowry tradition, V accepted only a charkha and a few yards of khadi as
dowry. In 1930, he threw himself into the freedom struggle during Mahatma
Gandhi's Salt Satyagraha. He was imprisoned for two and a half years.
Once, while he was in prison, one of his daughters fell seriously ill. He was
released for fifteen days, on the condition that he not take part in the
freedom movement. However, his daughter died before he reached home.
After performing the funeral rites, he voluntarily returned to prison, even
before the expiry of the period. A year later, he asked for permission to go
home for a week, as his son had contracted influenza. The permission was
given, but his son's illness was not cured in a week. In spite of his family's
pleadings, he kept his promise to the jail officers and returned to the prison
• V served as the Minister of Railways and Transport in the Central Cabinet
for independant India. In 1956, he offered his resignation after a railway
accident at Mahbubnagar it led to 112 deaths. However, Nehru did not
accept his resignation. Three months later, he resigned accepting moral
and constitutional responsibility for a railway accident at Ariyalur in Tamil
Nadu that resulted in 144 deaths. While speaking in the Parliament on the
incident, the then Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, stated that he was
accepting the resignation because it would set an example in constitutional
propriety and not because Shastri was in any way responsible for the
accident[3]. V's unprecedented gesture was greatly appreciated by the
citizens.He was the first person to be posthumously awarded the Bharat
Ratna,
Lal Bahadur Shastri
• V was a legendary figure of Indian motorsports. Apart from being a
successful formula car racer, was also a designer and constructor
of several formula cars, his most famous design being the Formula
Maruti open wheeled race car. His low cost cars helped other
racers,to their entry into motorsports. A wealthy industrialist, he
was later killed in an air crash, aged 41.One of his early complete
in-house designs was the 300 BHP Formula Monoposto based on
the Formula Atlantic Chevron B40 model nicknamed “Black
Beauty”. But until the late 80's, motorsports was only for wealthy
drivers. In an effort to make racing more affordable in India and
improve grassroots level racing he designed and tested a small
single seater, dubbed as India's Formula Ford, with a Maruti 800
engine, and adapting easily available parts, sometimes made in-
house. His second design was a two seater car named McDowell
1000 using a Maruti Gypsy 1.0 liter engine.Later years saw future
national champions making their debut races in a Formula Maruti
series,He died on 24th of August 1995 while flying a Puspak
trainers aircraft. The purpose of flying was to log some additional
flying time as required to retain his flying license. The accident
was widely mourned by the racing sceneHis demise almost
created a vacuum in Indian Motorsports with dwindling crowds in
the Chennai track and after the 1997 season made the MMSC
scrap the All India Grand Prix Meet altogether.A small airstrip in
• Sundaram Karivardhan---aka Kari