O Lilavati Lullaby Of Mathematics Beauty Poem by Lovita Morang

O Lilavati, lullaby of mathematics

O Lilavati beauty, intelligent girl's duty
if you understand addition and subtraction,

Who asked you?
"tell me the sum of the amounts
2,5,32,193,18,10, and 100,
as well as the remainder of those
when subtracted from 10000."

O "Fawn-eyed child Līlāvatī, tell me,
how much is the number
The results 135 multiplied by 12,
if you understand multiplication
by separate parts and by separate digits.
And tell me beautiful one, who asked you
how much is that product divided by the same multiplier? "

O beauty Līlāvati
O liavati playful divine
Līlā = play divine quality
O beauty Lilavati
In shadow of the gnomon, the pearl is hidden
In pi 22/7 accuracy yet to yeild in Kuttaka
Oh here a more accurate ratio of 3927/1250
Here find the largest number in parardha,
one hundred thousand billion of stars stare

O Lilavati, your mathematics meets kings and elephants,
In a common man's smile.
Ah! That shall be the love you made
Pearls of necklace cast
A row of pearls roll
One sixth to the floor.
One fifth on the bed crawl
One tenth by her
One tenth by her lover.
six pearls stringed together
Yet, a search find the missing pearl
Lilavati, o intelligent girl
Serenades a maths
"Joy and happiness is indeed ever increasing in this world,
for those who have Lilavati,
Clasped to their throats,
decorated as the members are with neat reduction of fractions,
multiplication and involution,
pure and perfect as are the solutions,
and tasteful as is the speech, exemplified"
Once upon a time in India is now
about 850 years ago, is now
Still the stars that lilavati saw
The secrets of the stars, in depth of spaces

The king's weave mathematical riddles in his sword
Lilavati find depths of space in grass,
gaze at the stars glass palace,
Yet tricky moves of horses and elephants,
In Majestic games chess,
chasing the queen and pawns,
chest brave breast
Count numbers in depth of stars.
In her own world In labyrinth of numbers 1345
Meandered through mathematics
sensed of the world lullaby of mathematics

many questions in time she finds answer.
auspicious time the water-clock corrects her time.

Lilavati in red saree, jewels of stars stares into her curiosity,
The missing pearl hidden in her beauty.
O Lilavati beauty
O Lilavati lila=play divine quality
In the lullaby of mathematics
World made of starry starry beauty.

- Lovita J R Morang

Dedicated to India's great ancient mathematician Lilavati. Inspired by 9THNATIONAL SCIENCE FILM FESTIVAL, chandigarh.
#Lilavati
#Mathematics