Chinmaya International Foundation

Shodha Sansthan
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About CIF
Chinmaya International Foundation (CIF), established

Category under which fees paid

in 1989, is a research centre for the advanced study in

Sanskrit and Indology. It is a cross-cultural forum for

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A 7-day Residential &

Textual Workshop on

the exchange of knowledge. Swami Chinmayananda,

founder of the Chinmaya Mission, visualized CIF as a

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bridge between East and West, science and spirituality,

of Ernakulam. Originally known as Melpazhoor Mana,

Lilavati

and named by Swami Chinmayananda as Adi Sankara

From April 16 to 22, 2014

past and present, and the pundit and the public. CIF is

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located at the birth place of Adi Sankaracharya at

Veliyanad in Kerala, which is about 30 kms from the city

On Bank
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Bhaskaracharya's

Nilayam, this is the home of Aryamba, the holy mother

* Demand Draft/Cheques to be drawn in favour of Chinmaya
International Foundation Shodha Sansthan payable at Piravom.

of Adi Sankara. Set in Kerala's lush green and sylvan

beauty amidst sacred shrines and water ponds, Adi
Sankara Nilayam has an ambience that is at once

Adi Sankara Nilayam

at
(maternal home and birth place of Sri Sankaracharya)

academic and divine.

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For further details, contact:

www.chinfo.org/lilavati

Dr. Ambika: +91-9595257179

Vinay Nair: +91-9820509484
Chinmaya International Foundation Shodha Sansthan
Adi Sankara Nilayam
Veliyanad, Ernakulam - 682 313, Kerala
Phone & Fax: +91-484-2747104
E-mail: cifss@chinfo.org
Online Registration:

www.chinfo.org/lilavati

Chinmaya International Foundation Shodha Sansthan

Recognised as Shodha Sansthan (Centre for Excellence in Sanskrit Research)
by Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, Govt. of India; Research Centre by
Mahatma Gandhi University and Indira Gandhi National Open University;
Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (SIRO)
by Dept. of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), Govt. of India

Aim of the Workshop

10. Brahmagupta's Geometry

To discuss in detail Bhaskara II's famous treatise

11. Commentaries on Lilavati

Lilavati and the history and development of

12. History and Development of Indian mathematics

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mathematics in ancient India.

Research Scholar

Faculty
About Lilavati

Er. Venugopal Heroor is a retired Civil Engineer and has

Lilavati is a treatise on mathematics by the Indian

been working in the field of ancient Indian mathematics

mathematician Bhskara II, written in 1150. It is the

for over 25 years. He has authored several books in

first volume of his main work Siddhanta Shiromani,

English and Kannada on ancient Indian mathematics and

or "Crown of treatises," alongside Bijaganita,

presented several papers in Conferences across India. He

Grahaganita and Goladhyaya. The book contains

is a unique blend of an excellent scholar and a wonderful

thirteen chapters, mainly definitions, arithmetical

teacher who can go down to school-level teaching.

Student

Overseas Participant

Vinay Nair, Head, School of Vedic Maths - Being an

geometry, the shadow of the gnomon, the kuttaka -

enthusiastic educator, trainer and motivational speaker,

a method to solve indeterminate equations, and

Vinay Nair has been imparting the knowledge of Vedic

combinations.

Maths since 2009. He started the School of Vedic Maths

Lilavati includes a number of methods of computing

with the aim to not only teach techniques but also to

numbers such as multiplications, squares, and

facilitate analytical thinking. He conducts courses,

progressions, with examples using kings and

workshops, camps and seminars on Vedic Maths in

elephants, objects which a common man could

educational institutions across India. He has developed

understand.

content for CIF's Home Study Course on Vedic

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Mathematics. He has authored a book, 'The Teacher who

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Taught us to Think', on the teaching methods to make

1. Arithmetic

Maths interesting.

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2. Geometry
3. Mensuration

Course Fee

4. Permutations & Combinations

Students ` 2500/US$ 75

5. Progressions

Others ` 3000/US$ 100

6. Rule of three

All camp delegates are requested to arrive at the venue

7. Non-routine problems from Lilavati

on the 15th April. Workshop inauguration will be at 10am

8. Fractions

on 16th April. Return journey to be planned after 1 pm on

9. Quadratic Equations

22nd April.

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terms, interest computation, arithmetical and

geometrical progressions, plane geometry, solid

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