• DOI:10.1007/S10781-005-8175-6
Corpus ID: 170679879

Oral and Written Transmission of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit

@article{Yano2006OralAW,
  title={Oral and Written Transmission of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit},
  author={M. Yano},
  journal={Journal of Indian Philosophy},
  year={2006},
  volume={34},
  pages={143-160}
}

• M. Yano
• Published 2006
• Philosophy
• Journal of Indian Philosophy

The size of the four Vedas combined would be very close to that of the Old Testament, which is, in King James version, 3,720,000 bytes. One of the reasons of similarity may be that this much size was nearly maximum for an ordinary man to correctly memorize. In other words, the memory capacity of a person is about that of one floppy disk. Some extraordinary persons may have four floppy disk capacity – in ancient India such person might have been highly respected as caturvedin, ‘one who is versed… Expand