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Kumudendu Muni
Overview
Kumudendu Muni (Around 840 CE) was a Jain Digambar monk and polymath from Karnataka, India. He is traditionally credited with the authorship of the Siribhoovalaya, a literary and scientific work written entirely in Kannada numerals. This work is believed to encode content across multiple Indian languages, disciplines, and philosophical systems using intricate mathematical grids and cipher techniques. The Siribhoovalaya is believed to contain valuable information about a wide range of subjects including mathematics, chemistry, physics, metallurgy, astronomy, medicine, history, and even space travel. Kumudendu's work covers topics related to religion, science, literature, and cryptology, although much of it remains undeciphered.
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To this the three qualities, goodness, passion, and darkness, are attributed; the further attributes of these determinations may be very interesting, but they are understood in a very superficial way. For it is said that nature operates through the admixture of these three qualities; each thing has all three within itself, like three streams which flow together; it also works by means of modifications, just as water…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
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Instructed in the sciences of the ancient Chaldeans, he understood the principles of natural philosophy, such as they were then supposed to be; and knew as much of metaphysics as hath ever been known in any age, that is, little or nothing at all. He was firmly persuaded, notwithstanding the new philosophy of the times, that the year consisted of three hundred and sixty-five days and six hours, and that the sun was…
Voltaire, Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume
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Even in the cases most favourable to them, the priesthood had no voice in temporal affairs, except the "consultative" voice which M. Comte's theory allows to every spiritual power. His collection of materials must have been unusually "rapid" in this instance, for he regards almost all the societies of antiquity, except the Greek and Roman, as theocratic, even Gaul under the Druids, and Persia under Darius…
John Stuart Mill, Auguste Comte and Positivism
Close in meaning to Kumudendu Muni; the term itself is not named.
Related ideas
- History
- Jainism
- Guru
- Karnataka
- Mathematics
- Medicine
- Mahabharata
- Physics
- Prakrit
- Polymath
- Science
- Space
- Sanskrit
- Tamil language
- Kannada
- Telugu language
- Ramayana
- Astronomy
- Chemistry
- Jain cosmology
- Digambara
- Siribhoovalaya
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