Issue 95 - Supersutras

Vedic Mathematics Newsletter No. 95


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This issue’s article is “Supersutras” by Kenneth Williams.



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ARTICLE for VM Newsletter 95
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Supersutras

In his book “Vedic Mathematics” Sri Bharati Krishna Tirthaji describes the sixteen basic sutras and shows many applications of them. Sometimes however two or more sutras are used together to achieve some result. For example, to find 7158 divided by 166 we may apply ‘Proportionately’ and ‘Vertically and Crosswise’. That is, halve these numbers, and find 3579 divided by 83. This makes the calculation easier.

In finding the Highest Common Factor of two expressions Bharati Krishna invokes three sutras: ‘By Alternate Elimination and Retention’, ‘By Addition and by Subtraction’ and ‘The First by the First and the Last by the Last’. These together achieve the required result.
In these examples (and there are many others in Tirthaji’s book) we have a single result, acquired by the operation of two or more Sutras. This is a sort of higher level Sutra application in which a more sophisticated mathematical result is obtained. We could call the application of two or more Sutras, used in combination to achieve a specific result, a Supersutra.
Take the simple process of plotting a point on a graph. We have the coordinates, say (5,2), and we want to locate the point indicated by them on a graph. We take the 5 first and deal with the 2 later (this is ‘By Alternate Elimination and Retention’). We count (‘By One More than the One Before’) 5 units, or locate (‘By Mere Observation’) the 5 on the horizontal axis. We then take the 2 and do the same thing on the vertical axis (‘Transpose and Apply’). This fixes the point which we can then plot. Maybe you can see more Sutras at work here.
We see several sutras operating here, but one result: we have plotted a single point. ‘Plotting a Point’ we could say is a Supersutra. We cannot say that there is a single Sutra for plotting a point as several are involved. Similarly the process of finding the Highest Common Factor would be a Supersutra.
We could take this further because plotting a point may be part of a greater activity: maybe we are constructing a complex shape requiring many plotted points. We may wish to combine two or more Supersutras together. Could we also call this a Supersutra or do we need another name for a combination of Supersutras?
Just as the dancer or acrobat can combine a sequence of actions that form a pleasing whole, starting and ending in rest, so the mind can combine basic mental actions to perform more intricate ones.
And in chemistry we have the basic elements which combine and create more complex structures called molecules and those molecules themselves can combine. So in mathematics we have sixteen operational elements which can combine to create more elaborate operational structures.
Perhaps, by starting with a combination of two or more Sutras a new mathematical technique could be discovered, or even a new or hitherto unrecognized mental process.

Kenneth Williams
Newsletter Editor

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