Contents: 1. Presidential address/Badrinarayanan. 2. Unfolding the ancient Indian engineering marvels: lessons from one millennium old tallest building/T. Satyamurthy. 3. Interpreting regional culture: usage of epigraphic and literary data (with special reference to Maharashtra)/Anuradha K. Ranade. 4. Traditional boat building techniques (with special reference to Tamil Nadu coast)/P. Jayakumar. 5. A study of astronomical elements at the Vidyasankara Temple, Sringeri/Priya Thakur. 6. A rare Chola legend coin/Natana Kasinathan. 7. Inscriptions of Keshavaji Nayak's family/Mrinal Joshi. 8. Living megalithic culture amongst the Gonds of Bastar region, Chhattisgarh: insight from ethnographic tradition/Tirtharaj Bhoi. 9. An analytical study of temples at Attalainallur and Idakkal/S. Saroja. 10. Tattoo : an ancient Indian body art/Swapna Samel. 11. Study of temple inscriptions from Trissur/Remya V.P. 12. Saptamatrika panel at Parankunram cave temple--new discovery/M. Nalini. 13. Rajarajisvaram/R. Akila. 14. Megalithic potteries from Perungulattur/M. Gandhi. 15. Karnataka's trans-oceanic contacts during the Vijayanagara period/P.N. Narasimha Murthy. 16. Microlithic sites in Thoothukudi district/S. Murugavel. 17. Recent explorations in Hagari basin (Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka)/Yogesh Mallinathpur M. 18. Tulasi 1-Elixir of life in Vaishnava 2 Mythology and in arts (reference to Hindu classical texts and visual sources)/Jayalakshmi Yegnaswamy. 19. Stress management, a by-product of Chittavrittinirodha/V. Suparna. 20. A Brahmi inscription from Aurad/D.M. Nagaraju. 21. Brahmi and megalithic culture/M.D. Sampath. 22. The ancient mercantile activities and culture of the globe with emphasis on Indian sub-continent/P. Mathumathi. 23. The concept of Lakshmi in epigraphs/M.D. Sampth. 24. Recursive algorithm for binary multiplication using Vedic mathematics/K.M. Ramesh Kumar. 25. Deeper roots of discrete mathematics in ancient India/K. Velukutty. 26. Inscriptions from Kilappavur--an overview/S. Parvathi. 27. The artistic and the epigraphical wealth of Tiruchchengodu Temple/A. Suguneswari. 28. Economic terms from inscriptions/M.D. Sampath. 29. A note on early Tamil Mathematician, Aryabhata/N. Mohana Sorubha Sundari. 30. Weights and measures from Tamil epigraphs/T. Santhi. 31. Ancient beads and coins from Chebrolu/D. Raja Reddy. 32. Astronomical significance noticed in Kerala inscriptions/V. Ramamani. 33. Trade and urbanisation in Tamilnadu/S. Kayarkanni. 34. Super edge-magic labeling of Chaturanga turanga bandha (Knight's tour) and palindromic verses/N. Manorama. 35. A note on the two exchange grants of early medieval Orissa/Subrata Kumar Acharya. 36. Commercial activities from the coromandel coast to the south-east Asian countries, 1000-1500 A.D./V. Palanichamy. 37. Gitagaurivaram : a rare manuscript/G.V. Kallapura. 38. Super edge magic labeling of Chitrakavyas/N. Pankaja and N. Leelavathy. 39. Mathematical mountain structure in Subhashita Nivi/N. Kannan. 40. Buddhist fraternity and their patrons in Western India (200 BC - 250 AD)/Anuradha Kishor Ranade.
This volume includes the articles presented on the occasion of the Fourth National Conference on Ancient Sciences and Archaeology held from 21st to 22nd July, 2010 at Kongu Arts and Science College, Erode.. Scholars from different parts of the country took part in the academic deliberations and presented papers on various topics of ancient sciences and archaeology. It was aimed at the interactions of the scholars on different issues and the recent researches done in the field of archaeology, ancient mathematics, ancient physics, archaeological chemistry, ancient medicine, ancient metallurgy. Ancient engineering, ancient biology, ancient economics and commerce, epigraphy, history, numismatics, onomastics, computer analysis of ancient data, science in Vedic literature, Sanskrit and other languages, literature, etc. (jacket)
