{"id":60965,"date":"2026-05-16T07:33:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T07:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=60965"},"modified":"2026-05-16T07:39:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T07:39:35","slug":"in-the-early-stages-of-my-program-development-i-came-across-an-unknown-term-sparsa-jyakkal-in-ganita-nirnayam-a-12-page-table-giving-math-values-for-every-5-degrees-i-thought-i-had-to-create-a-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=60965","title":{"rendered":"In the early stages of my program development, I came across an unknown term Sparsa Jyakkal   in Ganita NIrnayam. A 12 page table giving math values for every 5 degrees. I thought I had to create a data file for the 12 page data . It will be a killer in terms of time and it will take me one weeks work. So I wanted to crack the code of the table,. I put sine and i didnt get true values. I put cos and again the same result. So I i put tan and it clicked  ! Those were The Tan tables of Brahmagupta , and he had given tan values for every 5 degrees,. Spars jya = tan x and Sparsa chapa = a tanx"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Explanation of Kepler&#039;s 3rd Law\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hi7c5Lwh-h4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60965"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60970,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60965\/revisions\/60970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}