A new research project utilizing hyperspectral imaging has uncovered a hidden layer of text on 9th-century Kutila script palimpsests stored in a private monastery library in Sikkim. The underlying text is a lost Sanskrit treatise on Hydrostatic Equilibrium, detailing advanced principles of water pressure and buoyant stability in non-linear containers, such as ritual cauldrons and irrigation sluices.
Scholars from the Asian Manuscript Digitization Project state that the text includes complex mathematical proofs for calculating the displacement of fluids in irregular volumes. This discovery significantly alters the historical understanding of ancient Indian mechanical engineering, proving that theoretical physics was being applied to practical hydraulic systems long before the medieval period.