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AI-Driven Decipherment of 8th-Century 'Sharada' Script Fragments Unveils Lost Sanskrit Treatises on the Physics of Granular Flow in Ancient Grain Storage

📅 April 11, 2026 📰 ScienceDaily
AI-Driven Decipherment of 8th-Century 'Sharada' Script Fragments Unveils Lost Sanskrit Treatises on the Physics of Granular Flow in Ancient Grain Storage

Researchers at the Center for Digital Humanities have successfully used advanced neural networks to reconstruct and translate highly weathered 8th-century Sharada script fragments found in the high-altitude depots of the Kargil region. The manuscripts contain previously unknown Sanskrit theorems detailing the physics of granular flow and the mitigation of hydrostatic pressure in large-scale granary silos.

These texts provide a sophisticated mathematical framework for calculating the 'angle of repose' for different cereal grains and designing reinforced stone structures to prevent structural failure during seismic events. This discovery highlights a significant but previously undocumented application of Vedic mathematical principles to civil engineering and food security in medieval North India.

Original source: ScienceDaily