Scholars at the Institute of Sanskrit Computational Linguistics have utilized a new deep-learning model to decipher fragmented 10th-century manuscripts found in the Deccan plateau. The texts, written in the Nandinagari script, contain a previously unknown treatise titled Chakra-Gati-Vijnana, which details the physics of motion with a specific focus on centrifugal force and its application in the engineering of high-speed potters' wheels and rotary grinders.
The manuscript provides geometric proofs for the relationship between rotational speed and the outward pressure exerted on clay during the shaping process. According to the research team, the text uses a vocabulary of "invisible outwards pull" to describe mechanical equilibrium. This discovery challenges the historical timeline of theoretical mechanics in South Asia, suggesting that medieval Indian artisans and scholars had formalized the mathematics of rotational dynamics long before the Industrial Revolution.