Indian Knowledge Systems:Adding Ātma to Ātmanirbhar Bhārath

A Young Scholar and an Ancient Knowledge Tradition Recently, I came across an inspiring account of Vrishavardhan Sharma of Bengaluru, a young scholar who has mastered the Bhagavad Gītā and Pāṇini’s Aṣṭādhyāyī, one of the most sophisticated works of Sanskrit grammar. Panini’s 4,000-year-old rules are widely regarded by computer scientists as the world’s first formal, context-free generative grammar — a direct ancestor of modern programming languages and natural language processing (NLP). Vrishvardhan treats that ancient system as living computational logic and applies it in software and…