Computational models have come to dominate many areas of enquiry whether in fluid mechanics, neuroscience, finance, etc. What is less known is the salience of computational thinking in the construction of knowledge in India for a good part of recorded history. The principle of ‘drgganitaikya’, applied very early on the discipline of observational astronomy, refers to the concordance between observations and computations (drk+ganita+aikya). The Indic position may not have received due recognition due to the dominance of the paradigm of deductive mathematics amongst historians of mathematics.

The present volume showcases how drgganitaikya or “computational positivism” in the Indic tradition has guided the development of knowledge in astronomy, linguistics, logic, mathematics, music, prosody, etc. The scholarly papers in this volume have been carefully chosen to communicate the power, soundness, wide applicability and continued relevance of this approach.

The volume provides a unique and deep insight into the unifying epistemology of knowledge construction in the Indic tradition and will be of considerable interest to scholars and students as well as to the general audience.