CALCULATION EXTRAORDINARY.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 8009, 23 March 1888, Page 3

CALCULATION EXTRAORDINARY.

Under the above lieml The Thcosophist publishes ii remarkable communication fiom the Nagpui Branch Theosopical Society, narrating the performance of P.indit Narny.ui Martnnd Sukhatine, who is described as one of the greatest intellectual proilisics of ilio age. Proceeding eoninienceil by the Theosopieal Brother, Mr C. Shieenivas Rao, Naidu Gam, consecutively reading, once for all, the following paper of questions to the Pundit :— 1. Find the square root of 1106704. 2. Kind the culm root of 29503629. 3. Find tho fourth root of 90039601. 4. Find the fifth root of 1419557. ">. Find the squ.ire of 1009. 0. Firnl the fourth power of 29. 7. Additioi of squares of Nos. from 5 to 14 both terms ineulsive. 8. Adililion of cube* of Noa. from 8 to 13 both terms incliiMve. 9. Multiply 78847 by SSO3. 10. Multiply 249939999975 by.looloolol. *11. (iive the hnglinli year, month and date corresponding to theSth Magha of the increasing Moon of the year 1752 of Salivahana. *12. Give the week clay corresponding to the 10th August,' 1832. 13. Divide 28594545 ly 123. 14. Find the simple interest on 5376 for 16 years it 3 per cent. 15. 6a; — ly - 42 ; lx - 6.y = In. When the Pundit had taken into his head the questions thus read to him, i.e., when the reading of tho question paper was over, Mr Kxtra. Assistant Commissioner Kambhaji lino began to play cards with the Pundit. While playing cards, certain members of thu meeting went on conversing with the Pundit, and further proposed to the Pundit various questions, including quefetions in arithmetic, which involved operations of addition, subtraction, &c. All thencvivA voce questions were immediately answered by tiie Pundit in the midst of the card-playing. The card-playing was over in about half-an-hour, the Pundit winning the yame (as he is ever said to do). The Pundit then delivered consecutively the following correct answers to 14 of the 15 questions contained in the paper of questions that had been read .to him before the commencement of the cardplaying :— Question. Auswer. 1. 10,")2 2. 309 3. 99 4. 17 r>. 10180S1 (>. 707281 7. 985 8. ■ 7407 !1. 094090141 10. 2c"02502524749749747r> 11. 21 st January, 1831 12. Friday , 13. 231915 14. 4116

* N.B.— Thoae two questions were proposed ' by tho president himself.

The missing of the answer to the last of the 15 questions proposed, was, however, more than compensated for, by the Pundit then and there extemporising a feat still more wonderful than any that had been till then announced. This feat consisted in the Pundit's pointing out in a pack of 40 or 50 cards, the particular card which I had mentally selected. The like cardidentification was made by the Pundit in respect of the mental selections of some others also of the assembled friends. " Ashtauasa - Avad - hanam " or simultaneous attention to eighteen difficult mental operations, was this complately achieved.