chee-ri kli-sta sa-ma-sya-nu chee'-din-cha lee-mu
to fit my context better. Ramakrishna and Nasy garlu helped me to dig up
the history of this Su-bha-shi-taa-lu.
In High School I did not take Telugu (I took Sanskrit instead, and in those
days the Sanskrit program was very weak). I heard this poem from a classmate,
and it so impressed me that it remained in my memory all these days.
In this book I was also able to construct a home work exercise from Mahabharata.
I am also looking for other optimization exercises (with interesting stories)
from not only Indian but other classics, to include in the 2nd edition.
Let me say
nu-ta-na sam-va-tsa-ra san-kran-ti su-bha-kaan-ksha-lu
to all members of this very nice forum.
Katta Murty.
>>>> Ramakrishna S. Pillalamarri <pkrishna@ARL.MIL>
>>As Katta G. Murthy quoted in his book on
>>Operations Research (on a class of "unsolvable"
>>problems),
>
>> tiviri yisumuna tailambu deeya vaccu
>> tavili mRgatRshNalO neeru trAga vaccu
>> tirigi kundETi kommu sAdhimpa vaccu,
>> (kaanee)
>> cEri moorkhuni manasu ranjimpa rAdu!
>
>wow ! did he quote this telugu poem in his book ?
>He ought to be commended for it. How many books by
>Indian writers contain Indian examples anyway ?
>Not many I guess.
>
>How did I miss his poem when it was our prescribed
>text in the class !
>
>Madan