Honorable Professor Wright, Dr. Peter Flughel, senior scholars like Dr. Hampanagra Jaya, so many faculty members of SOAS and research scholars and the professors came from India and friends. The topic of my today's lecture is newly discovered Jain mathematical manuscripts and they are contained. It is connected with three things, Jainism, mathematics and manuscript. Jainism, there is no need to introduce Jainism because the conference organized by the Jain Center. Mathematics, I am a man of mathematics and in ancient India, a branch of knowledge comes in the category of physical sciences. In ancient India, it was a part of astronomy but nowadays it is very vast and varied, having several branches itself. And manuscript, a handwritten document, at least 75 years old, that has significant scientific, historical or aesthetic values. It may be written on any material, stone, paper, cloth, wood, leather, brick bar or palm leaf. So my topic is related with the three things. I will try to make the justice with all the three things because it is related with the mathematics and Jainism both. So there is a class of the studies which is known as Jain School of Mathematics. So, mathematics, question arise, what is Jain mathematics? Mathematics found in Jain chronicle literature or in the literature written by Jainacharyas or Jain scholars is known as Jain School of Mathematics or simply Jain mathematics. It is a part of the Indian mathematics, hence we can call it Jain School of Indian Mathematics. It is included in major class history of mathematics. So some people ask me a question. What is Jain mathematics? It is arithmetic, algebra, geometry. We know the branch of the mathematics, analysis, pure mathematics, applied mathematics, which is Jain mathematics. So this is clarification that it is not a branch of the mathematics. Of course, according to American Mathematical Society classification, it comes under the major class history of mathematics. When it came into picture, before 1929, no one knows the word Jain School of Mathematics. The first paper on Jain School of Mathematics was written by Professor B. Bidat in Bulletin of Calcutta Mathematical Society. And first time he used the word Jain School of Mathematics. But Jain School of Mathematics came into picture without the name in 1908, when Professor David E. Janismith, a well-known historian of mathematics, produced a paper, Ganesh Sarsangra of Mahavira Charya. And a lecture was given in Rome and it is published in Bibliotheca Mathematica. Ganesh Sarsangra, which is very popular and known text of Jain School of Mathematics, published by Madras Government in 1912 with English translation of M. Rangacharya and it's Hindi translation by L. C. Jain appeared in 1963. Nowadays, the Kannada and Telugu translation are also available. So in this way, Jain School started to function in 1912, but the term coined in 1929. Now why it should be studies? People say why you are giving such emphasis on the studies of mathematics? Acharya Shri Mahaprakya says that without the knowledge of the mathematics, no one can do justice with the Jain philosophical mathematics. And the reason is, according to Digambar classification, subject-wise classification, the entire Jain literature can be classified in four part, Prathmaniyog, Karananyog, Charananyog and Dravyaniyog. According to Shwetama tradition, which is almost the same, the classification is Dharam-Kathanyog, Charan-Kandanyog, Gnithanyog and Dravyaniyog. So sections which are underlined, means Kandanyog and Dravyaniyog and according to Shwetama tradition, Kandanyog and the Gartanyog are full of mathematics. Regarding 72 arts, 72 arts, a reference of Gnith is found in Bhagwati Sutra, Lehiyao Ganiya Pahanao means script, et cetera, but full of mathematics, that indicates the importance of mathematics in Jain Quranic literature. Mahaviracharya's Gani Sarasangra is a very popular text and in that very text in first chapter, he writes, Bhau Bhirvi Pralapai Kim Trailog Ke Sacharacharya Yatkin Chidastu Teinatam Gani Tein Nahin, means what is good of saying much in vain, whatever there is in all the three words which are possessed of moving and non-moving things, all that in it cannot exist as apart from mathematics. Now, what is the purpose of developing mathematics in Jainism? Now, question arise why the persons giving so much important and the ancient Jain arts areas giving so much importance in importance to mathematics and what is their purpose? The purpose is broadly we can write some points that is to explain cosmological details and the description of the three-fold universe. It is used in giving the length, area and volume of the different section of this three-fold universe because the cosmological studies cannot be made without the knowledge of the mathematics. So for cosmology, cosmography and the cosmogony, the knowledge of the mathematics is essential. The text like Suri Pragyapti, Chanda Pragyapti, Jambudi Pragyapti, Tiloe Parnati, Dhavala, Treloksar, Jambudi Parnati, Sangho, et cetera, cannot be studied without the knowledge of the mathematics. Therefore, first purpose is to explain the cosmological details. The second is to explain different types of, different types and subtypes of the karmas, their operation of the uprising, binding, shedding of the karmas and the net effect of their infinitude of combinations because there are two major fields. One, the cosmological studies and another is the karmic studies and regarding the karmic studies, the text Kasai Pahul, Chona Sutra, Gomatsar, Jeev Khan, Karm Khan and the canonical text like Bhagwati Sutra, Esthanang Sutra are full of karmic theory. Dr. Shah is present here who is introducing me, is working on the Panchasangra and some other karmic texts. So the studies of the karmic theory is another field in which mathematics used. Therefore, Jai Naseer giving much emphasis for the mathematics. And third one is to get the auspicious place and time for the religious ceremonies like Disha and Pratistha. It is very much important. Without muhurth, no Disha performed in Jain tradition. So this is third reason. And the fourth is to train the people in basic mathematics, Laki Ganesh, required in daily life. Therefore, we find so many texts of Pati Ganesh written by the Jain Acharya just for the sake of the common person because Jain Acharis not only write the philosophical texts, they write the texts related with the mathematics, astronomy, grammar, and architect, et cetera, also, which are useful for the common man. And unfortunately, this part was ignored. If we put forward all these texts, then we find that Jain Acharis are how much interested for the upliftment of the humankind and the society too. And to explain the Jain logic system which is used for establishment of the logical facts and reconcilment of the other's views, modern mathematical logic is available in the text of the Jain Nyaay. As you know, Prameh Kamal Martand, Astra Sahesri, Nyaaysar are the very famous texts of the Jain logic and the Jain Nyaay text cannot be studied without the appropriate knowledge. In modern mathematics, we teach the students four or five operations in the logic and they are all similar to the operations which is used in the Jain logic too. Now, when these five are the purposes, then how many texts was published so far?  But I am concentrating here non-canonical class. Non-canonical class, in this very class, which purely of mathematics, purely related with the mathematics, they have nothing to do with the philosophical details. And in this category, we find Trishatika of Sridharacharya. It is published in 1899 as a non-gen text and it's new edition with the Subedar translation appeared in 2004. The Ganesh Sar Sanghra of Mahaviracharya, first published, as I told you, in 1912, Hindi translation from Solapur 1963 and Kannada translation from Hombu's 2000 and Telugu translation from Hyderabad in 2003. Ganitilak commentary on the party Ganita of Sripati, written by Sintalab Surya, is published by Gaikwad Oriental Series in 1937. Devahar Ganit published by Madras Government in 1955 and the new translation with Kannada translation and the English translation appeared in 2012 and this translation was made by Prof. Padmavathamma, our senior colleague. A Ganesh Sar Komdi of Thakkarferu, first published from Balodha in 1961 and recently, Prof. Esar Sharma, he was initially in Aligarh Muslim University, at present he is in Germany, with his team published a new edition of Ganesh Sar Komdi of Thakkarferu and that appeared from Manohar Books in 2009. An Estang Panchawinsadika tasting Suri appeared in 2006 with its English translation by Takao Hayashi, our friend. And of course, in mathematics, it is very difficult to translate the things because for translating any Jain mathematical texts, knowledge of the Jain philosophy, knowledge of the Prakritkar Sanskrit or the language in which it is initially written or the Kannada, which is a Kannada, if it is in Kannada script, the knowledge of the Kannada script is essential and the knowledge of the mathematics too. So this is a very rare combination. Some people are expert in mathematics, they do not know the Kannada, they do not know the Prakrit, and if they know the Prakrit, then they are not well versed with the Jain philosophical term because so many philosophical terms come in the text that without knowledge of the subject matter, any mathematics, language, and the Jain philosophy, it is not possible to translate the thing. Therefore, in some cases, we get only original text. And Angul Saptati, Lila Vati of Lal Chand, Anka Prasthar, and Jyotir Gyanvidhi, these four texts only original published so far, there is no translation is available. And as my topic is newly discovered, newly discovered Jain mathematical text, I am listing here 18 such mathematical texts which are unnoticed, unpublished, and I just want to introduce here first time this list here so that the people who are capable to translate the Jain mathematical text down forward and re-earth all these things and translate it and prepare the critical addition so that the humanity will benefit with the knowledge contained in this very. The Ganesh also, Mahimoday, written by Mahimoday, and the manuscript is available in Abhay Granthagar of B. Kaner. Ganesh Sarav Anand Kavi, this is also unpublished, unknown, in the history of mathematics by Davy Digen Smith, in the history of mathematics by, history of Hindu mathematics by B. B. Dutt, or any text of history of mathematics, either published from Open University of America or from any country doesn't mention the name of these texts. Ganesh Sarav Anand Kavi, it the manuscript is available in the Sethia Library, B. Kaner, Ganesh Diyaparnati, Oriental Manuscript Club, Royal Aesthetic Society of Bengal, and Ganesh Sangra by Yalla Char, it is available in Bandarkal Oriental Research Institute of Pune, Kshetra Ganit, of Nemi Chandra. It's only one copy, available in Tholia, Upashtraya, of Ahmedabad, Kshetra Ganit, of Somtilaksuri. It's copy is available in Rajasthan Oriental Research Institute, Library, Jodhpur, and Kshetra Samas, Prakrana, Sheech and the Suri, it's copy is mentioned in the Shantinath, in the catalogue of Shantinath Jain Bhandar, Kambay, 135 number, Vrat Kshetra Samas, Vratthi Siddha Suri, and Lagu Kshetra Samas, Vratthi, Jaisalmeer Bhandar, Kshetra Samas, Ratnasekar Suri, Rory, 2536, Rory means Rajasthan, Oriental Research Institute, Library, and Kshetra Samas by Srimitalak Suri, Uttar Chhattishtika by Shridhar, in Karanja, Ganesh Shastra of Raja Ditya, Madras, Ganesh Shastra Guno Bhadra, in Karanja, Ganesha Vilas by Chandram, in the Jain Math of Mood Badri. And it is Professor Hampana, I request to Professor Hampana, it is very difficult, because they are in Kannada script. If we are unable to even note the name of the manuscript because we do not know the Kannada script. So it is very much essential that a person who is well versed in the old Kannada script come forward and there are so many manuscripts are available in the Bhandars of Mood Badri and especially in Mood Badri are in other Bhandars of Karnataka and the manuscript found in the Bhandars of Karnataka are very reliable, very old because they are all on palm leaf. And sometime they are 800 or more than, the subscribing period is more than 800. So, but in North India, we find the manuscript 200, 300, 400 years old only. But in the South India, we find the more old copies. Ganesh Sangra, Raja Ditya, that is also available in Mood Badri. Ganesh Vilas of Raja Ditya, it is also available in Mood Badri and Pudgal Bhangavratthi by Nyaay Vijay Ganesh and this copy is available in Mandarkar Role Interest Search Institute, Pune. So these 18 manuscripts are available, some of them I have seen personally, but I have not got the copy of these manuscripts. Now, I am giving you, as mentioned by Ratko Marsha, that he collected nine mathematical manuscripts. So, I have the copies of certain mathematical manuscripts which are not published. So, I am giving the details of one by one. This is Stan Panchwanshetika, the only one copy. The only one copy of Stan Panchwanshetika is available in the library of LD Institute, means Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Institute of Indology, Ahmedabad. And this is a manuscript of three folios only. Some details are given and it is written by Lungkha Gakshi, Tej Singh Suriji, and he died in 1686. Therefore, it is sure that it is written before 1686 and subscribing period is 1813. The manuscript details are given here. Now, I have published his facemiles in Arhat Vachan in 1988-89. Whenever I was doing PSD, I have got this copy of Stan Panchwanshetika, I am very much excited because nowhere the name is mentioned, therefore, and it is not possible for me because it is very typical. So, I have published facemiles only with the introduction of Tej Singh Suriji. So, about the life is case, the name of the guru, et cetera. It is a work of 25 verses on arbitrary disease. Each verse prescribes a series of calculation or an algorithm that returns any number, a positive integer with a certain constant number, say P, that is significant for Janizb. For example, in the first stanza, in the first stanza, a constant is 72 and he narrated that 72 is the life, length of life of Bhagwan Mahavir. Length of life of Bhagwan Mahavir. Similarly, he given the some life span or the time span for the establishment of Lungkagach. So, so many such type of things which are important from the history of Janizb are included, involved in 25 verses, life span of the Bhagwan Parshnath. And a lot of controversy. Professor Sagar Malji is not here, but in spite of his absence, I'm mentioning that he raised so many questions about the period of the Lord Mahavir. But almost all the people say that 527 BC is the Nirvana period of the Lord Mahavir. But in so many books published from Parshnath Vidyasham Shostan, he raised some question. Now, in this manuscript, the period of the Nirvana is mentioned 527 BC. So, this small text is important in this way that he incorporated the mathematical skill to decipher or to give the different events of history of Janizb. And it is also important from this very point of view that with the help of this, we can resolve so many controversies too. It is composed in Sardulvik credit and Vasanth Tilka meter. Last one is in Upjati. Many historical events are mentioned in this text like Vir Nirvana. It is important to resolve the controversy regarding it. Now, the second is the Janizb by Siddhara. And this is the first page of this very text. The name is Trishatika, which is popular, but the name which is mentioned in this very text is Ganesh Sar. And the details of this very manuscript, given here, the number of the manuscript, whenever I visited the Jain Mutt Moodwadri, I have found and I have taken the photocopy, photo of certain pages, and Puja Swamiji, Pandita Chariswamiji, previous one. Now, the Bhattarak, Charukirti, not which is present, but previous Bhattarak Charukirti, who is named as the Pandita Char, kindly provided as the photo of all the palm leaf manuscript, all the palm leaves of this very manuscript. And the so many copy of the Trishatika are available across the India and not only India in London too. Therefore, I am mentioning here in British Museum catalog number five to zero six and under the name Patya Ganesar, India office London, six, three, one, seven, and Sindhya Oriental Research Institute of Jain under the name Trishati and in the Karanja temple under the name two, one, one, zero. Several manuscripts of the Trishatika collected from various places laying in the department of the mathematics university of Lucknow, Lucknow. Professor Ayan Singh, Professor Ayan Singh previously, the head of the department in the Lucknow University, and he is very much interested in Jain school of mathematics. Professor Hiralal Jain inspired him to study mathematics of Dhawla and he write a very important paper, Mathematics of Dhawla, that is published with the Dhawla book four. And Jain sources for history of mathematics is a very excellent paper which is published in the warning commemorative volume also. Therefore, he is very much interested and he collected the several copies of the Trishatika and they are all preserved. I think not original copy because no one will provide the original copy. He take the photos. At that time, there was no so much facility of the photocomping. In 50s, I think photocomping method was not very popular. So he collected photo by camera and sometimes he copied by hand and they are preserved in the Department of Mathematics University of Lucknow. But the published version of Trishatika, one published by Chokham, published from Banaras in 1899 and it is edited by Sudhakar Diwedi. And this will contain only 172 shlokas only. And the Trishatika, which is recently published in 2004 with the translation of Siddhimda Acharya and published by Rasti Sankar Sansthan. This contain only the same 172 shlokas. The published version contain 65 formulas and 107 examples. So 172. These figures doesn't match with the word Trishatika. As those person who knows Sanskrit, Trishatika means 300. I have got a copy of the Ganesar from Mood Vidri and some copies are transcript of its Lucknow, from Lucknow University on the basis of it. One in large edition has been prepared which contain 305 plus 12. It is closer to word Trishatika. This is not exactly 300, but it is more closer to Trishatika. I think there will be some shepak, some shepak which can be removed on the basis of the linguistic and then a more, the in large edition have two important shlokas and they are missing here. So I am remembering, I am just, Nattva Janam Savarchit Patya, Ganatasi Sahara Mudratya, Lok Bhava Haraya Pravakshetri, Sri Dharacharya. So this is the shlok, this is the Mangalachara which is mentioned by Acharya Sri Dhar. And the second one is also the translation of Sri Dharacharya going to Lord Jin tells the substance of mathematics as extracted from the party composed by himself for the use of the people. And the second shlok is Vrashivaya Sambhavaya Panch Saptondurtha Dishaay Vimalaya Ardham Chaturdwaram Kramanaykam Chatashyate So in this shlok, Vrashivaya Sambhavaya, we know that the name of the first Tirthankar is Vrashivarath, third is the Sambhavanath and the Vimalanath. These are the names of the Tirthankar and the translation which is provided by the Sudhimnacharya or other person is not, no, the translation which is made by Ushasthana in the PhD thesis submitted in the Lucknow University is not proper. He translated Vimal as the cleaning, as a cleaning. So this type of misinterpretation was made due to the fact the person is not aware with the Jain tradition or the Jain philosophy. That's why I have mentioned that the knowledge of the Jain philosophy is very much essential for the translation of the Jain mathematical text. The person who is not acquainted with the fact that the Vrashiv is the name of the first Tirthankara, Sambhavanath is the name of the third Tirthankar, how he will translate and that's why he committed so many mistakes. And another text of the same Siddhar is I have got the three copies. One is available in Moodbuddhari but I can't read it. Therefore I am not given here but the copy is available. I confirm with the Charukirti Ji, Swamiji that the copy is available in Moodbuddhari and I have got the transcript of that very copy which is available in the Arah and that is the first copy which is Jain Siddhantbhavan Arah and the second is the copy which is found in the Elekpanala Srishti Bhandar Ujjain. The three Bhandars, Elekpanala Srishti Bhandar Mumbai Elekpanala Srishti Bhandar Ujjain and Elekpanala Srishti Bhandar Bihar Rajasthan. These three Bhandars are very rich and those people who are interested in the Jain manuscript must visit these three Bhandars because I think that I have not seen because he is very senior. Elekpanala Ji collected several manuscript, copied them and put them in the Bhandars. Therefore these Bhandars are very helpful for the study of the ancient texts like Sivanvelagala Moodbuddhari Bhandars where in Moodbuddhari Bhandar, we have got the Dhawla. In Moodbuddhari Bhandar, we have got the several copies of the text of the Acharya Kund Kund. So Jyotir Gyanvidhi and the details of the Jyotir Gyanvidhi is given here. It is a text of astronomy with the help and important thing, Jyotir Gyanvidhi is a very important text of the astronomy. The rules regarding finding the Mooddh of Pratistha is as it is quoted by Vasu Nandi Acharya in the Pratistha part. But the original text, Jyotir Gyanvidhi, is still unpublished. I have got the copy, two copies and with the help, I have prepared a list of the contain. There are 10 chapters. Sanghyaadikar, Dhruvadikar, Tithyaadikar, Sankranti, Ratthu Horathri, Pramanaadikar, Gran Ilyadikar, Gran Yuddhaadikar, Granadikar, Lagna Prakran, Gnitaadikar and Murtadikar. And this is very authentic. The people of the astronomy informed that the process of finding the Mooddh and the lagna are still in use. And Tithyaadikar, in that Tithyaadikar, the rule of the Jain astronomy of Udaya Tithi are mentioned. There is a difference in the astronomical details of Jain and Hindu text. In Hindu text, the decision of Tithi is made on the basis of how long it is in that very day. But in Jain tradition, in the morning, if the Tughari is that very Tithi, then it is accepted. So this is the difference, which is mentioned in the Bharti Jyotish by Dr. Naimi Chan Shastri Jyotishachar. So the text is very important and it should be published by any person who is well versed in the Jain astronomy or Gnita Jyotish. Now, Shatrin Shikta. Shatrin Shatika, Madhav Chandra Trayvedi. As I have mentioned that Ganesh Sar Sanghra is very important text and very popular too because it is translation in Hindi, in English, in Kannada, in Telugu and across the India, we find several copies of it. But a great mistake committed by the different persons who is engaged in this rework. The Shatrin Shatika is a work of Madhav Chandra Trayvedi but everywhere it is mentioned as an incomplete copy of the Ganesh Sar Sanghra. Here, on page number 35, which is shown here, it is mentioned, Shri Vitra Gai Nama. Chattis mein, Sakal Aat, Bhinn Aat, Bhinnajati Chai. Prakinak Das Trayrashik Char, Inta Chattis, Budh Veera Charya Ruh, Pele Ganat Vanu, Madhav Chandra Trayvediya. I have underlined this, Madhav Chandra Trayvediya. Charya Ruh, Soda Siddharadis, Soda Sanghra Mainiskum, Budhu. Budhu Shreeman, Pele Ganat, Pele Gai Gai. These two words are from the Kannada background. Therefore, the Northern Indian people cannot explain this very thing. When I visited, Sivan Belgula, Pooj Bhattarak Swamiji and Pandit Bahubali Upade, in 1981, assisted me, and he said that, Pele Ganat Maini Pehle Gai, previously known, previously declared, and Budhu means Shreeman Up, it is a word of honor only. So, whenever I have gone through the content of this very text, that these are the details of manuscript, and other manuscript, there are so many manuscripts I have found, and whenever I have examined that any manuscript by a sense saying, mentioned as an incomplete manuscript by Professor Elsie Jain, Professor Hiralal Jain, Professor A. N. Upade, mentioned these are the incomplete manuscripts of Ganesh Sar Sanghra. I have found that, of course, they have the first four chapter, but these are the Ganesh Sar Sanghra. First two four chapter are same in Shatrin Shatika, and he mentioned also that, Soda Siddharagi of Sar Sanghra, he means on the basis of the Ganesh Sar Sanghra, Mahavira Acharya, Madhav Chandra said that, I have prepared this very short Shatrin Shatika. So, this is the worst portion, Shri Vidra Gainama, this is the same thing, and the chapter of GSS, which is found in the Shatrin Shatika are following, Sanyadikar, Parikaram Vihar, Kala Savarna Vihar, Prakindak Vihar, and Thairashik Vihar. These four chapter are in the published word, then Sanyadikar and Parikram Vihar are separated. So, we find that these five chapters are the same, but in Shatrin Shatika, we find these 13 additional formulae, Varga Sankalita Nayan Sutram, Ganesh Sankalita Nayan Sutram, Ek Dwaradi Sankalita Gana Nayan Sutram, Sarva Gana Nayan Sutra Dwayam, Uttaro Tarchay Bhava. So, these 13 formulae, in the first four chapter, we find the operation of eight fundamental operation, eight fundamental operations on fractions, then Bhinnajati means six type of fractions, and Prakindak operations, and the applied questions related with the fractions, and Thairashik is well known to all of you, that regarding proportion, et cetera, Ichhakar questions, they are Thairashik. So, the 36 type of things, which is discussed in the first five chapter of the Ganeshar Sagra are taken as it is, but there are certain things which is essential, and they are related with the series. They are related with the geometry, and they are related with the two typical problems, which is discussed by the Acharya Shri Dharah, if two persons start from the same point with the two velocities, or after a period of half an hour, a person starts with a different velocity. When they will meet, this type of question is discussed in Parti Ganitbhai Shri Dharacharya, but in the first four or five chapters, up to Thairashik, there is no details of such type of questions. So, these type of questions, how solved? So, the formula for that very is given here, and under this heading, the process of solving this type of situation is given, and a person borrow certain money from any vanik, any landlord, then what will be the interest, and in how many days, even, that EMI is a very popular word at present word, equally monthly installment. So, what will be the equal monthly installment? This type of question is discussed here in So, this type of with the problems and typical problems, series and geometry are discussed, and these under these 13 chapters are the formula with illustration, all the things discussed, apart from it, illustrated certain formula, which is given in the Ganesh Sarsangra with the help of certain examples, and in the last, he has given the magic square of 34. In the Jain temples, we find the many yantras, they bear the different magic squares, 35, 25, 34, 25, 15, 64, et cetera. So, what is the use, and why they are given so much importance, I do not know and I do not want to comment on it, but here it is important that they have mentioned the magic square of 34. Now, Lokani Yoke, this is Jinnusen, as I have told you, the Jain is given much important to cosmological studies, and entire Ganetani Yoke is full of cosmological things, the details of this manuscript, and this manuscript is available in Kumbhoj Bahubali of Kolhapur, as well as in the Karanjalaad, and this written by the Achary Jinnusen. In Trilo ki Deepak of Pandit Baamdev, we find a copy of it in Delhi, written in 1386, 1386, so this text is written before that, no, 1379, 1379, and so many copies are available in Khajuraho, in Chanderi, in Ujain, and Trilog Darpan of Pandit Khadaksen, Khadaksen, nothing is new in this very script, but importance is this, it is first text of mathematics, cosmological mathematics, cosmological details, which is written in Devnagari script, and in Hindi, in Hindi, as you know, Om Namah Siddhape Aashu, Gurbhe Nama, Aathitra Lok Darpan, Hindi Bhasha Likhyate, Om Namah Siddhan, Monijan Rai, so this is in Hindi, this is its importance, so it is written in 1656, several other manuscripts are available in Sonagir, Gwalior, Sevni Malwa, Indore, Sanawat, Bina, Sevni, Shivpuri, Khargapur, et cetera, and it is the oldest book on Jain cosmology, written in Hindi, of course, cosmological books are so many old, but in Hindi it is first book, and this is the Ganesh Saraf, Hemraj of 17th century, this is the first text, on number theory, written in Hindi, and as Shri Yati Sundara, Shri Pati Sundara Sugata Vidhi, Nere Vikara Kartara, Agama Sugama Ananda Main, Suronara Pati, Suronara Pati Saratara, so in this way, it is the importance of this is in, it is written in Hindi, and we find in this that the type of number, countable, uncountable, and finite is mentioned in this very text, nothing else, in 89 shlokas, in 89 pad, it is mentioned, This classification is available, in Isthanang, in Bhagvati, in Aniyogdwar, in Jammudi Pragyapati, in Tilwe Pranati, in Trlokasar, in Jammudi Pranati, in the Anantanaanth, in the Anantanaanth, or the quantities which is added, we will find some difference, but in entire tradition, in Agambar and Shathambar, both this classification is almost 99% same, but the beauty of this, this is in Hindi, and he write, So in this way, he has illustrated thing in very simple manner, yes, and I have collected this very ministry, which is shown here, from a small town, and other known manuscripts are from Jaipur, Boondi, and a copy of the Boondi is available in Karnataka, in the Karnataka, in the Karnataka, in the Karnataka, in the Karnataka, in the Karnataka, is available in Kundukun Gyanpeet, in BurlaparU his complete mathematical texts, written in Hindi poetry, the texts deals with the unique GeHNA classification system of number, and there are some controversies about the Ganeshar Sangra, it is said that the, mentioned that X upon 0, X upon 0 is equal to X is wrong. As a man of mathematics, I'm also say, say that x upon zero is not x. It should be infinity. Any number divided by zero is infinity. But according to logical system, according to Nayak's point of view, if x thing is distributed among zero percent, what will be the change? If I have certain thing, these 100 books, and if we distribute among the zero percent, means we not distribute, then the things will remain safe. There will be no change. This is the idea. And this is ignored by M. Rangacharya. And then they have copied only the further translator, copied or followed the view of the Rangacharya. And this very Uttar Chhattisitika, which is recovered from the Bhiavar. Bhiavar, the illustration is given that yx upon zero is x, mentioned by the Mahaviracharya. So certain charges, which is one more charge, the rule for finding the area of a quadrilateral, which is mentioned by the Mahaviracharya is not correct. But the things when we see that the rule, when illustrated with the example that it is chakri achaturbhaja. So this is a typical problem. And if it is used for that very case, then the rule is correct. And if we use it for general case, then it will be not proper. So whenever we find the certain commentaries, the formula and the validity of formula can be checked in more better way. And the limitation of the formula can be explained and analyzed with the help of certain, such type of commentaries. The name is Uttar Chhattisitika, but really it is the commentary of the Ganesar Sangra made by Bhattarak Sumathi Kirtiji. And so many copy of this is available. But this copy we have recovered from Bihar, another copy is available in Udaipur, et cetera. And recently, within two, three months, I have recovered Lagu Sangrahani Sutra from Hat Pipliya, a very small town of Devas district. And Sangrahani Sutra Balabodh by Ganesh Gyan Bhandar, it is from Gyan Gacch of Sthanakvasi tradition. And this is a very old manuscript about 600 years old and it is recovered from Ratlam. Now in this case, what is our responsibility? Our responsibility to get the copies of these manuscripts from the Bhandars and print the facemiles or put them on the internet immediately so that the interested and the capable scholars may translate them and evaluate critically their content. Nowadays, people do not give easily the copy of the manuscript. And the Copyright Act creates so many problems. And National Mission for Manuscript, who collected the data of different Gyan Bhandars, is bound not to put on the website because intellectual property right came in between. Therefore, I have contacted him. Ali Sandhra is not here. She asked a question that is there is any commentary before Sint Laxuri is available in Gyan tradition? I have analyzed 8,000 datas available with National Mission for Manuscript being a coordinator for Madhya Pradesh. I have a facility to enter in these datas. And I have found that no commentary before Sint Laxuri is written on any completely mathematical text. If she will come, she's doing work on Ganesha, on Ganesh Tilaka of Sint Laxuri, tomorrow she may come. So then I will inform him. I have, she mailed me and I have said that I will try to get the answer of your question. I have found that no commentary before Sint Laxuri is available according to my knowledge. There may be some. So if any commentary, any commentary procured or found then it will be an achievement. But this is the research. And if we find, then we change our idea. And naturally, this is my responsibility to acknowledge the assistance provided in collecting so many data, especially Jain Vishwabharti, Sansthan Laddu, Gyan Sagar Science Foundation, National Mission for Manuscript, Government of India, and Kundukund Gyanpeet. All are very helpful. And with the help of these, we have collected these data which will establish a foundation for the further studies in the field of Jain School of Mathematics. The text which is recovered so far are the canonical text. A lot of work has been done. Even then, so many texts of non-canonical texts are ignored. And they have a lot of information which is useful for us. And it is our responsibility to preserve them for the new generation, for further generation. Am I right?


Matters, a show designed to bring you the best physical therapy tips and exercises to decrease pain and get you back to doing what you love. I'm your host, Christine Linders, Board Certified Orthopedic Physical Therapy Specialist. For the next few episodes, I'm going to be highlighting local entrepreneurs and business owners to find out what they've been doing to be safe and successful during this pandemic. And of course, I'll be providing instructional information and videos with stretches and exercises to help them and you resolve pain and injury. Today, we're talking with former Shamanad soccer player and owner of only the good clothing line, Kevin Anderson. Kevin created only the good clothing line early in the pandemic to try to highlight more of the positive for people during this stressful time. Also, Kevin has suffered a long time shoulder injury, so I'll show all the best physical therapy activities to resolve shoulder pain. Welcome, Kevin, and thank you for joining me on Movement Matters. How are you doing today? Good, good. Thank you for having me. Yeah, you're welcome. Thank you. Oh, good. Yeah, I appreciate you coming up. So I guess we're having flash flood warnings today. Did you have anything like that where you are? Yes, it's like pouring right now, kind of so down we're working out, but in the garage. Oh, yeah. That's right. Yeah, that's right. So, so I'm going to dive right in. I love the only the good and I know that for Valentine's Day, I was kind of spreading the love at work saying we should wear pink or red or something all week long. And my boss said, let's buy some of this. So you gave us these awesome, I don't know if everybody can see it, only the good tops, which I marveled at the OTG, I wanted to know what that was. And also how incredibly soft they are. How did you come about starting only the good? Yeah. So last year during the lockdown quarantine, I was stuck at home, not working, had a lot of time on my hand. So I thought why not start this, I had the idea of making a clothing line like for a while now, but I thought since I had so much time on my hands, I thought why not just start it up. During all the bad that was happening in the world, I decided I want to do like make like a positive outlet for myself and others, I guess. I think that's great. It's one of those. Looking on LinkedIn yesterday because my brother was doing a talk that was called turning obstacles into opportunities and I thought like what a great thing that you did was the obstacle being the pandemic, so many people being off work, it's an opportunity to work on launching a project that you wanted to work on for a long time and bring such like I'm getting goosebumps. Inspiration and highlights the good in the bad situation. So you have your shirt on now, is that right? Yep. I love that. The E is flipped and I like that because the way you have it stacked like that, it looks like almost a reflection to me in my mind's eye, right? But what was that? The flipped E was just to make it, you know, stand out, make it unique. No like deep meaning to it. Yeah, no, I think it's great. I think it's great and I know I know I love it. So I have had like ideas over the years that I wanted to manufacture something. How do you do this? Like where do you go? How do you get like a person to cut the fabric or you design what the shirt like this is a little bit of a crop top? I love it because you can wear something underneath it and that's a long sleeve shirt.  Like I'm fascinated by that. Finding the pieces, I have like find other like different manufacturers like multiple. And then in terms of like designing, I just do it myself. I like to keep it like minimal and simplistic and then printing. I have this local printer who lives actually like across the way who like prints his stuff right from his garage. So I just take my box over to him and he prints them for me. Super cool, dude. That's so what's his name? Can you say? Yeah, his name is John Jewel. If anyone ever needs to get their stuff printed, you go to him. I think that's fantastic. And you know what? I think I'm going to I'm going to write that down. Although I know I can watch the show again. I have this big idea that I've had for now. It's six years.  Like they kind of allude to how certain phrases have come over the years. And one of those was like, have a nice day. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Really face on the T-shirt is have a nice day. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, like it in so that people can remember. Oh, that's right. Pull my tummy in or oh, that's right. Have a nice day or oh, that's right. Only the good. Let's focus on only the good because how it makes us feel. Yeah, yeah, exactly. I think that's great. So how's it been going? When did you actually launch it? I started it in August. And I launched my first job in September, I believe. Oh, well, like six months ago, approximately? Yeah, yeah. Oh, great. So how still fairly new. It's new. Yeah. How do you how do you market it and how do people find out about, you know, how to get something like this from you?  I think I told me about a website. Yeah. Well, my main use, I mainly use Instagram. OK. And then, yeah, I have a website where you can purchase all the clothing. It's only the good.com. OK, that's good. And then, yeah. What's your Instagram? Instagram is also at only the good. Oh, that's good enough. OK, yeah, anybody wants to get some. It's shirts and long sleeve shirts. Shirts, yeah, hoodies, crew necks. Yeah, crop tees, regular tees. I need to do some sweats, too, in my next drop. That's good. What are you going to put the heart on there? Or are you going to put the only the good? I think the heart was just for, like, Valentine's week. I could bring it back. We'll see. I like it. I think I like the OTG, like on the sweatpants. I think that's pretty cute. I mean, we ladies like that kind of thing, you know? Yeah, yeah. Most of us. I'm thinking of, like, maybe doing, like, a cloud. Like, the meaning behind a cloud, like, means to look up. Always remember that there's clouds. Always look up. Be positive. That's just an idea. Yeah, that's a great idea. That's a great idea. So I would like to see that. So what else was I going to ask you? Let's talk a little bit about your shoulder. And I know you're not here to think you're not 100% sure how you heard it. But let's talk about your shoulder a little bit and tell everyone where it hurts, when it hurts. Yeah, so I'm pretty sure when I heard it, it was maybe two years ago. I went snowboarding and I was, like, trying to do a jump. And I landed straight on my shoulder. And I already knew from there, like, I felt like I, like, tore something. Yeah. And then from then on, it was, like, sorry, every time I would work out and stuff. And then maybe a year later, I was messing around with my friends to try to do a handstand and, like, fell and, like, hurt it again. It was, like, the same feeling. Yeah. Yeah.  Yeah, so I play men's league. So it's, like, every Sunday. I know soccer doesn't involve, like, catching it. Yeah, it doesn't really involve my shoulder as much. So I'm usually fine. But it's when I'm, like, working out, lifting weights and stuff. What about work? Like, when you're sitting working on your projects, or I know you're doing a lot of computer things, because I've wanted you to help me with my website. Yeah, I mean, yeah, I'm sitting in chair usually, like, hunched over on my laptop, which is not good. That's a perfect time. So I had Kevin come into the clinic, I don't know, maybe two weeks ago, so I could look at his shoulder and talk about the show and all that jazz. And so he sat on the table and I thought, hold on a second, let me go get my, let me get my phone. I think it's important to tell everybody. I hate to harp on posture. I really do. It was one of the things I didn't like to talk about my first 10 years. It's OK. Yeah, it's so important. Yeah, it's so important. So I said, let me take a picture and let's pull up the first photo. That's the one right there. And so I want to look at that photo long and hard because you can see how his back is rounded, his shoulder. I mean, sorry, his ear is forward of his shoulder. Everything should be aligned and he should be straight up. And when I looked it under his shirt, I could see he had some cupping marks on there. And what'd you tell me? You're like, oh, yeah, because my back hurts or something, right? Yep, my lower back is always sore. Yeah. And so you didn't have an injury, did you? On my back? Yeah. No, no, it's just always sore. So I had my girlfriend cupped it. I was trying to relieve some pain. Yeah, it's good. It's good to do that.  And it's actually supposed to be a more of a reversed curve in the low back.  And all you have to do, because sitting up straight can be exhausting for people if they're used to just slouching and hanging on the joints, hanging on the ligaments and the spine, which is why it hurts. It's the ligaments and everything that hurts. The muscles aren't doing much here. And so all you have to do is support it with a pillow or a fleece or anything, a t-shirt, and only the good t-shirt, stuff it in your low back and scoot back. And it's OK to slouch, but you have to do it the minimal part of your day. And I used to tell people when I was begging them to not slouch, like, hey, if you can sit up like this properly for 51% of your day and be in the wrong position for 49%, then you're in the green. You're no longer in the red. So strain, you've just gone over the midway part where strain is not winning. And then your pizza. And then you remember more. So how have you been with your posture?  Yeah, actually, when I'm at work now, I try to stand straight. When I'm driving to work, I always bring a jacket out. I actually do stuff behind my back now. And like, yeah, sitting at the table on my computer for sure. What did you notice? Did you notice any soreness or a different soreness while you're trying to sit up straight?  Like, what happened while you were trying to get yourself into that? When trying to keep it, keep my posture, made my back more sore. But I got to get used to it. Training your muscles to keep it up, right? Yeah, that's what it is. That's what it is. Not everybody feels more soreness, but it's one of the things that if I sit for a long time unsupported, my back muscles get sore too. So I need to remember to support myself. So I like people. When that happens to people, I like to tell them. And I wanted you to call that out if you were sore, is that it's OK. Now you're in the optimal position with gravity in the right line so your muscles can stabilize you. And they have a new job. And so that will get better. And pretty soon you'll be like, oh, that's sore. And then you sit up straight. And so there's a transition and it's not bad. So that's good that you're doing that. Yeah. I mean, yeah, it's so important now. I know a lot of my friends too, when we were doing the foam roll thing, none of us can do it. So that's right. So let's go to before we get into it, let's go to the image number one where I show some of your clothing because I want people to see a better picture. Only the good. I love that. That's great images. So it shows some of the good items. And let's go to now the first video three where we show the foam roll that Kevin's referring to that his friends couldn't. OK. So you want to stretch the peck muscle, though, because they can hold the shoulder forward. OK, thank you. You want to put your hands out into the T position and get your shoulder blades out of the way, like pinch them down, OK, good. So you're trying to stretch this. So when we were doing this earlier, you kind of lean to the right, and then lean, and you breathe to stretch this out. And then you go back to the other way, lean and breathe. But then the next one you do is angle. So go ahead and do your snow angle. So you start in the T position, and then you do angles over. And Kevin was having a hard time before we stretch this. This was coming up too high, so relax for a second. So I just went in and I released the peck minor. And here's the loosen it up. And then we did it again, and it looked kind of like you just saw right now as more even, so I decide. But one of the other things you also want to watch for is down here. I don't know if you can see this. I can put my arm under this. So he's cheating with his spine to try to get his shoulder over his head. So now bring your arms back down. So you want to make sure you anchor your ribcage down so I can't jam my fingers under there and then do that thing again. And so it doesn't go as far, but that's just the way. If you tend to slouch or you don't sit up straight, your shoulder can only go this high until you use your spine to get up here. So he's using his spine to get that last little bit. So that's number one. So I have to applaud you for having your friends try that because one of my big missions with doing the show with the content I put out there, my sucking in book, all the things that I want to do in the next year is because I want people to be more aware of these things because there's so much pain that we experienced that's not necessary. Did your friends have any pain or are they taking it on? I'm not too sure to have any pain, but when they try to put the elbows down, they couldn't do it. That's awesome. So let's go to the next video where we show trying to put the elbows down. Oh, yeah. So I also like to do external rotation at that as well to release the pec. So go ahead and externally rotate your arms. You got your elbows on the side. Throw your thumbs back and try to touch the floor. So you can see that this is up again. So it's just a spine cheating. So we're going to come back to the start position, bring those ribs down and keep your upper back onto the foam roll, and then you rotate again. And you can see it doesn't go as far. And that's just because the pec muscles that are holding the ribs to the shoulder blade are too short. And it's usually because you're slouched forward.   And you just do it repeatedly, and then you rotate back.  And pretty soon, you'll be no time in the floor like me. That's the one that you were talking about. So did you show them any stretches to do, or what was their reaction? They were surprised, because Noel, my girlfriend, can actually do it. So they thought it would be easy when they tried. Yeah, they saw that it's actually really hard. That's good that she had the demo. I tell her all the time when she works in our office. I tell her every time I walk by, I say, wow, Noel, look at your posture. It's so good. And she always says, really? Because she's not sure if he's doing it right, because she's trying to do it right. But she looks perfect. Every time I walk in the main area to grab something, I see her. I'm like, God, look at that posture. It's so good. And that kind of goes to show you you can achieve not having these tight muscles when you're not slouching. Because when you do slouch for people who haven't seen the show before, the pec minor in the front that attaches from your shoulder blade that's in the back, running through your ribs, it can be short and it holds you down like this.  That's why you saw Kevin flare the bottom part of his back. And I could put my whole, I remember I could put my whole arm in there. I could squeeze because of your T-shirt. But then I went, whoa, when I stuck it under there, it was easy. So have you been stretching? And are you able to keep your ribs down more now? Oh, yeah, for sure. I've been trying to do everything. Missed maybe like a couple of days, but I feel like doing that foam roll exercise, I feel like I'm getting progress. I feel like my arms are getting closer to the ground. Yeah, that's great. That's closer to normal. That's closer to problem. So if you don't have a foam roll because I know a lot of people don't have a foam roll and some people are older and it's not safe to get down on a foam roll because of their spine, maybe they have osteoporosis or they're just aging and it's too stiff. Let's go to the next video where you can see how to stretch in a doorway. Everybody has a doorway.  And then you do it again. Use the back foot to push yourself through the door, lift your chest, and breathe in. And that is another way in standing to open up your chest muscle.  This is one of my favorite stretches. I've had five shoulder surgeries because I grew too fast when I was probably like 10 or 11 years old. So I was 5'11 by the time I was 12 and then I played every sport in high school and then in college I played a couple sports. So I dislocated and sprained everything and that's one of my favorite stretches to not harm the shoulder. There's many ways to stretch in the doorway but where I feel like people go wrong is they let the arms go down here and then the shoulder goes forward like that. The reason why I show the T here is because it keeps your shoulder stable.  And so it's important also to put, one foot in front of the other, like I was showing you because I don't want you to hang on your chest muscles either. I want you to have the foot there so you can take the load and then lean forward only to where you stretch to get the pec. Now you have a labral tear, did that bother your shoulder dog? Did you do that stretch or were you okay? I'm a little bit, I think all that exercise is actually up. Yeah, so the labrum is a little cup that holds the ball in the socket and so Kevin has a tear in the front there, the upper part and so a lot of this stretches and exercises that we've done for him is to try to help him. You know, when he slouches the ball of the socket, the ball of the shoulder goes forward on the socket and that puts more pressure where the tear is. So his bicep tendon has to work harder to hold the ball on the socket. Similar to like a golf ball, it'll be sitting on the tee and if you pushed it forward, it'd be sitting on the edge and probably roll off but we have a bicep tendon that holds it on and we have a labrum that holds it on. So when the labrum is torn, the ball can move more forward. So we want to get him back into that perfect ear over your shoulder position so that he doesn't put strain on the area of his tear and oftentimes when you're doing some of these things, you feel the path of least resistance, which is, oh, my pecs are tight, so my shoulder's going forward. So I'm glad you're doing that.  That's fantastic. And what about strengthening? Are you doing some of the strengthening? Yeah, that's good. So let's look at the next video where we show some scapular strengthening, the shoulder blades strengthening.  Now try the T this way. Same thing, squeeze your shoulder blades, pull back. Is there pain? Perfect. He's doing it perfectly.  So this is perfect for him.  Stick him up. Yeah, that's perfect. Does it hurt? Yeah, that's good. The scapula is the quarterback of the shoulder. Are you slacking it in? Me too.  All right, that looks good. I feel a clicky. Okay, great. So these are some of the safest exercises for people to do. The shoulder blade is the quarterback of the shoulder joint. That's what I call it. I've been calling it that forever because I think of the quarterback as running the play. And when I played volleyball in college and high school, especially in college, we had this great setter, Kara. She runs the show.  And she shoots the ball either into my hand or the outside hitter hand or the right side hitter's hand. And so you're just going for it, waiting to see what she's gonna do. So I always say, you know, the setter is the quarterback in the volleyball game. The quarterback who runs the pass runs the plays like they're kind of in control of what's going on. And the shoulder blade is in control of what your shoulder does. And so if it is forward on your rib cage, like it is when we slouch, because I slouch too, I don't do it often, but if it's like that, it pushes the ball forward. And so those exercises I just showed you are some of my favorites because you have to get the foundation. We need the quarterback to know what the heck's going on and be in the right place. No one, what he's gotta do with the line. I don't even know football that well, but right? Yeah, exactly. So you've got your shoulder blade. You're working on your posture so that you can quarterback the show for your shoulder. So let's look at the next video, which works specifically on the rotator cuff, the small muscles. Go for it. We'll do five of them, do two more. Okay, now straighten your arm out. Reach forward a little bit like you're punching forward. That gets the shoulder blade off the rib cage here and then raise towards the ceiling. Good, and then come down. Just keep this forward. Yeah, that's it. To get that posterior scapula posterior cuff. At nine o'clock. Okay, let's try nose o'clock or like 10.30. Yeah, there you go. Now go up to the vertical. Good. Perfect. There should be no pain with this. Those exercises are some of the things that I have used over the years to keep my shoulder healthy so that I can do manual therapy on patients and unfortunately in October, I did hurt myself doing some manual therapy on a patient, doing some joint mobilizations to a stiff spine. And so I have to do these pretty much every day. I can take maybe one or two days off. It just depends that if I'm having a good shoulder day, but every day I have to do some of these to stabilize because mine were joint capsule reconstructions. They weren't rotator cuff injuries.  And not everybody has to do them every day, but I point out, you know, the shoulder blade and the posterior cuff because at nine o'clock being like shoulder height for a lefty where it's three o'clock the shoulder height for me working on my right. But those are kind of the ticket out of shoulder injury and pain is re-coordinating those being the smaller local stabilizing muscles and those shoulder blade exercises the I's, the T's, the W's being the global shoulder coordination muscles, the big guys, alignment. Okay, so let's look at the last video. This last video is an exercise that I kind of came up with for myself after I hurt my shoulder in October. And I love it. It is a eccentric exercise, meaning a muscle is lengthening. And this muscle that we're gonna be seeing in the next video is a power muscle. It pulls you forward when you're surfing. It pulls you down when you spike a volleyball.  That's the forced muscle. Most people are stronger pulling in than pulling out, but I was doing eccentric lengthening of that muscle to help my shoulder. And it made such a dramatic difference. So let's look at that last video. This one, it's important to retract your shoulder blade and push your shoulder blade back into the table. While you let the weight slowly fall out. Oh, excellent. So that's the last exercise that we're gonna show for the shoulder exercise. For you, Kevin, you're already doing them and anyone else that has shoulder pain, as we were using a four and a five pound weight because Kevin could do those without pain, but you might wanna use a water bottle or nothing and you just go through the movement. It's so important to not have pain when you do rotator cuff strengthening. We wanna make sure there's no pain. Pain is telling us that something's not in the right position or the ball maybe is further on the socket or you're using the wrong muscle. So I want everyone to know that, how important it is in posture, right, Kevin? Yes. So great. So as I'm sitting up straight, so is Kevin. Thank you so much, Kevin, for coming out and thanks everyone for tuning in. Please go to www.onlythegood.com or- Only the good clothing. Oh, onlythegoodclothing.com? .com, yep. And it's at only the good, is that right? At only the good clothing. Okay, so sorry about that, onlythegoodclothing.com or onlythegoodclothing on Instagram and get some of your great only the good because we all need to be reminded, yes, the pay more is just only the good or in people that were having a hard time with see only the good because we all have good and life is better when you listen to your physical therapist. Aloha everyone and thank you, Kevin. Thank you.


Hi, beautiful. I'm here today to test a new gadget. Actually, it's not new at all, but it's new to me. We're gonna try a little high tech. It's actually not that high tech. It's a detangling brush, but it's electronic and apparently it detangles your hair better than any other ordinary detangling brush. This product really feels like a gimmick and I want to be proved wrong because, listen, nobody likes pulling hair when they brush and for somebody who has no patience like me, brushing hair when it's really tangled and having such a hard time getting through it, I don't want that in my life. So today's tool, they're really needed to help me. So let's try out this detangling contraption tool. Let's try it on white hair, let's try on dry hair. Let's do all the tries. Let's do it. So there was a video on TikTok. This is where everything starts for me these days. It's like, I see something on TikTok, I need to buy it. I buy it, I try it. I don't always love it, but here's the video. This video is by Mr. Matt Loves Hair who is also a hairdresser, so I just, you know, I just had a little bit of a heightened trust through the things that he likes. Electronic detangling comb went viral. I had to have it. Annoying alert, it required a tiny screwdriver, but we're ready to go. This bun's been in all day, should be pretty tangled, but oh my. Like, there is no catching, I love. I mean, like, it just looks easy and that's not the only video I saw. There was a lot of them on TikTok. I kept scrolling and every day, another one and I kept seeing them and I said, you know what? This is my sign.  So we have it, round of applause. Bring it to the studio. And this is it. Matt was using this exact same one, but what I found out later on after buying this is that there's two different kinds. There is a Remington one and then there's this one. I don't know, I feel like this one's like the knockoff one, but I'm not really sure which one came first. I'm gonna say probably the Remington one. Here's a picture of it. It's like $4 more or something, but this is the one I've been seeing a lot. So I decided to try this one. Let's first of all judge the product, right? Okay, so we have this little like storage cap. The whole thing feels like a toy for a child, but I think this is marketed towards children who have very tangly hair. These teeth are absolutely the most interesting thing I've seen in a long time. I have no idea why they're shaped like that. There is one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Eight little Christmas trees on here. These are just supposed to be magical and detangle your hair. And I just find it hard to believe, baby. I feel like you are scary and you are scammy, but I don't know. It's not the most attractive tool, definitely not professional looking, you know, whatever. But let's turn it on, shall we? I mean, I know it's not marketed towards like professional use, I don't think.  What's up? What was that? What'd you say? How was your weekend? What? Good. So they're spinning, but they're also shaking back and forth. Now I get this. In my head, I'm like, okay, that makes sense because when you get tangles out with your hands, you're kind of like going back and forth with your fingers, right? And so if these go back and forth opposite directions at the same time, they're kind of like wiggling the hair out of the tangled mess that it's in. Now that I'm actually using this isn't making a lot more sense to me. And I'm like, and it's growing on me. I know. Should I even say that? Yeah, it's growing on me. So this thing is very simple, actually quite heavy. It takes two batteries.  Also, it looks on Amazon. I was like, what are people saying about this thing? And the reviews are interesting. There's some positive, there's some negative.  It works fantastically. It is unbelievable and I can't live without it. And there's people who are like, save your coin. This is the worst product I've ever used. We're very all over the place. The reviews are very, seems to be a little bit more positive than negative. So that's a good sign. Our first test for today is going to be on straight hair. Bring the client in. Whoa. Miss Manny Quinn. We're looking a lot alike today with this hairdo going on.  You went to a party last night?  You look busted. You look bad, I'm gonna be honest. And thanks for not brushing your hair this morning for today's experiment. So we're gonna be using this baby on one side of her head. We're gonna be also comparing this product to the one, the only, the Tangle teaser brush. I know so many of you guys have this and love it. So we'll be using this today to try and compare this electronic to the regular. Okay, well, I'm honestly weirdly excited about this. If you know me, you know I love electronic equipment. Anything that I can get that is robotic or different or state of the art or just anything, really anything that's different and includes an electronic component. I want it. I do, I really like it. I love the future. I love side by. I love just the idea of whatever. Anyways, sorry for that little, okay, Brad. So I mean, normally obviously we'd start like from the bottom and go up, but I'm gonna start from the top and go down. I know, I know what you're thinking, Brad, you're so risky. And I'm like, yeah, somebody's gotta be. Let's do it, I'm stuck. That was so bad. What the f***? I know I said that I don't really like to believe in this, but I was really hoping it was gonna like work. I've seen it work. Am I doing something wrong? Cause that just pulled the hair so much. It felt like a wide tooth comb with a loud sound attached to it that is making you not be able to hear the hair being pulled out. Am I being too critical? I don't know. It did help when I didn't try to like brush it through all the way and I kind of just like started over in small sections. But you know what? Her hair is like not that fine. It's quite coarse. This hair shouldn't be that hard to brush out. It has been through a lot though. Now that we tried this thing, we're gonna try the tangle teaser on the other side. I mean, I wouldn't start at the bottom, but we're gonna start at the top. I'm just saying that that was so much easier.  I want it to work. I mean, we're not done yet, okay? We're gonna try this on curly hair, but I've seen most people use it on wet hair rather than dry, but it says you can use it on both. So maybe the wet hair will work better. I hope so because this is not gonna cut it for Brad. Mandela, welcome second client for today. You're the lucky one.  It's really scary, by the way. So don't be alarmed when it goes on. And it's like, it'll be fine. Please work, please work. It's not working. All right, we're doing the tangle teaser now. Let's see if it works any better. They're both very similar on this textured hair. The thing with this is that it's not really brushing the hair. It's just like using a wide-tooth comb. So like even after you use the wide-tooth comb, you're probably gonna have to brush your hair because it's not really getting the small tangles out. It's getting the very big ones. So I suppose if you had like larger tangles, it would help. This is like fine. Let's not fix something that ain't broke. I'm still very interested to see what happens on wet hair.  But it's gonna do anything for me. What are you not working for me? You like literally just didn't do anything. It's like, do your job, cause I'm here doing mine. And that noise, it's like, why? That hurts my ears. Let's not do the noise anymore. Your hair is tangled now, you're welcome. But I'm gonna have to get back to your friend because she just got her hair washed and we're about to try this thing on your friend. Okay, hold on, sorry. Oh, wonderful. Your hair got more tangled when it got washed. Let's just give you a little part. I'm not gonna detangle anything yet. It looks like you literally got your hair teased. Okay, right off the bat, let's just stop working from the top down because it doesn't work. Let's start working from the bottom up and see if it's easier to detangle than just a regular detangling brush. This felt terrible and I didn't like it. This thing got how many good reviews and I'm still not liking anything about it? What is going on today? Am I doing something wrong? Is it me? By the way, I haven't used any product this entire video. Their hair has just been shampooed and conditioned. There is no product. So normally I'm gonna put some conditioning mist in there, some hydromania, but today I wanna see what really happens without product because product can make it a little bit too easy, especially with my products. Now for the tangle teaser, the classic. This is so much easier. Are you kidding? I feel like it's also pulling the hair a lot less. What am I missing? What am I missing today? Why did people like that thing? This is so annoying. Okay, so obviously this side's like really brushed out. This side you can still see there's like knots in there. Let's see if I can like brush out further. Yeah, like this is getting like some tension on it. That means there's still a little bit of knotting going on and like look how much better it looks after I brush over the other side again. I mean, this is so much easier. Y'all scamming me lately, okay? There's nothing wrong with this brush. I feel like this review is so dumb, like because there's not one thing I've liked about it so far. And usually I can like pick something that I sort of like or I can like adjust to liking. This has been like bad. I really didn't think it was gonna be horrible. Fast forward to the intro where I was like, I hate this product already. Well, thank you for helping me out. Same as Manny Quinn. We have your friend coming back. She also just got shampooed. So we have one more person to try this on and hopefully it helps with the curly hair. I know curly girls don't always love their hair super brushed out. They like their curls to clump together and give them that glorious ring like curl moment. So your hair definitely works better with the Tangle Teaser but does your friend's hair work better with this thing? You're really scary. You're scaring me today. She's like looking right in my eyes right now and I'm like, why do you look like you're coming alive? It's kind of scary. Looks like you got a rough shampoo too. I'm so sorry. But let's try this thing one more time. Hopefully something this time works or happens cause I'm about to snap this thing in half. Please do something worth my time. Please. I know you guys thought I just tried it on myself but that felt really good. These things feel really good. Oh right, we're doing an experiment. It worked kind of nice. It like made her waves. I don't know if you can see this. It made her waves really nice and clumped together. I don't know if this is better than a wide tooth comb but it did make her hair look nice. So woo! We got one thing that went right today so far. Now let's try the Tangle Teaser and let's see what happens. I felt about the same. Her waves also look good on this side. Like it feels good. I feel like there's no real difference between the two sides. Errr. I'm gonna do it. Should I break it? Imagine if I just snapped it apart. That thing is doing too much so far. It's doing too much for me. I mean, listen! Did it detangle? Yeah. Did it do a lot better on this than on anything else? It did. Is that one win for today? Possibly. All right, all right. We performed the tests. It's time to conclude my findings today. My scientific findings of the day. I don't like it. I don't get it. I don't know why people like it. I don't know anything at this point in my life. I'm confused. I am scared of what there else there is out there that people like that actually doesn't work. This costs $19.59 on Amazon. And the Remington one costs like $24, I believe. Here's the correct price. It's a waste of $20 in my opinion. This tangled teaser costs $14. It's less and it works great. I don't know why you wouldn't just use this. Like I don't know. I have nothing really good to say. These bristles don't make sense to me. I don't know why they're shaped like this and I don't know why they vibrate because it doesn't really do anything. Like maybe if they vibrated like a little more than what they do, I don't know. It just feels like it's a scam. I'm gonna go out and say it. It feels like a scam. It doesn't really do anything good for my life. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I know. Stop booing at me. Oh my God. Oh my God. This is going to go in the trash.  Yeah, because I hate it and I'll never use it again. Ooh, got that off my chest. Okay, great. Well, that was a fail. Don't buy that and just use a tangle teaser or any kind of like very soft bristle detangling brush or a wide tooth comb if your hair is curly. You know, there's other options out there. Things that actually work. If you're not already subscribed, well, you should do that. You can click the subscribe button right down below as well as the like button and the bell icon to be notified every time I post a new video. Here's my phone number. Woo! It's really connected to my phone and yes, I do see some of your messages and yes, I'll be replying to a few of you guys if you text me right now. This will also keep you notified every time I post a new video. Make sure you guys follow me everywhere else. 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This would look amazing in your hair plus with the length and your natural darker hair growing in. I just feel like it'll give you an amazing, fabulous look. I wanna see your hair super glossy, super shiny, really long and dark. I would love that. It looks so good. So good luck if you end up doing it. That's all for today, guys. Thank you so much for watching. Don't forget to live your extra life and I'll see you next time. Bye, guys.