The scientific explanation of Nadi is a time scale and is described as follows:
Ancient Tamil culture had its own way of slicing Time and is detailed below:
- 1/60th of sec is called Para
- 1/60th of Para is called Thathpara – 1/(60)2 of a sec
- 1/60th of Thathpara is Libtham – 1/(60)3 of a sec
- 1/60th of Libtham is Vilibtham – 1/(60)4 of a sec
- 1/60th of Vilibtham is Kalai – 1/(60)5 of a sec
- 1/60th of Kalai is Vigalai – 1/(60)6 of a sec
- 1/60th of Vigalai is Nadi – 1/(60)7 of a sec
1/60th of Vigalai is Nadi – 1/(60)7 of a secSo Nadi is 1/(60)7 of a second which is 3.572 x e-13 (.0000000000003572). One of the sages by the name “Agasthiya” was able to decipher events happening at that speed by virtue of his meditative powers. This power made Sage Agasthiya see the journey of souls accurately which was then documented in a palm leaf by his disciples. They used a special tool, a stylus of sorts to inscribe the writings on the dried palm leaf. This was all done by hand and the ancient Tamil writings were in a poetic form with continuous script without any space between words. The reading of this Tamil script needs adequate training and understanding of the poetic writings.
