Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Of Hinduism and holidays

I heard from various sources that Hindus worship 33 crore gods. That is 33,00,00,000.
Allowing for avatars and my ignorance, the number of mutually exclusive gods will be not less than, say, 15 crore. If this is true, it is very likely that every day of the year corresponds to a god's birthday. This allows, on an average, 4.1 lakh gods to born each day, which is a fair deal. And given that Indians celebrate gods' birthdays by not going to work, every day of the year should be a holiday!

Comrades, ransack ancient literature, plunder the Internet, make the database that will liberate us for life.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

It is very likely that every day of the year corresponds to a god's birthday.

That is an understatement if there ever was one. The probability that there's a day of the year (other than 29 February) on which no god's birthday falls, assuming that each day of the year is equally likely to be the birthday of a random god, cannot be more than 2.4 * 10^-178600. (For 29 Feb it is no more than 9.5 * 10^-44605.)

Surely you can take this teeny-weeny bit of liberty and say that every day of the year corresponds to a god's birthday?

Akshay Rajagopalan said...

@ashok

Good. I needed your investigative zeal to corroborate my claims.

The Furobiker said...

waow... sabki satak gayi hai.. saalon class karlo ... zada chutti mat manao..