{"id":3495,"date":"2010-04-25T14:52:58","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T18:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/?p=3495"},"modified":"2010-04-25T14:52:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-25T18:52:58","slug":"as-a-tribute-to-pathani-samanta-khandapada-in-nayagarh-district-to-have-an-observatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/3495","title":{"rendered":"As a tribute to Pathani Samanta, Khandapada in Nayagarh district to have an observatory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following is an excerpt from <a href=\"http:\/\/dailypioneer.com\/251695\/Pathani-Samanta-observatory-at-Khandapada-proposed.html\" target=\"_self\">a tathya.in report in Pioneer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span id=\"ctl00_MasterHomeCPH_lblStoryContent\">As a royal tribute to the  illustrious astronomer of Odisha, Samanta Chandrasekhar, popularly  known as Pathani Samanta, the State Government has decided to set up an  observatory, a science park and an information centre at the place of  his birth and work, Khandapada. The Pathani Samanta Planetarium  Governing Body has decided to set up a huge complex as memorial to the  renowned astronomer.<\/p>\n<p>Pathani Samanta made his astronomical  research during the period 1835 to 1904 without any knowledge of  telescopes, binoculars and other modern instruments. His magnum opus  Siddhanta Darpan in Sanskrit, which was published in 1899, was highly  acclaimed by Western scientific journals Nature and Knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; The  observatory proposed at Khandapada would entail Rs 10 crore, he said.<\/p>\n<p>A  science park would need 25 acres of land and its project cost would be  Rs 6.50 crore, which would be borne by State Government.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span id=\"ctl00_MasterHomeCPH_lblStoryContent\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/adsabs.harvard.edu\/full\/1998BASI...26...33N\" target=\"_self\">article here has a long biography on the naked eye astronomer Samanta Chandra Sekhar<\/a>, who is otherwise known as Pathani Samanta.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following is an excerpt from a tathya.in report in Pioneer. As a royal tribute to the illustrious astronomer of Odisha, Samanta Chandrasekhar, popularly known as Pathani Samanta, the State Government has decided to set up an observatory, a science park and an information centre at the place of his birth and work, Khandapada. The Pathani [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,412,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-district-nayagarha","category-orissa-personalities","category-tourism-and-shopping-in-orissa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}