Satya's blog - Thief of Time: Mandala

pterry mentions something called a "Mandala", which sounds a lot like the Hindi/Marathi word "Mandal". The way he describes it, it sounds like a computer that re-caculates the universe... much like the computer described at http://www.disenchanted.com/dis/technology/strange-attractor.html (referenced at 2004/02/24#strangeattractor ).