Thirty-two squares, one knight, two hymns.
Vedānta Deśika's 32-syllable śloka, square by square. Verse 929 sits on the board. Press Step and watch verse 930 assemble in the order the knight lands.
The tour as a table
Move numbers in board order. The knight starts at the top-left corner and ends at the third square of the last row. It is an open tour: no closed knight's tour exists on a 4×8 board. Starting from the corner, it is the unique knight's path whose cell sequence spells verse 930, which is how this reconstruction was verified.
Nasal marks shift with sandhi between the two readings (daṃ reads as da, raṅga as raṃ ga), which is normal in the tradition and does not affect the tour.
| 1 | 30 | 9 | 20 | 3 | 24 | 11 | 26 |
| 16 | 19 | 2 | 29 | 10 | 27 | 4 | 23 |
| 31 | 8 | 17 | 14 | 21 | 6 | 25 | 12 |
| 18 | 15 | 32 | 7 | 28 | 13 | 22 | 5 |
The form is a useful model for specification and encoding: one sequence of syllables carries several readings at once, each valid under its own rule. That is a dense, multi-constraint encoding written a thousand years before anyone had a word for it. Rudraṭa described the figure in the ninth century; Euler analysed the general tour in 1759.