There is a Sanskrit verse that is also a number. The Sadratnamālā (Kerala, 1819) states π to seventeen digits — 3.14159265358979324 — by composing a metrical line whose consonants, read through the kaṭapayādi cipher, ARE the digits. The value was computed by hand with the Kerala school's own infinite series, the lineage running back to Mādhava four centuries earlier. Europe had more digits by 1819; nobody else had them as a line of poetry that scans.