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%I #15 Dec 24 2018 06:22:30
%S 7,12,1,14,2,13,8,11,16,3,10,5,9,6,15,4
%N A 4 x 4 magic square.
%C The magic sum is 34. See Figure 1.2 on page 10 in Maya Ahmed's PhD thesis. This magic square is found in a Jaina inscription of the twelfth or thirteenth century in the city of Khajuraho, India (as mentioned in Maya Ahmed's thesis).
%C The inscription is in the Parsvanatha Temple and may date back to its construction, estimated at 954. - _Charles R Greathouse IV_, Dec 24 2018
%H Maya Mohsin Ahmed, <a href="http://arXiv.org/abs/math/0405476">Algebraic combinatorics of magic squares</a>, PhD thesis UC Davis, arXiv:math/0405476 [math.CO], 2004.
%H W. S. Andrews, <a href="http://archive.org/stream/MagicSquaresAndCubes_754/Andrews-MagicSquaresAndCubes1917#page/n131/mode/2up">Magic Squares And Cubes</a>, 1917, pp. 124-126.
%H Rainer Typke, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2152085cab.png">Magic Square at the Parsvanatha Temple, Khajuraho, Eastern Group</a>, 2008.
%e The magic square is:
%e 7 12 1 14
%e 2 13 8 11
%e 16 3 10 5
%e 9 6 15 4
%Y Cf. A126654, A126653, A126652, A126651, A126650, A126649, A126648, A126647.
%K fini,full,nonn,tabf
%O 1,1
%A _Parthasarathy Nambi_, Feb 12 2007
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