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# טעמי הלוחות

Taʿamei ha-Luḥot (introduction to the tables of Ibn al-Muthannā)

Ibn Ezra's Hebrew version of Ibn al-Muthannā's commentary on al-Khwārizmī's tables opens with the story, as Ibn Ezra tells it, of the Indian sage (Kanka) who came to Baghdad under al-Saffāḥ/al-Manṣūr and taught Indian astronomy and numerals, translated by Jacob b. Sheraʾ.

- **Language:** Hebrew
- **Date:** 1160 CE
- **Author:** [Avraham ibn ʿEzra](https://indike.org/pramana/person/abraham-ibn-ezra)
- **Text:** not yet digitised (catalogue entry)

## Mentions

- [Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.siddhanta.early.brahmasphutasiddhanta)

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