Mathematics in Ancient and Medieval India c4.s3.t12: Śrīpati (c. 1039 A.D.)
Mathematics in Ancient and Medieval India c4.s3.t12
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Śrīpati (c. 1039 A.D.)
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Śrīpati was a Jaina astronomer cum mathematician. He wrote *Gaṇitatilaka*¹, *Siddhāntaśekhara*² ( in 1039 A D. ) and *Bījagaṇita* besides five other works on astronomy and astrology³. The *Gaṇitatilaka* is devoted exclusively to arithmetic. The *Siddhāntaśekhara*, a work mainly on astronomy in twenty chapters, deals with algebra in two chapters namely *vyaktagaṇitādhyāya* ( ch. 13 ) and *avyaktagaṇitādhyāya* ( ch. 14 ). But his *Bījagaṇita* is now lost. Though he is the author of so many works, very little is known about his life. Probably he was the son of Nāgadeva and was a native of Rohinikhaṇḍa⁴. Like his predecessors, he discussed in his *Gaṇitatilaka* the eight fundamental operations and dealt with permutation, combination, proportion, notational places and many other things of relative interst.
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¹ Ed. with introduction by H. R. Kapadia with comm. of Siṃhatilaka Suri. *Gaekwad Oriental Series* no. 78, Baroda, 1937.
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² Ed. by Babūaji Miśra, 2 vols. Calcutta University, 1936, and 1947.
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³ *Dhikoṭikaraṇa*, *Jyautiṣaratnamālā*, *Dhruvamānasa*, *Jātakapaddhati* and *Daivajñavallabha*.
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⁴ Vide. *Gaṇitatilaka* introduction, by H. R. Kapadia.
Linked texts (3)
- Bījagaṇita — Bhāskara II, Sanskrit
- Siddhāntaśekhara — Śrīpati, Sanskrit
- Gaṇitatilaka — Śrīpati, Sanskrit