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Mathematics in Ancient and Medieval India c4.s4.t13: Kamalākara (c. 1616 to 1700 A.D.)

Mathematics in Ancient and Medieval India c4.s4.t13

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Kamalākara (c. 1616 to 1700 A.D.)

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Kamalākara, the son of Nṛsiṃha Daivajña was the younger brother as well as disciple of Divākara Daivajña. He was a Mahārāṣṭrīya Brāhmaṇa. He composed his work, *Siddhāntatattvaviveka*⁴ in 1580

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⁴ Ed. with notes by Sudhākara Dvivedi and Muralidhara Jhā, Benares Sanskrit Series, Benares, 1885; Ed. with a comm. by Gaṅgādhara Miśra Śarmā, Lucknow, 1929, etc.

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Śaka era i. e., 1658 A.D. He was a follower of *Sūrya-siddhānta* and tried to refute some of the views of Bhāskara II and Munīśvara. Though *Siddhāntatattva-viveka* is mainly a work on astronomy, he made contribution to trigonometry by giving several correct relations between chords and its corresponding arcs in his *jyotpatti* section of Spaṣṭādhyāya. His other works are : *Grahagolatattva*, *Grahasāraṇī*, *Kairāśyudāharaṇa*, a commentary on the Bhāskarācārya's *Līlāvatī*, *Manoramā*, a commentary on the *Grahalāghava* of Gaṇeśa Daivajña, *Sauravasanā*, a commentary on the *Sūryasiddhānta*, and *Śeṣavasanā*, a supplement to the author's *Siddhāntatattvaviveka*¹

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¹ For details of editions vide p. 49.

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In the concluding verse of his *Siddhāntatattvaviveka*, he admitted that his ancestors lived in the village Golagrāma near the river Godāvarī.

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