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Mathematics in Ancient and Medieval India c4.s4.t14: Paṇḍit Jagannāth (c. 1657 to 1750 A.D.)

Mathematics in Ancient and Medieval India c4.s4.t14

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Paṇḍit Jagannāth (c. 1657 to 1750 A.D.)

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Paṇḍit Jagannāth worked under the patronage of king, Jayasiṁha, who was well known for his interest in the study of astronomy and mathematics. He came to Jayasiṁha at the age of twenty. He was a scholar in Sanskrit and acquired a great proficiency in both Persian and Arabic languages in a very short time². He translated Euclid's *Elements* from an Arabian version, *Taḥrīr-u-Uqlidas* by Nasīra'd-Dīn aṭ-ṭūsī ( 1201 A.D. ) under the name *Rekhāgaṇita*³.

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² vide *Rekhāgaṇita*, edited by Kamalāśaṅkara; notes on Jagannāth in the Preface.

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³ The *Rekhāgaṇita*, two volumes. Ed. with a critical preface, introduction and notes in English by Kamalāśaṅkara Trivedi, *Bombay Sanskrit Series* nos. 61-62, Bombay 1901-2.

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His other works are: *Siddhāntasamrāṭ*¹, a Sanskrit version of Ptolemy's *Almagest*, and *Siddhāntasārvabhau-ma* containing partly *Samrāṭsiddhānta* and partly Hindu astronomy.

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¹ Edited by Ramswarup Sarma, Indian Institute of Astronomical and Sanskrit Research, 3 vols, New Delhi, 1967.

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