Mathematics in Ancient and Medieval India c4.s4.t8.7

c4.s4.t8.7

Whish³ and the editors of the published *Yuktibhāṣā* suggested on the basis of a verse available at the end of a manuscript that the author of the work was Brahmadatta and the date of the work was 1750 A.D. Sarma¹ has shown that the passage contains a word *alekhi* which does not mean 'composed' but 'transcribed' or 'copied' Hence Brahmadatta is a transcriber and the time of his doing so was 1750 A.D.