Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c13.13

c13.13

That Bhascara’s text (meaning the metrical rules and examples, apart from the interspersed gloss) had continued unaltered from the period of the compilation of his work until the age of the commentaries now current, is apparent from the care with which they have noticed its various readings, and the little actual importance of these variations; joined to the consideration, that earlier commentaries, including the author’s own explanatory annotations of his text, were extant, and lay before them for consultation and reference. Those earlier commentaries are occasionally cited by name: particularly the *Ganita-caumudi*, which is repeatedly quoted by more than one of the scholiasts.⁵