Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c13.17

c13.17

The commentary is a perpetual one; successively quoting at length each verse of the text; proceeding to the interpretation of it, word by word; and subjoining elucidations and remarks: and its colophon, at the close of each chapter, gives the title of the work and name of the author.¹³ Now the name, which is there given, Chaturveda Prithudaca Swami, is that of a celebrated scholiast of Brahmegupta, frequently cited as such by the commentators of Bhascara and by other astronomical writers: and the title of the work, *Brahma-siddhanta*, or sometimes *Brahmasphuta-siddhanta*, corresponds, in the shorter form, to the known title of Brahmegupta’s treatise in the usual references to it by Bhascara’s commentators;¹⁴ and answers, in the longer form, to the designation of it, as indicated in an introductory couplet which is quoted from Brahmegupta by Lacshmidasa, a scholiast of Bhascara.15