Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c13.18

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Remarking this coincidence, the translator proceeded to collate, with the text and commentary, numerous quotations from both, which he found in Bhascara’s writings or in those of his expositors. The result confirmed the indication, and established the identity of both text and scholia as Brahmegupta’s treatise, and the gloss of Prithudaca. The authenticity of this *Brahma-siddhanta* is further confirmed by numerous quotations in the commentary of Bhattotpala on the *sanhita* of Varahamihira: as the quotations from the *Brahma-siddhanta* in that commentary, (which is the work of an author who flourished eight hundred and fifty years ago) are verified in the copy under consideration. A few instances of both will suffice; and cannot fail to produce conviction.16