Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c13.81
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c13.81
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1. *Goladhyaya*; or lecture on the sphere. c.II.§ 56. *As. Res.* vol. 12. p.214.
2. *As. Res. Ibid.*
3. Though the matter be introductory, the preliminary treatises on arithmetic and algebra may have been added subsequently, as is hinted by one of the commentators of the astronomical part. (*Vartic.*) The order there intimated places them after the computation of planets, but before the treatise on spherics; which contains the date.
4. Note A. (Notes A to O referred to in some of the subsequent footnotes are not reproduced here: Editor)
5. For example, by Suryadasa, under *Lilavati*, § 74; and still more frequently by Ranganatha.
6. *Vija-Ganita*, § 218.
7. *Ibid.* § 131.
8. *Ibid.* § 142.
9. *Vija-Ganita* Ch.5. Note of Suryadasa. Also *Vija-Ganita* § 174; and *Lil.* § 246 ad finem.
10. For example, under *Lil.* Ch.11.
11. Note G.
12. Note B.
13. *Vasana-bhashya* by Chaturveda Prithudaca Swami, son of Madhusudana, on the *Brahma-siddhanta*; (or sometimes *Bramhasphuta-siddhanta*).
14. They often quote from the *Brahma-siddhanta* after premising a reference to Brahmegupta.
15. Note C.
16. Note D.
17. *As. Res.* 2. 225.
18. *Ibid.* 9. 242.
19. Note E.
20. *As. Res.* 6. 586.
21. *Supra.*
22. *As. Res.* 9. 329.
23. *Ibid.* 12. p. 215.
24. Note F.
25. Ganesa, a distinguished mathematician and astronomer.
26. Sur. on *Vija-ganita* § 128.
27. Note G.
Linked texts (3)
- Līlāvaī — Kouhala, Māhārāṣṭrī Prakrit
- Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta — Brahmagupta, Sanskrit
- Bījagaṇita — Bhāskara II, Sanskrit