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Bharatiya Jyotihshastra (History of Indian Astronomy), translated by R. V. Vaidya v2.c12.s2.t85.3

Bhāratīya Jyotiḥśāstra (History of Indian Astronomy), translated by R. V. Vaidya v2.c12.s2.t85.3

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v2.c12.s2.t85.3

He is a Ṛgvedī Citpāvan Brāhmaṇa belonging to Gārgya gotra. He is working as a teacher in the Education Department in this province since 1874 A.D. He has been the Head Master of the English High School, at Bagalkot, for the last several years. He received most of his education at Belgaon. His father also was a good astronomer. He had rendered into Sanskrit Keropant's Planetary Tables, but it was not printed. For the last five or six generations the family had been living at Paiṭhaṇ. But Bāpū left the place for Nargundās and later on shifted to Rāmdurgās. He had the patronage of the Chief of that State.