The Astronomical Observatories of Jai Singh c17.7

c17.7

¹ There is a tale that Jai Singh was reproached with the statement that the Pandits, who pretended to great learning, were entirely ignorant of Arabic scholarship and he produced Jagannāth, who translated from the Arabic the two great works—Euclid's *Elements* and Ptolemy's *Almagest*. See Sudhakara Dvivedi's *Ganakatarangini*, p. 102 f.