Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit, Series A v1.c7.90

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ʿAṬĀʾ ALLĀH RUSHDĪ IBN AḤMAD I NĀDIR (fl. 1634/35) The son of Aḥmad i miʿmār i Lāhawrī and elder brother of Luṭf Allāh and Nūr Allāh, ʿAṭāʾ Allāh made a Persian translation of the *Bījagaṇita* of Bhāskara (b. 1114), entitled *Bij ganit* or *Tarjamah i Bij ganit*, which he dedicated to the emperor Shāh Jahān (1628-1659) in A.H. 1044 = A.D. 1634/35. He also wrote a *Khulāṣah i rāz* on arithmetic, algebra, and mensuration. For the manuscripts of the *Tarjamah i Bij ganit* see C. A. Storey, *Persian Literature*, vol. 2, pt. 1, London 1958, p. 5: for those of the *Khulāṣah i rāz*, see ibid. pp. 15-16. An English translation of the *Tarjamah i Bij ganit* by E. Strachey with notes by S. Davis was published in London, 1813.