Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit, Series A v2.c10.815

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A Cittapāvana Brāhmaṇa of the Kauśikagotra, Kṛṣṇa was born at Vāī on 1 September 1831. He was educated in Poona, and taught at various schools in Mahārāṣṭra and Sind from 1864 on. He translated into Marāṭhī the Grahalāghava of Gaṇeśa (b. 1507) in Śaka 1778 = A.D. 1866 (see the list of editions of the Grahalāghava); his other works, not all of which are published, include a Marāṭhī translation of the first part of the Bījagaṇita of Bhāskara (b. 1114) in 1854 and an Aṅkagaṇita in Sindhī in 1869. See S. B. Dikshit [1896] 305–306.