Jyotihshastra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c5.s1.1

c5.s1.1

The earliest text of this genre that we have is the first chapter of Āryabhaṭa’s A entitled Gaṇitapāda.² In thirty-two verses he deals succinctly with a number of selected topics: the decimal place-value system of numbers; squares and cubes; square-roots and cube-roots; the areas of triangles, rectangles, trapezia, and circles, and the volume of a pyramid;³ chords and sines of arcs of a circle; π;