Jyotihshastra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c5.s1.72

c5.s1.72

Sometime after Bhāskara one Devarāja⁵⁵ composed a Kuṭṭākāraśiromaṇi,⁵⁶ on which he wrote his own ṭīkā, entitled Mahālakṣmīmuktāvalī. His objective was to expand upon the pulverizer as propounded by Āryabhaṭa. Also subsequent to Bhāskara Rāmacandra wrote a Kautukalīlāvatī.⁵⁷ In this work, after the paribhāṣā, come problems of plane and solid geometry and estimates of the quantities of various substances in differently shaped containers; involved are, among other things, specific gravities. Traditional mathematics was continued in the sixteenth century by the Bījādhyāya of Jñānarāja, who wrote the SSJ in 1503 and was the father of Sūryadāsa, the commentator on Bhāskara’s L and BG; and by the Gaṇitamañjarī of Jñānarāja’s great nephew, Gaṇeśa.⁵⁸ Neither of these works has been published.