A History of the Kerala School of Hindu Astronomy (in Perspective) c10.s5.55

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years will be cut off from the number of the current year, thereby providing maximum ease in calculation, the *śodhyabdas* selected would be as near as possible to the date of the composition of a work, which date would, naturally, be just ahead of the largest *śodhya*. In the case of the *Agaṇitagrahacāra* in question, the *śodhyābdas*, with A. D. 1418 as the latest among them, agrees, surprisingly, with the date of Mādhava. This goes to confirm that in the present *Agaṇitagrahacāra* we have a hitherto unidentified work of Mādhava, viz. his *Agaṇitapañcāṅga* which is mentioned in the said astronomical document. Again, it seems quite possible that Mādhava had composed a comprehensive treatise on astronomy and mathematics, which yet remains to be identified and which may be supposed to contain the numerous single and groups of verses enunciating computational procedures, theorems and formulae which are quoted as Mādhava's by later writers. Possibly, Mādhava wrote also a work named *Golavāda*¹ which gained for him the appellation *Golavid* by later scholars.²