A History of the Kerala School of Hindu Astronomy (in Perspective) c10.s5.56

c10.s5.56

¹ A matter of melancholy interest might be mentioned here, at least for record. The presence of a work entitled *Golavāda* written in continuation of Mādhava's *Veṇvāroha* in a manuscript preserved in the Eḷankunnappuzha Naṭakkal Kovilakam, near Ernakulam, raised in the present writer the hope that that could, possibly, be a thitherto unknown work of Mādhava. When, however, he proceeded to the said Kovilakam and, with a good deal of persuasion, caused the wooden box containing the family collection of manuscripts to be opened, he found that all the manuscripts in that box, including that of *Golavāda*, had been completely eaten away by white ants. For further details, see his note on the subject in the *Mathrubhumi W*, (Kozhikode), 17.6.1956, p. 4.