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# A History of the Kerala School of Hindu Astronomy (in Perspective) c10.s8.165

A History of the Kerala School of Hindu Astronomy (in Perspective) c10.s8.165

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### [c10.s8.165](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarma-1972.c10.s8.165)

Among the renowned scholars and patrons of literature produced by the scholarly royal house of Koṭungallūr, near Cochin, Goda Varmā, better known as Vidvān Iḷaya Tampurān, occupies a place in the front rank. He was a versatile scholar and has written profusely, both in Sanskrit and in Malayalam. In astronomy he has produced erudite commentaries in Sanskrit on the \*Gaṇitādhyāya\* (\*Bhāskarīya-gaṇita\*) and the \*Golādhyāya\* of the \*Siddhāntaśiromaṇi\* of Bhāskara II.²

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## Cites (1)

- [Siddhāntaśiromaṇi](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.siddhanta.early.siddhantasiromani) — Bhāskara II, Sanskrit

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