A History of the Kerala School of Hindu Astronomy (in Perspective) c10.s8.41

c10.s8.41

Nilakaṇṭha II, about whom nothing more is known, is the author of a comprehensive treatise on arithmetic, entitled *Kaṇakkusāram*, couched in *maṇipravālam* verses in Malayalam and a commentary thereon. The author claims to have based his work on Sanskrit texts like the *Līlāvatī* and old Malayalam texts like *Kaṇakkatikāram*. It is noteworthy that, besides the general mathematical procedures, this work deals also with practices relating to local grain transactions, housebuilding, weighing of gold and silver, land tenure, masonry, ground measurement etc.⁵