[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [A History of the Kerala School of Hindu Astronomy (in Perspective)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarma-1972) › c10.s8.41 # A History of the Kerala School of Hindu Astronomy (in Perspective) c10.s8.41 A History of the Kerala School of Hindu Astronomy (in Perspective) c10.s8.41 - **Language:** English ### [c10.s8.41](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarma-1972.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 - [Previous: c10.s8.40](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarma-1972.c10.s8.40) - [Next: c10.s8.42](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarma-1972.c10.s8.42) - [Up: c10.s8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarma-1972.c10.s8) ## Linked texts (2) - [Līlāvaī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.prakrit.lilavai) — Kouhala, Māhārāṣṭrī Prakrit - [Kaṇakkusāram](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.kerala.bhasha.kanakkusaram) — Nīlakaṇṭha Dīkṣita, Malayalam --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarma-1972.c10.s8.41](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarma-1972.c10.s8.41) · Pramāṇa