A History of the Kerala School of Hindu Astronomy (in Perspective) c10.s9.3

c10.s9.3

⁶ See, for instance, the innovations adopted in the *Gaṇitanirṇaya* of Purushottaman Namputiri, (*op. cit.*), such as fourteen of the Western corrections for the moon, a revision of the traditional astronomical constants in the light of the modern value for the mean motion of the Sun, sine-tables prepared on the basis of the ellipse instead of the circle and revised mnemonics for computations.