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# A History of the Kerala School of Hindu Astronomy (in Perspective) c7.s2.7

A History of the Kerala School of Hindu Astronomy (in Perspective) c7.s2.7

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### [c7.s2.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarma-1972.c7.s2.7)

‘Cogitating thus, and painstakingly studying the ancient texts and observing well the true positions of the planets according to the spherics, I am composing a manual on astronomy for the twice-born disciples who requested for a knowledge of the true (positions of the) planets’. (6).

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