Ganittilakam Savrtuttikam

SR No.: 003174
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hiralal R Kapadia
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra
Publication Year: 1937
Total Pages: 214
Language: Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 11 MB

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INTRODUCTION
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s'iromanz" of Bhaskarācārya who completed this work at the age of 368 (i. e. in A. D. 1150). This Bhāskarācārya has composed also a commentary called Vāsanābhāsya on Grahaganitā. dhyāya and Golādhyāya, the two sections of Siddhāntas'iromani. Besides these, he is an author of Karanakutuhala.
That many mathematicians have exerted themselves in commenting upon Līlāvatī* will be clear from the following list of commentaries mentioned by Dixit on p. 252:
(1) Ganitāmrtasāgara by Gangādhara composed in
about 1420 A. D. (2) Vịtti by Moșadeva composed not later than
1473 A. D." (3) Udāharana by Vires'vara. (4) Amrtakūpikā by Sūryabhatta composed in 1541 A.D. (5) Līlāvatībhūsana by Dhanes'vara." (6) Ganitāmrtalaharī by Rāmakrşņa composed in
1688 A. D.
(7) Līlāvatīvivrti by Munisvara alias Vişyarūpa. Tris'atī AND ITS AUTHOR S'RĪDHARA
This work well-known as Tris'atikā and referred to by Simhatilaka Sūrī as Tris'atī in his commentary (pp. 4,9 and 39) on Ganitatilaka, is a Pāţiganita composed by Sridhara in
1 This is published by M. Jha in Pandit, new series, vols. 30-33. For the study of this work, Cāngadeva, a descendent of Bhāskarācärya, founded a school in A, D, 1206. Cf. Epigraphica Indica vol. I, p. 338 ff. 2 Compare what he has said in Golādhyāya:
"रसगुणपूर्वमही१०३६समशकनृपसमयेऽभवन्समोत्पत्तिः।
रसगुण३६वर्षेण मया सिद्धान्तशिरोमणी रचितः ।। ५८॥" 3 This work also known as Grahāgamakutuhala and Brahmatulya is an astronomical treatise in ten chapters. It was composed in A. D. 1183. Cf. Duff's Chronology (p. 139), Thibaut's Astronomeie, Astrologie und Mathematik p. 60, Dixit pp. 246-254, Winternitz, Geschichte III, p. 564, Bhandarkar Report for 1882-83, pp. 26–27, I, O. No. 2925, Bodlin Catalogue No. 1530 etc.
4 This was translated into Persian in A. D. 1587 as ordered by the Mogal Emperor Akbar.
5 There is a Ms. at B. B. R. A. S. dated 1473. See its "Descriptive Catalogue of Samskrta and Präkrta MSS." vol. I, p. 91.
6 Herein are quoted Ganitakaumudi (1357 A. D.) and Laksmīdāsamis'ra (1501 A. D.).
7 He has quoted Amrtakūpikā (Ganitāmstaküpikā).