Report On Search For Sanskrit MSS Year 1882 1883

SR No.: 020607
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: R G Bhandarkar
Publisher: Government Central Book Depot
Publication Year: 1884
Total Pages: 235
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 10 MB

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on a certain day in a certain year, (Nos. 293–295). This year or epoch in the present work is, as is well
known, 1105 Saka or 1183 A.D., Date of the work,
work, and Bhaskarâchârya was born Saka 1105.
in 1036 Saka as he himself tells us in the Siddhậntaśiromaņi which he wrote in the thirty-sixth year of his age. The methods given in Karaņas differ from those given in the Siddhântas in this, that while the latter use as an epoch the beginning of a Kalpa or a fabulous period of an extremely long duration, and consequently involve tedious multiplications and divisions, the former take their start from a certain year of the Saka era as an epoch and are less cumbrous. The astronomical data are the same as those given in the Siddhântas. Our author's Karaņa follows the data given in the Brah
Brohmatul ra Brahmatulya.
m asiddhânta and is hence called
" Brahmatulya or "like the Brahma." There are three other copies of the Karana with the commentaries of Sodhala, Padmanabha, and Samkarakavi, the pupil of Harsharatna, (Nos. 296298). Our manuscript of the first was transcribed in 1519 Samvat or 1403 A.D., i.e., 280 years after the work had been composed by Bhâskarâchârya. The last commentator exemplifies the author's rules by Sarkarkavi's
making actual calculations for
date, Saka 1541.
date, the Saka year 1541 or 1619
A.D., which therefore is the date of his work. Samkarakavi mentions Śrîpati, Brahmarka, and Keśava to be noticed below; (R., Appen
Brahmatulyatippana, dix II). No. 344 is an anonySaka 1523.
mous work containing calcula
tions according to Bhaskara's Khetakasiddhi, Saka rules for the Saka year 1523. 1500.
No. 303 is entitled Khețakasiddhi or methods of astronomical calculations and its epoch year is 1500 Saka or 1578 A.D. The author's name is Dinakara who also wrote a