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Vol. XXIII, No. 1 for this was simple : He had not written Sanskrit. And who in the North would read Kannada or Telugu ? This is one of the misfor. tunes of a great country that is made up of people speaking different languages. In Europe, Latin served in the past as the common language, even as Sanskrit did in India, and English does in our own times. If aad when we do replace English perhaps we must bear the fate of Mahavira in mind.
References : 1. The work was translated into English by M. Rangacharya in 1912. 2. E. T. Bell, “The Development of Mathematics", (1945), p. 175. 3. D. E Smith, "History of Mathematics", (Vol I) (1951), p. 164.
--Dr. Nagendra Kr. Singh 19 A, Poket-E G.T.B. Enclave Delhi-110092
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