Book Title: Ganitasara Sangraha of Mahavira
Author(s): Rangacharya
Publisher: Rangacharya

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________________ PREFACE. Soon after I was appointed Professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology in the Presidency College at Madras, and in that capacity took charge of the office of the Curator of the Government Oriental Manuscripts Library, the late Mr. G. H. Stuart, who was then the Director of Public Instruction, asked me to find out if in the Manuscripts Library in my charge there was any.work of value capable of throwing now light on the history of Hindu mathematics, and to publish it, if found, with an English translation and with such notes as were necessary for the elucidation of its contents. Accordingly the mathequatical manu. scripts in the Library were examined with this object in view ; and the examination revealed the existence of three incomplete manuscripts of Mahāvīrācārya's Ganita-sära-sangraha. A cursory perusal of these manu 8 made the value of this work evident in relation to the history of Hindu Mathematica. The late Mr. G. ·H. Stuart's interest in working out this history was so great that, when the existence of the manuscripts and the historical value of the work were brought to his notice, he at once urged me to try to procure other manuscripts and to do all else that was necessary for its proper publication. He gave me much advice and encouragement in the early stages of my endeavour to publish it; and I can well guess how it would bave gladdened his heart to see the work published in the form he desired. It has been to me a source of scripts ma

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