Ganitsara Sangrah

Author(s): Mahaviracharya, A N Upadhye, Hiralal Jain, L C Jain
Publisher: Jain Sanskriti Samrakshak Sangh

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FOREWORD
I have had the privilege of going through this edition of Mahāvīrāchārya's Ganitasāra-Samgraha, prepared with critical annotations and an introduction by Prof. L. C. Jain of the Department of Mathematics, Govt. Science College, Jabalpur, under the general editorship of the renowned orientalists, Dr. A. N. Upadhye and Dr. H. L. Jain.
Apart from the extreme care which the learned editor has exercised in the choice of technical expressions and terminology in Hindi throughout this edition, what struck me the most is his sympathetic and erudite understanding of the highly intricate interactions among various schools of mathematical thought that must have gone into the making of a background for a classic like the Ganitasāra-Samgraha. And this, I am sure, places the present edition on a distinctly higher-than-ever-attained plane of excellence.
I hail the appearance of this work of Prof. L. C. Jain in the world of learning.
JABALPUR November 4, 1963
T. PATI Head of the Department of Mathematics
University of Jabalpur