Ganittilakam Savrtuttikam

Author(s): Hiralal R Kapadia
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra

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INTRODUCTION
550 A. D.) and works of the like nature may be mentioned en passant, though they do not deal exclusively with Mathematics.
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The only treatise on ganita by a Jaina scholar which has seen the light of the day is Ganitasarasangraha of Mahāvīra. Dr. B. Datta has written a special article pertaining to it. It is entitled as "On Mahavira's solutions of Rational Triangles and Quadrilaterals" and is published in the Bulletin of the Calcutta Mathematical Society (vol. XX, 1928-29).
Angulasaptati by Municandra Suri, though small in size, beautifully elucidates the use of the three types of the angulas, etc. It is composed in 70 verses in Prakrit and is published in A. D. 1918 as the 3rd work of Atma-Kamala-Jaina-library by the secretaries of S'ri Mahavira Jaina Sabha, Cambay.
Besides these works in Präkrit and Sanskrit there are some works of Jaina authorship, written in Kanarese language. For instance, Sridharācārya (1049 A. D.) has composed in verses Jātakatilaka, a work of an astrological nature.' Räjäditya (1120 A. D.) is an author of six works: (1) Vyavaharaganita (in mixed prose and poetry), (2) Kṣetraga. nita (in poetry), (3) Vyavahararatna, (4) Lilavati, (5) Jainaganitasütrodaharana and (6) Citrahasuge.
While explaining Mathematical topics the various Jaine commentators have quoted from Karaṇabhāvanas or Karana gathas, wnich give in a nut-shell the Mathematical calculations Dr. B. Dutta considers them as independent works but : Jaina saint informs me that they are mere rules forming a par of the curni of Jambudvipaprajñapti. Whatever may be the correct notion, it is certain that they, too, point to the existe nce of some Mathematical work or works lying in an unpubli shed condition or destroyed.
It should be remembered that these are not the onl
" ससमयपरसमयागमलिविगणियच्छंद सद्दनिम्माओ ।
दस विदिसासु जस्स य अणुओगो भ्रमइ अणुवमो जसपडहो || ७ ||१
1. See "Karnataka Kavi Charitre" (vol. I, p. 75) by Narasinhacharya. 2. Ibid p. 122.
3. I am indebted to Prof. T. K. Tukol, M. A., LL. B, for his having supplie me with this information but it has not been possible for me to verify it genuineness.