Ganittilakam Savrtuttikam

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

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INTRODUCTION
than Mañjula', the author of Laghumānasa3, a karana-grantha (932 A. D.) The exact date of S'ripati is not yet known; but it is certain that he is in no way posterior to Bhaskaracārya and that he wrote his Siddhantas'ekhara in about 1040 A. D. Herein he has criticized the unique doctrines of the Jainas regarding their conception about two suns, two moons, a double set of stars and planets and the pyramidal shape of Meru.*
WORKS
(1) Dhikotida-karana (S'āka 961).
(2) Jyautiṣaratnamālā alias S'rīpatiratnamālā.
(3) Siddhantas'ekhara.
(4) Daivajñavallabha.
(5) Jatakapaddhati.
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1 He has been referred to and even followed especially in his method of finding the precessional rate, by the great astronomer and mathematician Bhaskara.
2 Thibaut observes in his introduction (p. VIII) to Pañcasiddhāntikā that this is a compendious astronomical treatise which does not set forth the theory of the subject at a comparative length as the siddhantas do, but only supplies a set of concise and often only approximately correct rules which suffice for the speedy performance of all the more important astronomical calculations.
3 About him Spottiswoode has observed that he is the most celebrated Indian astronomer. His birth-date is 1114 A. D. At the age of 36, he composed Siddhantas'iromaņi divided into two parts viz. Golādhyāya and Grahagaṇitädhyāya and having Paṭīganița and Bījaganita as its appendices. He composed at the age of 69, Karanakutuhala, a karana-grantha. Bijopanaya which is a short treatise on the corrections of the moon's place and which is quoted in Vasanābhāṣya is also attributed to him by some but this is doubted by Mr. Sukumara Ranjan Das, who is at best prepared to consider it as an appendix to Siddhantas'iromani.
4 See Maxmüller's "History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature" and "Indian Historical Quarterly" vol. VII, p. 140.
5 Madhava (S'āka 1185) has mentioned S'ridhara in his commentary on S'ripati's Ratnamālā.
6 Jatakakarmapaddhati of S'ripati has been commented upon in Samvat 1673 by Sumatiharṣa Gani, pupil of Harṣaratna, pupil of Udayarāja Gaṇi.
7 S'ripati is quoted by Rama (17th century) in his Kautukacintamaṇī, See "Descriptive Catalogue of Samskṛta and Prakṛta MSS". (B. B. R. A. S.) vol. I. He is also quoted by Kes'ava in his Jātakapaddhati. Ibid., p. 117.